caidreabh

Scottish Gaelic

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Irish coitreb (“fellowship, company, association”).

Noun

caidreabh m (genitive singular caidreibh, no plural)

  1. fellowship, partnership
  2. familiarity, friendship, acquaintance, intercourse
  3. vicinity
  4. discourse
  5. the embrace, the bosom
  6. commerce
  7. assemblage
  8. inclination

Derived terms

  • caidreamh tionnsgalach (“industrial relations”)
  • caidreamhach (“social”, adjective)

References

  • Faclair Gàidhlig Dwelly Air Loidhne, Dwelly, Edward (1911), Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan/The Illustrated [Scottish] Gaelic-English Dictionary (10th ed.), Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
  • “coitreb” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
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