crobh

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish crob.

Noun

crobh m, f (genitive singular croibh or croibhe, nominative plural croibh or crobha)

hand; clawed foot, paw; talons

Declension

Declension of crobh

First declension

Bare forms:

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	crobh	croibh
Vocative	a chroibh	a chrobha
Genitive	croibh	crobh
Dative	crobh	croibh

Forms with the definite article:

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	an crobh	na croibh
Genitive	an chroibh	na gcrobh
Dative	leis an gcrobh don chrobh	leis na croibh

Alternative declension

Declension of crobh

Second declension

Bare forms

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	crobh	crobha
Vocative	a chrobh	a chrobha
Genitive	croibhe	crobh
Dative	crobh	crobha

Forms with the definite article

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	an chrobh	na crobha
Genitive	na croibhe	na gcrobh
Dative	leis an gcrobh don chrobh	leis na crobha

Derived terms

Terms derived from crobh

crobhán (“small hand, paw”)
crobhchrág (“dogclutch”)
crobh dearg, crobh geal, crobh gioblach, crobh gorm (“(kinds of) crane's-bill”)
crobh fola (“geranium”)

crobhlasc (“pear-switch”)
crobhneart (“strength of hand”)
crobhóg (“tiny hand”)

crobh préacháin (“crowfoot”)
crobhscaoilte (“open-handed”, adjective)
crobhspíce (“dog-spike”)

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
crobh	chrobh	gcrobh
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

"crobh" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
“claw” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.
“crob” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.

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