saothar

Irish

Noun

saothar m (genitive singular saothair, nominative plural saothair)

labour (work); toil, exertion; stress, effort
gan saothar ― without effort
work (product of labour)
1. thing done, achievement
2. works; literary or artistic composition
(music) opus
(music, literature) composition, piece
job of destruction
(literary) travail, pangs of childbirth
evacuation of bowels; excrement
(as verbal noun, ag ~) labouring, toiling

Declension

Declension of saothar

First declension

Bare forms:

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	saothar	saothair
Vocative	a shaothair	a shaothara
Genitive	saothair	saothar
Dative	saothar	saothair

Forms with the definite article:

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	an saothar	na saothair
Genitive	an tsaothair	na saothar
Dative	leis an saothar don saothar	leis na saothair

Synonyms

(labour): obair
(composition, piece): dréacht, píosa

Derived terms

Terms derived from saothar

ardsaothar (“magnum opus”)
bileog shaothair f (“worksheet”)
saothar allamuigh (“field-work”)
saothar anála (“panting, laboured breathing”)
saothar an bháis (“death-throes”)
saothar an lae (“the daily grind”)
saothar bradáin (“process of spawning of salmon”)
saothar coimisiúnaithe (“commission”) (commissioned work)
saothar coirp (“manpower”) (physical effort)

saothar díreach (“direct labour”) (workers concerned with production)
saothar ealaíne (“art, artwork, work of art”)
saothar ficsin (“work of fiction”)
saothar foirne (“team effort”)
saothar in aisce (“lost cause, labour in vain”)
saothar indíreach (“indirect labour”)
saothar láimhe (“handicraft”)
saotharlann f (“laboratory”)
saothar múrealaíne (“wall painting”)

saothar seanré (“period piece”)
saothar taifeadta (“discography”) (all someone's recordings)
saothar teibí (“abstract, abstraction”, noun) (artwork)
saothrach (“laborious, toilsome; laboured; hard-working, industrious”, adjective)
saothraí m (“labourer, toiler; earner, bread-winner”)
saothraigh (“labour, toil; work, till, cultivate”, verb)
saothrán m (“culture”) (of product)
scoil saothair f (“industrial school”)

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
saothar	shaothar after an, tsaothar	not applicable
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

"saothar" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
“effort” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.
“exertion” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.
“labour” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.
“opus” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.
“piece” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.
“toil” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.
“work” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.

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