tarbh

From Old Irish tarb,^[1] from Proto-Celtic *tarwos (“bull”) (compare Welsh tarw, Cornish tarow, Breton tarv, Gaulish taruos), from Proto-Indo-European *táwros (“bull”) (compare Latin taurus).

• (Munster) IPA^(key): /ˈt̪ˠɑɾˠəvˠ/^[2]
• (Connacht, Ulster) IPA^(key): /ˈt̪ˠaɾˠuː/^[3]

tarbh m (genitive singular tairbh, nominative plural tairbh)

1. bull (adult male bovine)
2. bull (adult male of other large mammal species)

   tarbh róin ― bull seal

• Alternative plurals:
  • toirbh (Cois Fharraige)
  • tuirbh

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
tarbh	tharbh	dtarbh
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “tarbh”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “tarbh”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “tarbh”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024

From Old Irish tarb, from Proto-Celtic *tarwos (“bull”) (compare Welsh tarw, Cornish tarow, Breton tarv, Gaulish taruos), from Proto-Indo-European *táwros (“bull”) (compare Latin taurus).

• IPA^(key): [t̪ʰaɾav]

tarbh m (genitive singular tairbh, plural tairbh)

1. bull

• Edward Dwelly (1911) “tarbh”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎^[1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “tarb”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language