Derived fromMiddle Irishablaid(“to die”), regularised fromOld Irishat·baill(“to die”). Perhaps influenced by Middle Irishapach(“corpse, remains, entrails”) (seeabach).

ablach m (genitive singularablaigh,nominative pluralablaigh)

1. carcass;carrion
2. hulk(of person)

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ablach (genitive singular masculineablaigh,genitive singular feminineablaí,pluralablacha,comparativeablaí)

1. fat,soft

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “ablach”, inFoclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm,→ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “2 ablach (‘carcass, carrion’)”, ineDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959), “ablach”, inEnglish-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “ablach”, inNew English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge,2013–2025

• abloch,ablack,ablich,aiblich

Akin toOld Irishablach(“carcass, corpse, carrion”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑbləx/
• (Northern Scots)IPA^(key): /ˈɑblɪç/
• (Doric Scots)IPA^(key): /ˈeblɪç/

ablach (pluralablachs)

1. A mangledcarcass or deadbody.
2. Abody not necessarily dead but maimed or reduced to a pitiable condition.
3. Aninsignificant orcontemptible person through lack ofsize ordefect ofwill orintellect.
4. Anuntidy orclumsy person.
5. (humorous)child
6. Anobjectdefective through lack of size.

• “ablach,n.”, inThe Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh:Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present,→OCLC.

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