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Etymology

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Pronunciation

Rhymes:-ɑː(ɹ)b

Noun

darb (pluraldarbs)

"He Resolves Not to Smoke" (USA, 1915)

(slang) Somethingbeautiful, acharm, apeach.
- 1915,He Resolves Not to Smoke:
  Ain't it a darb?
- 1931, Courtney Ryley Cooper,Circus Day,page263:
  “Boss,” he exclaimed, “it's adarb.”
  “It's more than that,” I cut in, “it′s a wonder. It′s a masterpiece.[…]”
- 1934,Story, volume 4,page35:
  ‘My new bird is adarb,’ he says, ‘only four months old and he′s got a roll and a chop the size of your arm. Never heard a young bird sing like that.’
- 1941,Amazing Stories, Ziff-Davis, Volume 15, Issues 1-6,page 21,
  You can figure for yourself what adarb of a setup that was for us seven hundred professional killers!
- 1958, Alexander King, chapter 21, inMine Enemy Grows Older, New York: Simon and Schuster:
  I looked at the snapshot of his sister for a long while, and I suddenly pitied the Hallmark people, and all the other sterile unfortunates who are manufacturing and consuming ready-made greeting cards, because, even among their choicest items, among their most expensive numbers, they had never been able to corner a Christmas angel that deserved to hold a candle to little Tessa Pavlic. She was adarb.
  "She's very beautiful," I said, handing him back his picture.
(Australia, slang) Acigarette.

Synonyms

(cigarette):death stick,durrie

Anagrams

Bard,bard,drab,BARD,brad,Brad

Irish

Alternative forms

dar b’(superseded)

Particle

darb (present/future copular form used before a vowel,form used before a consonantdar)

to/for which/whom is
an feardarb aithnid mé ―the man who knows me
from which/whom is

Derived terms

darb ainm(“(who is) called, named”)

Related terms

Irish copular forms
simple copular forms
		affirmative	negative	interrogative	negative interrogative
present/future
main clause		is	ní	an	nach
relative clause	direct	is	nach	–
relative clause	indirect	ar,arb^v		–
other subordinate clause		gur,gurb^v		an	nach
past/conditional
main clause		ba,b’^v	níor,níorbh^v	ar,arbh^v	nár,nárbh^v
relative clause	direct	ba,ab^v	nár,nárbh^v	–
relative clause	indirect	ar,arbh^v		–
other subordinate clause		gur,gurbh^v		ar,arbh^v	nár,nárbh^v
present subjunctive
–		gura,gurab^v	nára,nárab^v	–

compound copular forms
base word		present/future		past/conditional
cá		cár,cárb^v		cár,cárbh^v
cé		cér,cérb^v		cér,cérbh^v
dá		–		dá mba,dá mb’^v
de/do		dar,darb^v		dar,darbh^v
faoi		faoinar,faoinarb^v		faoinar,faoinarbh^v
i		inar,inarb^v		inar,inarbh^v
le		lenar,lenarb^v		lenar,lenarbh^v
má		más		mába,máb’^v
mura		mura,murab^v		murar,murarbh^v
ó(preposition)		ónar,ónarb^v		ónar,ónarbh^v
ó(conjunction)		ós		óba,ób’^v
trí		trínar,trínarb^v		trínar,trínarbh^v

^v Used before vowel sounds

Irish preposition contractions
	contracted with							copular forms
base form	an(“the sg”)	na(“the pl”)	mo(“my”)	do(“your”)	a(“his, her, their; which (present)”)	ár(“our”)	ar(“which (past)”)	before a consonant	before a vowel
base form	an(“the sg”)	na(“the pl”)	mo(“my”)	do(“your”)	a(“his, her, their; which (present)”)	ár(“our”)	ar(“which (past)”)	before a consonant	present/future	past/conditional
de(“from”)	den	de na desna*	de mo dem*	de do ded,det	dá	dár		dar	darb	darbh
do(“to, for”)	don	do na dosna*	do mo dom*	do do dod,dot	dá	dár		dar	darb	darbh
faoi(“under, about”)	faoin	faoi na	faoi mo	faoi do	faoina	faoinár	faoinar		faoinarb	faoinarbh
i(“in”)	sa,san	sna	i mo im*	i do id,it	ina	inár	inar		inarb	inarbh
le(“with”)	leis an	leis na	le mo lem*	le do led,let	lena	lenár	lenar		lenarb	lenarbh
ó(“from, since”)	ón	ó na ósna*	ó mo óm*	ó do ód,ót	óna	ónár	ónar		ónarb	ónarbh
trí(“through”)	tríd an	trí na	trí mo	trí do	trína	trínár	trínar		trínarb	trínarbh

*dialectal

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