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bábhún

bábhún

Irish

Alternative forms

bán

Noun

bábhún m ‎(genitive singular bábhúin, nominative plural bábhúin)

(architecture) walled enclosure, bawn; bailey
bulwark, breakwater

Declension

Declension of bábhún

First declension

Bare forms:

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	bábhún	bábhúin
Vocative	a bhábhúin	a bhábhúna
Genitive	bábhúin	bábhún
Dative	bábhún	bábhúin

Forms with the definite article:

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	an bábhún	na bábhúin
Genitive	an bhábhúin	na mbábhún
Dative	leis an mbábhún don bhábhún	leis na bábhúin

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
bábhún	bhábhún	mbábhún
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

"bábhún" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.