Scottish Gaelic

Alternative forms

• (archaic) focalair

Noun

facladair m ‎(genitive singular facladair, plural facladairean)

1. lexicographer
   • 1781, anon., 'Oran caisiomachd do dh'albainn, ann aghaidh an olla shasgunnaich' [Glasgow] Glas-gho : [s.n.], 5.

     O mosgladh Mic a Ghāedheil, a's nochdadh mic gu lāetheil, Do'n Fhocalair ro Strāiceil, Nach fuigheal fochaid dh'ā Sinn.‎

     Let us awake Highlanders, and let us show daily, to the haughty Lexicographer, we will not be his ridicule.

2. (computing) word processor

Synonyms

• (lexicographer): faclairiche

Related terms

• faclair ‎(“dictionary”)
• faclaireachd ‎(“lexicography”)