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amharc

Irish

Noun

amharc m ‎(genitive singular amhairc, nominative plural amhairc)

verbal noun of amharc
sight
1. faculty of sight, vision
2. range of vision
  - 1899, Franz Nikolaus Finck, Die araner mundart, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, vol. II, p. 1:
    tā afr̥k ə ŋar ʒō.
    conventional orthography: Tá amharc i ngearr dhó.
    He is short-sighted.
3. look
  (Proverb) Is fearr amharc amháin romhat ná dhá amharc i do dhiaidh.‎ ― Foresight is better than hindsight.
4. view, prospect
5. thing seen
6. notable sight

Declension

Declension of amharc

First declension

Bare forms:

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	amharc	amhairc
Vocative	a amhairc	a amharca
Genitive	amhairc	amharc
Dative	amharc	amhairc

Forms with the definite article:

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	an t-amharc	na hamhairc
Genitive	an amhairc	na n-amharc
Dative	leis an amharc don amharc	leis na hamhairc

Derived terms

Terms derived from amharc

amharcach ‎(“sightly, pleasing to behold”, adjective)
amharc an lae m ‎(“dawn”)
amharc daoine m, amharc súl de dhaoine m ‎(“a sight, a great number, of people”)
amharc déshúileach m ‎(“binocular vision”)
amharc dúbailte m ‎(“double vision”)
amharclann f ‎(“theatre”)

amharc mara m ‎(“seascape”)
amharc na súl m ‎(“eyesight”)
amharc tíre m ‎(“landscape”)
ar amharc ‎(“in sight”)
as amharc ‎(“out of sight”)

cianamharc m ‎(“distant view”)
claonamharc m ‎(“sidelong look; squint”)
gar-amharc m ‎(“close-up view”)
in amharc súl ‎(“in appearance”)
téigh as amharc ‎(“disappear”, verb)

Etymology 2

From Old Irish amarcaid ‎(“sees, beholds, views”, verb), from amarc (see above).

Verb

amharc ‎(present analytic amharcann, future analytic amharcfaidh, verbal noun amharc, past participle amharctha)

(transitive, intransitive) look, see
Bhí sé ag amharc amach as an bhfuinneog nuair a bhí mise ag dul thart.‎
He was looking out the window when I went past.

Conjugation

First Conjugation (B)

		singular			plural			relative	autonomous
		first	second	third	first	second	third	relative	autonomous
indicative	present	amharcaim	amharcann tú; amharcair^†	amharcann sé, sí	amharcaimid	amharcann sibh	amharcann siad; amharcaid^†	a amharcann; a amharcas / a n-amharcann; a n-amharcas	amharctar
	past	d'amharc mé; d'amharcas / amharc mé‡; amharcas‡	d'amharc tú; d'amharcais / amharc tú‡; amharcais‡	d'amharc sé, sí / amharc sé, sí‡	d'amharcamar; d'amharc muid / amharcamar‡; amharc muid‡	d'amharc sibh; d'amharcabhair / amharc sibh‡; amharcabhair‡	d'amharc siad; d'amharcadar / amharc siad; amharcadar‡	a d'amharc / ar amharc*	amharcadh; hamharcadh^†
	past habitual	d'amharcainn / amharcainn‡	d'amharctá / amharctá‡	d'amharcadh sé, sí / amharcadh sé, sí‡	d'amharcaimis; d'amharcadh muid / amharcaimis‡; amharcadh muid‡	d'amharcadh sibh / amharcadh sibh‡	d'amharcaidís; d'amharcadh siad / amharcaidís‡; amharcadh siad‡	a d'amharcadh; ar amharcadh*	d'amharctaí / amharctaí‡
	future	amharcfaidh mé; amharcfad	amharcfaidh tú; amharcfair^†	amharcfaidh sé, sí	amharcfaimid; amharcfaidh muid	amharcfaidh sibh	amharcfaidh siad; amharcfaid^†	a amharcfaidh; a amharcfas / a n-amharcfaidh; a n-amharcfas	amharcfar
conditional		d'amharcfainn / amharcfainn‡	d'amharcfá / amharcfá‡	d'amharcfadh sé, sí / amharcfadh sé, sí‡	d'amharcfaimis; d'amharcfadh muid / amharcfaimis‡; amharcfadh muid‡	d'amharcfadh sibh / amharcfadh sibh‡	d'amharcfaidís; d'amharcfadh siad / amharcfaidís‡; amharcfadh siad‡	a d'amharcfadh / ar amharcfadh*	d'amharcfaí / amharcfaí‡
subjunctive	present	go n-amharca mé; go n-amharcad^†	go n-amharca tú; go n-amharcair^†	go n-amharca sé, sí	go n-amharcaimid; go n-amharca muid	go n-amharca sibh	go n-amharca siad; go n-amharcaid^†	—	go n-amharctar
subjunctive	past	dá n-amharcainn	dá n-amharctá	dá n-amharcadh sé, sí	dá n-amharcaimis; dá n-amharcadh muid	dá n-amharcadh sibh	dá n-amharcaidís; dá n-amharcadh siad	—	dá n-amharctaí
imperative		amharcaim	amharc	amharcadh sé, sí	amharcaimis	amharcaigí; amharcaidh^†	amharcaidís	—	amharctar
verbal noun		amharc
past participle		amharctha

*Indirect relative
† Dialect form
‡Dependent form

Derived terms

amharcaíl f ‎(“(act of) peering; groping”)

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
amharc	n-amharc	hamharc	t-amharc
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

"amharc" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
“aṁarc” in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, Irish Texts Society, 1927, by Patrick S. Dinneen.
“1 amarc” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
“amarcaid” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish amarc m ‎(“act of looking at; faculty of sight; object of sight, view, prospect”).

Noun

amharc m ‎(genitive singular amhairc, plural amhairc)

verbal noun of amhairc
seeing, viewing
sight, view
vizzy or sight on a gun
view, sight, observation
beholding
inspecting
look, appearance
fault

Synonyms

sealladh

Derived terms

References

Faclair Gàidhlig Dwelly Air Loidhne, Dwelly, Edward (1911), Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan/The Illustrated [Scottish] Gaelic-English Dictionary (10th ed.), Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, ISBN 0 901771 92 9
“1 amarc” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.

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amharc

amharc

Irish

Noun

Declension

Derived terms

Etymology 2

Verb

Conjugation

Derived terms

Mutation

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