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bósan

bósan

Irish

Noun

bósan m ‎(genitive singular bósain, nominative plural bósain)

(nautical) boatswain

Declension

Declension of bósan

First declension

Bare forms:

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	bósan	bósain
Vocative	a bhósain	a bhósana
Genitive	bósain	bósan
Dative	bósan	bósain

Forms with the definite article:

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	an bósan	na bósain
Genitive	an bhósain	na mbósan
Dative	leis an mbósan don bhósan	leis na bósain

Synonyms

maor loinge

Derived terms

feadóg bósain ‎(“boatswain's pipe”)
máta bosáin ‎(“boatswain's mate”)

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
bósan	bhósan	mbósan
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

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