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cùirt
cùirt
Scottish Gaelic
Noun
cùirt f (genitive singular cùirte, plural cùirtean)
- court (royal, law)
- palace
- privilege, honour
- area, yard
- circus
- used contemptuously
- B'e sin a' chùirt. ― I don't care; what does it matter?; that's a heat.
- frame of a sieve or riddle
Derived terms
- taigh-cùirte (“courthouse”)
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
- “cuirt” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.