Galway

English

Anglicization of Irish Gaillimh, of uncertain meaning, unrelated to Galloway.

Galway

county in Ireland

Arabic: مُقَاطَعَة غَالْوَايْ‎ f (muqāṭaʿa(t) ḡālwāy)
Breton: kontelezh Gaillimh f
Bulgarian: Голуей m (Goluej), Каунти Голуей m (Kaunti Goluej)
Chinese:
Cantonese: 加列維郡 (gaa¹ lit⁶ wai⁴ gwan⁶)

Mandarin: 戈爾韋郡／戈尔韦郡 (Gē'ěrwéi jùn)
Esperanto: graflando Galivo
Finnish: Galway
French: Comté de Galway m
Georgian: გოლუეი (goluei), გოლუეის საგრაფო (golueis sagrapo)
German: Galway (de) n, County Galway n
Hebrew: מָחוֹז גולוויי‎ m (makhóz gólvey)
Hindi: काउंटी गॉलवे m (kāuṇṭī gŏlve)
Irish: Gaillimh f, Contae na Gaillimhe m
Italian: Galway (it) m, contea di Galway f
Japanese: ゴールウェイ州 (ゴールウェイしゅう, Gōruwei-shū)
Korean: 골웨이 주 (Gorwei ju)
Latin: Comitātus Gallivēnsis m
Lithuanian: Golvėjaus grafystė f
Macedonian: Го́лвеј m (Gólvej)
Manx: Galliu f, Coontae ny Galliu f
Persian: شهرستان گالوی‎ (šahrestân-e gâlve)
Polish: Galway (pl) m
Russian: Го́луэй m (Góluej)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: Голвеј m

Roman: Galway m
Ukrainian: Го́лвей m (Hólvej), Го́луей m (Hóluej)

city in Ireland

Galway (plural Galways)

Short for Galway hooker.
- 1884, James Douglas Jerrold Kelley, American Yachts: Their Clubs and Races (page 161)
  In England there are Brighton Beach boats, Centre-board sloops, Pollywogs, Lough Erne yachts, Unas, New Brighton sailing-boats, yachts of the Norfolk Broads, Itchen, Clyde sailing and Keystone boats, Penzance luggers, Cobbles, Galways, Hookers and Pookhauns […]

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