banais

See also: bañáis

Irish

Noun

banais f (genitive singular banaise, nominative plural banaiseacha)

  1. Alternative form of bainis (“wedding; wedding-feast”)

Declension
Declension of banais

Second declension

Bare forms

Case Singular Plural
Nominative banais banaisa
Vocative a bhanais a bhanaisa
Genitive banaise banais
Dative banais banaisa

Forms with the definite article

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an bhanais na banaisa
Genitive na banaise na mbanais
Dative leis an mbanais

don bhanais

 leis na banaisa

Mutation
Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
banais bhanais mbanais
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

Portuguese

Adjective

banais

  1. plural of banal

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish banais (“marriage-feast, wedding”), from Proto-Celtic *banowessā, equivalent to Old Irish ben (“woman, wife”) + feis (“festival”).

Noun

banais f (genitive singular bainnse, plural bainnsean)

  1. wedding
    Rud a thachras tric aig banais. ― Something that often happens at a wedding.

Synonyms

References
  • Edward Dwelly (1911), “banais”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
  • G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “banais”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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