aibreog

Irish

Etymology

From English apricot, apricock, abrecock (assimilated to the suffix -eog, from dialectal Catalan abrecoc, abercoc, variants of standard albercoc, from Arabic الْبَرْقُوق (al-barqūq, plums), from Byzantine Greek βερικοκκία (berikokkía, apricot tree), from Ancient Greek πραικόκιον (praikókion), from Late Latin (persica) praecocia (literally (peaches) which ripen early), (mālum) praecoquum (literally (apple) which ripens early).

Noun

aibreog f (genitive singular aibreoige, nominative plural aibreoga)

  1. apricot

Declension

Mutation

Lua error: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

References

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