🇬🇧 en ga 🇮🇪

leaf noun

  /liːf/
  • (publishing, bookbinding, advertising) A sheet of a book, magazine, etc (consisting of two pages, one on each face of the leaf).
duilleog, bileog
  • (plural leaves or leafs) A moveable panel, e.g. of a bridge or door, originally one that hinged but now also applied to other forms of movement.
comhla
  • A sheet of any substance beaten or rolled until very thin.
duilleog

leave verb

  /liv/ , /liːv/
  • (transitive) To cause or allow (something) to remain as available; to refrain from taking (something) away; to stop short of consuming or otherwise depleting (something) entirely.
  • (transitive) To depart from; to end one's connection or affiliation with.
  • (transitive) To end one's membership in (a group); to terminate one's affiliation with (an organization); to stop participating in (a project).
  • (transitive) To transfer responsibility or attention of (something) (to someone); to stop being concerned with.
fág
  • (transitive) To transfer possession of after death.
fág, tiomnaigh
  • (transitive) To give (something) to someone; to deliver (something) to a repository; to deposit.
fág, imigh

leavings noun

  • A worthless and incidental residuum, such as scraps from a meal, or shavings or sawdust from wood.
fuílleach
Wiktionary Links