tintreach
feminine
The Irish word for lightning is tintreach.
tintreach is a noun used to describe the atmospheric discharge of electricity during a storm.
Meaning: discharge (noun)
How does it change in a sentence?
tintreach is a feminine noun.
Did you know?
- In Irish folklore, lightning was sometimes viewed as the 'fire of the saints' or divine intervention, rather than just a weather event.
- The word tintreach belongs to a family of words related to 'sparking' and 'glittering' that are shared with other Goidelic languages like Scottish Gaelic.
- While English uses 'lightning' for the phenomenon, if you wanted to describe the specific 'flash' of the bolt in Irish, you might use lonrach, which relates to brilliance.
Example sentences for Irish are not verified yet.
Example conversation
Cian and Aoife are watching a storm from a window.
- CianBreathnaigh ar an tintreach!Look at the lightning!
- AoifeTá sé an-uafásach, a Chian.It is terrible, Cian.
- CianAn dtiocfaidh an tintreach ansin?Will the lightning strike there?
- AoifeTá súil agam nach dtiocfaidh.I hope it doesn't.
Sources
- Wiktionary, “lightning” translations, CC BY-SA 4.0, dump of 2026-09-26.
