Hi all,

I've been asked to translate a children's book written by a friend from English into Irish. A pirate has popped up in the story. How would you translate this word into Irish?

I haven't found anything very satisfactory in the usual dictionaries.

Thank you all so much,

Mary.

Focloir lists foghlaí mara and píoráid both of which are collaborated by De Bhaldraithe and Ó Dónaill. So, that's the options used by native speakers, though Ó Dónaill does list a few other options as well, such as loingseach, uiging, fomhórach; these all have other meanings that are listed before "pirate", however.

That's great, thanks.

I was thinking of using "píoráid", but I'm not sure if it would mean anything to someone from the Gaeltacht...

I'm liking "loingseach" too, as one can easily make the connection with the word "long".

Any other thoughts from people?

Which is interesting, historically, when you think of the fact that the word long comes from Old Norse (referring to a Viking longboat originally). The Vikings were certainly pirates from the Irish point of view near the end of the first millenium.

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I'm not a native (or entirely fluent) speaker, so be sure to wait for confirmations/corrections, especially for tattoos.

foghlaí mara - is the most used term I think.

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