Foclóir

Focail farraige úsáidte sa bhlag:

Aife - ebb.

Ainligh - manoeuvre, handle, stem the tide.

Báinté (tá an fharraige ina báinté) -  dead calm (the sea is dead calm) 

Bánuisce - whitewater.

Bristeacha - breaking waves.

Bréitseach - rough (sea) 

Bruth - surf, surge, swell.

Buacán - reflected waves, clapotis, bow-wave of a boat.

Caise - current.

Caise mhara - tidal race.

Cáitheadh - spindrift. Farraige cháiteach - sea full of spray/spindrift.

Clagfharraige - Rough/choppy sea 

An ciúnáil - a spell of calm settled weather.

Coinnic - vortex/whirlpool/boil/upwelling.

Cora - weir.

Cuas - a narrow usually steep sided inlet/gully or bay.

Cuilithe - eddy current

 Cuilithíní - ripples

Cubhrán - foam on the sea

Cúr - foam/froth blown in onto the strand.

Dúlaoisc - sea-level cave.

Fargán - rock ledge sloping down to the sea.

Feacht - current

tá an ghaoth ag gabháil ar an tsruth - lee tide/wind and tide together.

Gaineamh slogach - quicksand/sinking sand.

Inbhear - estuary.

Ineasclann - rapid, torrent.

Léinseach/farraige ina léinsigh - calm sea/stretch of water

Líonán - submerged reef dangerous to navigation.

Maoim - rock or rocky area below chart datum.

Maolán - a rock awash at chart datum, boomer.

Muiríne - marina.

Méarnáil - bioluminescence  

Oighreach - chafe/rash on the skin from salt.

Oitir - submerged sandbank, shoal.

Ólaí - long period swell wave/roller.

Plab - sea conditions during weather tide.

Rabha - sunken reef.

Sabhsa - undertow/rip.

Saoiste, saoisteacha - swell, big waves. 

ar snámh - afloat/floating.

ag snámh - swimming.

Srúill - current/stream.

Sruth líonta - flood tide.

Stiúir - rudder

Stopóg - shallow rocky area below chart datum.

Suaill - swell.

Suaitheadh farraige - turmoil of the sea 

Táibheall - slack water/slack tide.

Tarraingt a' bhfarraige - undertow/rip.

Teannaire - the roaring noise of the sea in a cave.

Tine shionnaigh - bioluminescence.

Tuaim, Tuaimneacha - sound of the swell breaking on the rocks.

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