Borrowed from Middle English terme, from Old French terme, from Latin terminus (“boundary, limit”). Doublet of tearmann.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtʲeːɾˠmˠə/^[1]

téarma m (genitive singular téarma, nominative plural téarmaí)

1. term, period
2. time limit
3. term, condition
4. (music, poetry) quatrain, stanza, verse

• (time limit): teorainn ama
• (quatrain, stanza, verse): rann

• aontéarmach
• mórthéarma

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “térma”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “téarma”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 727