bwa'r Drindod

== Welsh == === Etymology === Literally, “bow of the Trinity”. Calques the image of the rainbow in Genesis 9:13, reframed with explicit Trinitarian attribution: Attested principally in Carmarthenshire and Swansea, the heartland of the 18th-century Welsh Methodist Revival, that opposed Unitarianism, etc, as a probable link. Compare bwa'r arch (“bow of the Ark”), a related and likely-older dialectal form widespread across southwest Wales. === Noun === bwa'r Drindod m (plural bwâu'r Drindod) (dialectal, especially Carmarthenshire and Swansea) rainbow ==== Synonyms ==== === Mutation === === Further reading === R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke, et al., editors (1950–present), “bwar Drindod”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies