turchair

== Scottish Gaelic == === Etymology === From Old Irish turchur. === Verb === turchair (past thurchair, future turchairidh, verbal noun turchairt) happen, chance Thurchair dhaibh a thighinn dhachaigh aig an aon àm. ― They happened to come home at the same time. a thurchair a bhith a' dol seachad ― who happened/chanced to be passing by. nan turchradh dhuinn a bhith ― if we happen to be Thurchair mi air. ― I chanced on it / I met him by chance. ==== Synonyms ==== tachair === References === Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “turchur”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language