ocras

English

Noun

ocras

  1. plural of ocra

Anagrams

French

Pronunciation

Verb

ocras

  1. second-person singular past historic of ocrer

Irish

Etymology

From Middle Irish occoras.[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

ocras m (genitive singular ocrais)

  1. hunger
    Tá ocras orm.
    I’m hungry.
    (literally, “Hunger is upon me.”)
    Is maith an t-anlann an t-ocras. (proverb)
    Hunger is a good sauce.
  2. poverty, scarcity; meanness, miserliness
  3. strong desire, craving

Declension
Declension of ocras

First declension

Bare forms (no plural of this noun)

Case Singular
Nominative ocras
Vocative a ocrais
Genitive ocrais
Dative ocras

Forms with the definite article:

Case Singular
Nominative an t-ocras
Genitive an ocrais
Dative leis an ocras

don ocras

Derived terms
  • ag siolgaireacht le hocras (“weak from hunger”)
  • bheith ar an ocras (“to live in hunger, be in want”)
  • faoi ocras (“enduring hunger”)
  • lucht ocrais (“miserable lot”)
  • ocras tar éis altaithe (“lean diet”, literally “hunger after thanksgiving”)
  • ocrasach (“hungry”)
  • ocrasán (“hungry person”)
  • ocrastúil (“hungry”, adjective)
  • ré-ocras (“peckishness”)
  • sceimhle ocrais (“raging hunger”)

Mutation
Irish mutation
RadicalEclipsiswith h-prothesiswith t-prothesis
ocras n-ocras hocras not applicable
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References
  1. G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “occoras”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 59
  3. Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 12

Further reading

Spanish

Noun

ocras m pl

  1. plural of ocra
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