ocras

English

Noun

ocras

1. plural of ocra

Anagrams

• AOCRs, ASROC, Carso, OSCAR, Oscar, ROSCA, Rasco, Rocas, orcas, oscar, sacro-, sarco-

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French

Pronunciation

• Homophones: ocra, ocrât

Verb

ocras

1. second-person singular past historic of ocrer

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Irish

Etymology

From Middle Irish occoras.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɔkəɾˠəsˠ/
• IPA^(key): /ˈɔkɾˠəsˠ/

Noun

ocras m (genitive singular ocrais)

1. hunger

   Tá ocras orm. ― I’m hungry.

   Is maith an t-anlann an t-ocras. ― 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, lag leis an ocras (“weak from hunger”)
• bheith ar an ocras (“to live in hunger, be in want”)
• call is ocras (“want and hunger”)
• confadh ocrais, ocras buile (“ravenous hunger”)
• dreach an ocrais (“hungry expression”)
• faoi ocras (“enduring hunger”)
• géaróg ocrais, goin ocrais (“pang of hunger”)
• goimh ocrais (“the sting of hunger”)
• lagar ocrais (“weakness from hunger, inanition”)
• lucht ocrais (“hungry people; miserable lot”)
• ocras céadach (“terrible thirst”)
• ocras talún (“land hunger”)
• ocras tar éis altaithe (“lean diet”, literally “hunger after thanksgiving”)
• ocras tobac (“craving for tobacco”)
• ocrasach, ocrasán (“hungry person”)
• ocrasach, ocrastúil (“hungry; marked by, inducing, hunger; poor, barren; poverty-stricken; mean, miserly”, adjective)
• ré-ocras (“peckishness”)
• sceimhle ocrais (“raging hunger”)
• scrúdta ag an ocras (“tormented with hunger”)
• séasúr an ocrais (“season of scarcity”)
• silte ag an ocras (“enfeebled by hunger”)
• sleaic ocrais (“weakness from hunger”)

 

Related terms

• ocrach (“hungry; marked by, inducing, hunger; poor, barren; poverty-stricken; mean, miserly”)
• ocrach m (“hungry person”)

 

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with 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

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “ocras”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “occoras”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “ocras”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 524
• Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 12

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Spanish

Noun

ocras m pl

1. plural of ocra