sochar

See also: sochař

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish sochar (“a good or valid contract; privileges, rights, dues, revenues; profit, advantage, benefit”), from so- (“good”) + cor (“act of putting, placing; setting up; act of throwing, casting; act of letting go, discarding; leap, twist; throw; twist, coil; contract”).

Noun

sochar m (genitive singular sochair, nominative plural sochair)

1. (literary) valid contract; (collectively) privileges, dues; emoluments
2. benefit, profit; advantage, gain
3. produce

Declension

Declension of sochar

First declension

Bare forms: Case Singular Plural Nominative sochar sochair Vocative a shochair a shochara Genitive sochair sochar Dative sochar sochair

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Plural Nominative an sochar na sochair Genitive an tsochair na sochar Dative leis an sochar don sochar leis na sochair

Synonyms

• (profit): gnóthachan
• (profit, advantage): brabach
• (profit, advantage, return): brabús
• (benefit): leas, buntáiste
• (benefit, gain): tairbhe
• (return): toradh

Derived terms

• bonn sochair (“luck-penny”)
• fuílleach sochair (“credit balance”)
• im sochair (“yellowish oily exudation from soil”)
• nóta sochair (“credit note”)
• sochar agus dochar (“profit and loss; advantages and disadvantages”)
• sochar frithpháirteach (“mutual benefit”)

 

References

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “sochar”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “sochar”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

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Scottish Gaelic

Noun

sochar f (genitive singular sochair, no plural)

1. silliness, weakness, instability of purpose, yielding or too-compliant disposition, simplicity
2. indulgence
3. immunity
4. interest
5. present, donation
6. Alternative form of sochair
7. bashfulness, shyness