ocras
English
Noun
ocras
- plural of ocra
Anagrams
- AOCRs, ASROC, Carso, OSCAR, Oscar, ROSCA, Rasco, Rocas, orcas, oscar, sacro-, sarco-
French
Pronunciation
- Homophones: ocra, ocrât
Verb
ocras
- second-person singular past historic of ocrer
Irish
Etymology
From Middle Irish occoras.
Pronunciation
- (Munster) IPA(key): /ˈɔkəɾˠəsˠ/, /ˈɞkəɾˠəsˠ/
- (Connacht, Ulster) IPA(key): /ˈɔkɾˠəsˠ/
Noun
ocras m (genitive singular ocrais)
- 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.
- poverty, scarcity; meanness, miserliness
- strong desire, craving
Declension
Declension of ocras
First declension
Bare forms (no plural of this noun)
| Forms with the definite article:
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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”)
- ocrasach (“hungry”)
- ocrasán (“hungry person”)
- ocras tar éis altaithe (“lean diet”, literally “hunger after thanksgiving”)
- ocrastúil (“hungry”, adjective)
- ré-ocras (“peckishness”)
- sceimhle ocrais (“raging hunger”)
Related terms
- ocrach
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. | |||
Further reading
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “ocras”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, 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
- Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 59
Spanish
Noun
ocras m pl
- plural of ocra