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ocras

ocras

French

Verb

ocras

second-person singular past historic of ocrer

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish occoras.

Pronunciation

(Munster) IPA^(key): /ˈɔkəɾˠəsˠ/
(Connacht, Ulster) IPA^(key): /ˈɔkɾˠəsˠ/

Noun

ocras m ‎(genitive singular ocrais)

hunger

Tá ocras orm.‎
I’m hungry.

Is maith an t-anlann an t-ocras.‎
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)

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

Terms derived from ocras

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”)
ocrasach ‎(“hungry person”)
ocrasach, ocrastúil ‎(“hungry; marked by, inducing, hunger; poor, barren; poverty-stricken; mean, miserly”, adjective)
ocras céadach ‎(“terrible thirst”)
ocras talún ‎(“land hunger”)
ocras tar éis altaithe ‎(“lean diet”, literally “hunger after thanksgiving”)

ocras tobac ‎(“craving for tobacco”)
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 m ‎(“hungry person”)
ocrach ‎(“hungry; marked by, inducing, hunger; poor, barren; poverty-stricken; mean, miserly”, adjective)

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
ocras	n-ocras	hocras	unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

"ocras" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
“occoras” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
“ocras” in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, Irish Texts Society, 1927, by Patrick S. Dinneen.
E. C. Quiggin, A Dialect of Donegal, page 12.

Spanish

Noun

ocras m pl

plural of ocra