ocras

English

ocras

ocras

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 of ocras

First declension

Bare forms (no plural of this noun)

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, ocrasán (“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”)

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

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.

"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, 2nd ed., 1927, by Patrick S. Dinneen.
Quiggin, E. C. (1906), A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 12.

ocras m pl

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