póca

See also: poca, pòca, poça, and роса

Irish

Etymology

From Old Northern French poque, poke (bag, sack), of Germanic origin, from Frankish *pokka (pouch), from Proto-Germanic *puk-, *pūka- (bag, pouch), from Proto-Indo-European *buk-, *bu-, *beu- (to blow, swell). Cognate with English pouch and pocket.

Pronunciation

Noun

póca m (genitive singular póca, nominative plural pócaí)

  1. pocket

Declension

Derived terms

  • airgead póca m (pocket-money)
  • ceamara póca (pocket camera)
  • ciarsúr póca m, naipcín póca m (pocket handkerchief)
  • eagrán póca (pocket edition)
  • fleasc póca (hip-flask)
  • gloine phóca (pocket lens)
  • lampa póca m (flash-lamp)
  • lán póca (pocketful)
  • leabhar póca m (pocket-book)
  • liopa póca m (flap of pocket)
  • mioncheamara póca (vest-pocket camera)
  • piocadh pócaí, sladadh pócaí (pocket-picking)
  • piocaire póca m (pick-pocket)
  • piostal póca m (pocket-pistol)
  • póca ascaille m (inside breast-pocket)
  • póca bríste m (trouser-pocket)
  • póca brollaigh (breast-pocket)
  • póca casóige m (coat-pocket)
  • póca fiaigh (poacher-pocket)
  • póca tóna m (hip-pocket)
  • póca uaireadóra (fob, watch-pocket)
  • póca veiste m (vest-pocket)
  • scian phóca f (pocket-knife, penknife)
  • tóirse póca (pocket lamp)
  • veidhlín póca (kit violin)

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
póca phóca bpóca
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading


Venetian

Noun

póca f (plural póche) (Masculineine: póco)

  1. A little
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