ocras

French

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)

Terms derived from ocras

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”)

Terms related to ocras

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

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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