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

(Munster, Connacht) IPA^(key): [ˈpˠoːkə]
(Ulster) IPA^(key): [ˈpˠɔːkə]

Noun

póca m (genitive singular póca, nominative plural pócaí)

pocket

Declension

Declension of póca

Fourth declension

Bare forms

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	póca	pócaí
Vocative	a phóca	a phócaí
Genitive	póca	pócaí
Dative	póca	pócaí

Forms with the definite article

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	an póca	na pócaí
Genitive	an phóca	na bpócaí
Dative	leis an bpóca don phóca	leis na pócaí

Derived terms

Terms derived from póca

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”)

Related terms

sparán m (“purse”)

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

"póca" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.

Venetian

Noun

póca f (plural póche) (Masculineine: póco)

A little

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