ocras

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English

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Noun

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ocras

  1. plural of ocra

Anagrams

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French

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Pronunciation

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Verb

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ocras

  1. second-person singular past historic of ocrer

Irish

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Etymology

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From Middle Irish occoras.[1]

Pronunciation

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Noun

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ocras m (genitive singular ocrais)

  1. hunger
    ocras orm.
    I’m hungry.
    (literally, “Hunger is upon me.”)
    Is maith an t-anlann an t-ocras. (proverb)
    Hunger is a good sauce.
  2. poverty, scarcity; meanness, miserliness
  3. strong desire, craving

Declension

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Derived terms

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Mutation

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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.

References

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  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “occoras”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 110, page 59
  3. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 23, page 12

Further reading

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Spanish

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Noun

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ocras m pl

  1. plural of ocra