siúcra

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Irish

Alternative forms

siúchra
siúcar (East Ulster)

Etymology

From Middle Irish siúcra (compare Scottish Gaelic siùcar), from Anglo-Norman sucre, from Old French çucre, chucre, from Old Italian zucchero, from Arabic سُكَّر (sukkar), from Persian (šakar), from Sanskrit शर्करा (śarkarā, “ground or candied sugar”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈʃuːkɾˠə/^[1]^[2]^[3]

Noun

siúcra m (genitive singular siúcra, nominative plural siúcraí)

sugar
Taoi gafa le siúcra, ar m'fhocal.
You're addicted to sugar, I swear.

Declension

Declension of siúcra (fourth declension)

bare forms
case	singular	plural
nominative	siúcra	siúcraí
vocative	a shiúcra	a shiúcraí
genitive	siúcra	siúcraí
dative	siúcra	siúcraí

forms with the definite article
case	singular	plural
nominative	an siúcra	na siúcraí
genitive	an tsiúcra	na siúcraí
dative	leis an siúcra don siúcra	leis na siúcraí

Derived terms

bata siúcra (“sugar stick”)
biatas siúcra (“sugar-beet”)
cána siúcra (“sugarcane”)
coirceog shiúcra (“sugar-loaf”)
leathchloch shiúcra (“half-stone of sugar”)
mailp an tsiúcra (“sugar maple”)
plandáil siúcra (“sugar plantation”)
scaglann siúcra (“sugar refinery”)
siúcra bainne (“sugar of milk, lactose”)
siúcra bán (“white sugar”)
siúcra biatais (“beet sugar”)
siúcra cána (“cane sugar”)
siúcra candaí (“sugar-candy”)
siúcra dóite (“burnt sugar”)
siúcra donn (“brown sugar”)
siúcra fíonchaor (“grape-sugar, glucose”)
siúcra garbh (“granulated sugar”)
siúcra luaidhe (“sugar of lead”)
siúcra mailpe (“maple sugar”)
siúcra mín (“castor sugar”)
siúcra na gcnapán (“lump sugar”)
siúcra rua (“brown sugar”)
siúcra toraidh (“fruit-sugar, laevulose”)
siúcraiféarach (“sacchariferous”)
siúcraigh (“saccharify, sugar”)
siúcramhéadar (“saccharimeter”)
siúcrós (“sucrose”)
siúcrúil (“sugary”)
tlú siúcra (“sugar tongs”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of *siúcra*
radical	lenition	eclipsis
siúcra	shiúcra after an, tsiúcra	not applicable

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 74, page 39
^ Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect] (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 235
^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 355, page 121

Further reading

Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “siúcra”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “siúcra”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

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