siúcra

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 شکر (šakar), from Sanskrit शर्करा (śarkarā, “ground or candied sugar”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈʃuːkɾˠə/

Noun

siúcra m (genitive singular siúcra, nominative plural siúcraí)

1. 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.

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