sochar

See also: sochař

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish sochar (“a good or valid contract; privileges, rights, dues, revenues; profit, advantage, benefit”), from so- (“good”) + cor (“act of putting, placing; setting up; act of throwing, casting; act of letting go, discarding; leap, twist; throw; twist, coil; contract”).

Noun

sochar m (genitive singular sochair, nominative plural sochair)

1. (literary) valid contract; (collectively) privileges, dues; emoluments
2. benefit, profit; advantage, gain
3. produce

Declension

Declension of sochar (first declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative sochar sochair vocative a shochair a shochara genitive sochair sochar dative sochar sochair forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an sochar na sochair genitive an tsochair na sochar dative leis an sochar don sochar leis na sochair

Synonyms

• (profit): gnóthachan
• (profit, advantage): brabach
• (profit, advantage, return): brabús
• (benefit): leas, buntáiste
• (benefit, gain): tairbhe
• (return): toradh

Derived terms

• bonn sochair (“luck-penny”)
• fuílleach sochair (“credit balance”)
• im sochair (“yellowish oily exudation from soil”)
• nóta sochair (“credit note”)
• sochar agus dochar (“profit and loss; advantages and disadvantages”)
• sochar frithpháirteach (“mutual benefit”)

 

Mutation

Mutated forms of sochar

radical	lenition	eclipsis
sochar	shochar after an, tsochar	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

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

Scottish Gaelic

Noun

sochar f (genitive singular sochair, no plural)

1. silliness, weakness, instability of purpose, yielding or too-compliant disposition, simplicity
2. indulgence
3. immunity
4. interest
5. present, donation
6. Alternative form of sochair
7. bashfulness, shyness