acrach

Irish

Alternative forms

• acarach (both etymologies)

Etymology 1

From acra (“tool, implement; service, convenience”) +‎ -ach (adjectival suffix).

Adjective

acrach (genitive singular masculine acraigh, genitive singular feminine acraí, plural acracha, comparative acraí)

1. handy, useful; convenient

Declension

Declension of acrach

	singular		plural (m/f)
Positive	masculine	feminine	(strong noun)	(weak noun)
nominative	acrach	acrach	acracha
vocative	acraigh		acracha
genitive		acraí	acracha	acrach
dative	acrach	acrach; acraigh (archaic)	acracha
Comparative	níos acraí
Superlative	is acraí

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “acrach”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “acrach”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “acrach”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2025

Etymology 2

Adjective

acrach (genitive singular masculine acraigh, genitive singular feminine acraighe, plural acracha, comparative acraighe)

1. Obsolete form of ocrach (“hungry”).

Further reading

• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “acrach”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 4

Mutation

Mutated forms of acrach

radical	eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
acrach	n-acrach	hacrach	not applicable

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

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology 1

From Old Irish occorach.

Adjective

acrach (genitive singular feminine acraiche, comparative acraiche)

1. hungry

Usage notes

• Usually used attributively. The usual predicative form is created using acras:

  daoine acrach ― hungry people

  tha an t-acras orra ― they are hungry (literally, “[there] is the hunger on them”)

Alternative forms

• acorach, ocrach, ocrasach

Derived terms

• mion-acrach (“hungry, voracious, ravenous; having a false appetite; eating but little at a time, as an invalid”)

Noun

acrach m

1. hungry person

Alternative forms

• acorach, ocrach, ocrasach

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

acrach f

1. genitive singular of acair (“anchor”)

Mutation

Mutation of acrach

radical	eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
acrach	n-acrach	h-acrach	t-acrach

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

Further reading

• Edward Dwelly (1911) “acrach”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎^[1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “occorach”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language