English word sugar comes from Persian شکر (Sugar.)
| Dictionary entry | Language | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| شکر | Persian (fas) | Sugar. |
| سُكَّر | Arabic (ara) | |
| سكر | Arabic (ara) | (uncountable) sugar Drunkenness, intoxication, inebriety. Intoxicant. Wine To candy. To sugar, to sprinkle sugar over. To sweeten, to add sugar To be drunk, to be intoxicated. To get drunk, to become intoxicated. |
| zucchero | Old Italian (it-oit) | |
| zucarum | Malayalam (mal) | |
| zucchero | Italian (ita) | First-person singular indicative present of zuccherare Sugar (all senses). |
| zuccarum | Malayalam (mal) | |
| chucre | Old French (842-ca. 1400) (fro) | |
| sucre | Middle French (ca. 1400-1600) (frm) | |
| sucre | Middle English (1100-1500) (enm) | |
| sugar | English (eng) | (US, Canada, regional) In making maple sugar, to complete the process of boiling down the syrup till it is thick enough to crystallize; to approach or reach the state of granulation; with the preposition off.. (entomology) To apply sugar to trees or plants in order to catch moths.. (programming, transitive) To rewrite (source code) using syntactic sugar.. (transitive) To add sugar to; to [...] |