socker

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English[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

  • (file)

Noun[edit]

socker (uncountable)

  1. Dated spelling of soccer.

Anagrams[edit]

Swedish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Old Swedish soker, from Middle Low German sucker, from Italian zucchero, from Arabic سُكَّر (sukkar), from Persian شکر (šakar).

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /ˈsɔkɛr/, [ˈsɔkːər]
  • (file)
  • Hyphenation: sock‧er
  • Rhymes: -¹ɔkɛr

Noun[edit]

socker n

  1. (uncountable) sugar; sucrose in the form of small crystals
  2. (countable, biochemistry) sugar; any of various small carbohydrates that are used by organisms to store energy.
    • 2010, Jennie Molin, Utvärdering av potentialen för produktion av algbiobränsle vid en etanolanläggning[1] (thesis), Linköping University:
      Sockret i sirapen är främst pentoser (till exempel xylos) eftersom det är ett socker som jästsvamparna i etanolproduktionen inte förbrukar (Erlandsson, personlig kommunikation).
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Declension[edit]

Declension of socker 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative socker sockret socker sockren
Genitive sockers sockrets sockers sockrens

Derived terms[edit]

Descendants[edit]

  • Finnish: sokeri

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