sukur

See also: şükür

Faroese

sukur

sukur

Etymology

From Danish sukker, from Middle Low German sucker, from Italian zucchero, from Arabic سُكَّر (sukkar), from Persian شکر (šekar), from Sanskrit शर्करा (śarkarā, “ground or candied sugar, originally meaning grit, gravel”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsuːkʊɹ/

Noun

sukur m (genitive singular sukurs, uncountable)

1. sugar (sucrose from sugar cane or sugar beet and used to sweeten food and drink)

Declension

n13s	Singular
	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	sukur	sukrið
Accusative	sukur	sukrið
Dative	sukri	sukrinum
Genitive	sukurs	sukursins

Derived terms

• mjólkarsukur
• drúvusukur
• vínberjasukur
• vaniljusukur
• putursukur
• súltusukur
• sukurrør
• sukurrót

Related terms

• hunangur
• siropur
• sinnopur
• edikur
• salt
• pipar
• olja
• olivinolja
• sólblómuolja
• víndrúvukjarnuolja

Ternate

Etymology

Reborrowed from Malay syukur, from Arabic شُكْر (šukr).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈsu.kuɾ]

Noun

sukur

1. Alternative form of suku (“thanks, gratitude”)

References

• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh