açúcar
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
See also: açucar
Portuguese
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- açucre (dated or dialectal)
Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Arabic السُكَّر (as-sukkar),[1][2] from Persian شکر (šakar), from Middle Persian 𐭱𐭪𐭥 (škʿ /šakar/), from Sanskrit शर्करा (śárkarā, “ground or candied sugar”), originally "grit, gravel", from Proto-Indo-European *ḱorkeh₂ (“gravel, boulder”).
Pronunciation
[edit]
Noun
[edit]açúcar m (plural açúcares)
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ “açúcar” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024.
- ^ “açúcar” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.
Categories:
- Portuguese terms borrowed from Arabic
- Portuguese terms derived from Arabic
- Portuguese terms derived from Persian
- Portuguese terms derived from Middle Persian
- Portuguese terms derived from Sanskrit
- Portuguese terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Portuguese 3-syllable words
- Portuguese terms with IPA pronunciation
- Portuguese terms with audio links
- Portuguese lemmas
- Portuguese nouns
- Portuguese countable nouns
- Portuguese masculine nouns
- Portuguese uncountable nouns
- pt:Chemistry