çucre
Old French
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Medieval Latin zuccarum, from Arabic سُكَّر (sukkar), from Persian شکر (šakar), from Sanskrit शर्करा (śárkarā, “ground or candied sugar”, originally “grit, gravel”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱorkeh₂ (“gravel, boulder”).
Pronunciation
Noun
çucre oblique singular, m (oblique plural çucres, nominative singular çucres, nominative plural çucre)
- sugar (sweet crystalized powder)
Descendants
- Anglo-Norman: chucre
- Middle French: sucre
- Norman: chucre
- Walloon: souke
- → Aragonese: zucre
- → Asturian: zucre
- → Basque: azukre (influenced by Spanish azúcar)
- → Catalan: sucre
- → Galician: azucre (influenced by Spanish azúcar)
- → Lithuanian: cukrus
- → Middle Breton: csucr
- Breton: sukr
- → Middle Dutch: suicker, suker
- → Occitan: sucre
References
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (sucre, supplement)
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- Old French terms derived from Medieval Latin
- Old French terms derived from Arabic
- Old French terms derived from Persian
- Old French terms derived from Sanskrit
- Old French terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Old French terms with IPA pronunciation
- Old French lemmas
- Old French nouns
- Old French masculine nouns