škl

See also: SKL and skl

Middle Persian

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *ḱorkeh₂

Proto-Indo-Iranian *ćárkaraH

Proto-Indo-Aryan *śárkaraH

Sanskrit शर्क॑रा (śárkarā)

Gandhari 𐨭𐨐𐨪 (śakara)bor.

Middle Persian škl

Borrowed from Gandhari 𐨭𐨐𐨪 (śakara), from Sanskrit शर्क॑रा (śárkarā), from Proto-Indo-Aryan *śárkaraH, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *ćárkaraH, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱorkeh₂ (“gravel”). Compare Manichaean Middle Persian 𐫢𐫞𐫡 (šqr /⁠šakar⁠/).

Noun

škl • (šakar)

1. sugar

Descendants

• Classical Persian: شَکَر (šakar), شَکَّر (šakkar) (see there for further descendants)
• → Arabic: سُكَّر (sukkar) (see there for further descendants)
• → Aramaic:
  • Classical Syriac: ܫܟܪ (šekkar)
• → Mingrelian: შანქარი (šankari)
• → Old Armenian: շաքար (šakʻar)
  • Middle Armenian: շաքար (šakʻar)
    • Armenian: շաքար (šakʻar)
    • →? Middle Georgian: შაქარი (šakari)
      • Georgian: შაქარი (šakari)
        • → Abkhaz: ашьақар (ašakar)
        • → Mingrelian: შანქარი (šankari)
        • → Svan: შაქარ (šakar)

References

• MacKenzie, D. N. (1971), “šakar”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 79