شکرشکن

Persian

Etymology

From شکر (šakkar, “sugar”) +‎ شکن (šikan / šekan, present stem of شکستن (“to break”)).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): /ʃak.kar.ʃi.ˈkan/

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [ʃäk.kʰäɾ.ʃɪ.kʰän]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [ʃäk.kʰäɾ.ʃɪ.kʰän]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [ʃäk.kʰäɾ.ʃɪ.kʰän]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [ʃäk.kʰäɾ.ʃi.kʰän]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [ʃækʰʲ.kʰʲæɹ.ʃe.kʰʲæn]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [ʃäk.kʰäɾ.ʃi.kʰän]

Readings
Classical reading?	šakkar-šikan
Dari reading?	šakkar-šikan
Iranian reading?	šakkar-šekan
Tajik reading?	šakkar-šikan

Adjective

شکرشکن • (šakkar-šikan / šakkar-šekan) (Tajik spelling шаккаршикан)

1. (literally) sugar-breaking
2. (figuratively, poetry) having a mellifluous voice, sweet-sounding (especially of the beloved or poets)

Quotations

• Hafez, Divan:

  طوطی شکرشکن

  tūtī-yi šakkar-šikan / tuti-ye šakkar-šekan

  sugar-breaking parrot

• Hafez, Divan:

  شکرشکن شوند همه طوطیان هند
  زین قند پارسی که به بنگاله می‌رود

  šakkar-šikan šawand hama tūtiyān-i hind / šakkar-šekan šavand hame tutiyân-e hend
  zīn qand-i pārsī ki ba bangāla mē-rawad / zin ġand-e pârsi ke be bangâle mi-ravad

  All the poets of India would become sweet-sounding
  Because of this Persian language that is spreading to Bengal

Descendants

• → Azerbaijani: şəkkərşikən
• → Ottoman Turkish: شکرشکن (şekkerşiken)
• → Chagatai:
  • Uzbek: shakkarshikan