açúcar
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See also: açucar
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Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese açúcar, borrowed from Andalusian Arabic سكر (sukkar), from Arabic سُكَّر (sukkar), borrowed from Middle Persian 𐭱𐭪𐭥 (šakar), 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”). Doublet of jágara.
Pronunciation
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Noun
[edit]açúcar m (countable and uncountable, plural açúcares)
- (uncountable) sugar
- 1933, Graciliano Ramos, chapter XIII, in Cahetés[1], Rio de Janeiro: Livraria Schmidt Editora, page 100:
- — Impostora! resmunguei deitando assucar no café. Hypocrita! “Festa de muita piedade...”
- “Impostor!”, I grunted scooping sugar into my coffee. “Hypocrite! ‘celebration of great piety’...”
- (countable, chemistry) sugar
Derived terms
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[edit]- → Araweté: axuka
- → Guajajára: axuk
- → Kaingang: asuka
- → Língua Geral Amazônica: asukiri, asukari, asukeri, asukyri
- Nheengatu: asukirí
- → Papiamentu: suku
- → Urubú-Kaapor: asuku'i
Further reading
[edit]- “açúcar”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
- “açúcar”, in Dicionário Infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2026
- “açúcar”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026
- “açúcar”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2026, →ISBN
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- Portuguese terms derived from Sanskrit
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- Portuguese doublets
- Portuguese terms derived from Andalusian Arabic
- Portuguese terms derived from Middle Persian
- Portuguese terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European word *ḱorkeh₂
- Portuguese terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Portuguese terms derived from Gandhari
- Portuguese terms derived from Proto-Indo-Iranian
- Portuguese terms inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese
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