cukier

Polish

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] German Zucker, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Italian zucchero, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Arabic سُكَّر (sukkar), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Persian شکر (šekar), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Sanskrit शर्करा (śárkarā, “ground or candied sugar, originally meaning grit, gravel”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European *ḱorkeh₂ (“gravel, boulder”). Cognate to French sucre, from Spanish azúcar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡su.kjɛr/

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Noun

cukier m inan

1. sugar
2. saccharide

Declension

Declension of cukier

	singular	plural
nominative	cukier	cukry
genitive	cukru	cukrów
dative	cukrowi	cukrom
accusative	cukier	cukry
instrumental	cukrem	cukrami
locative	cukrze	cukrach
vocative	cukrze	cukry

Derived terms

• cukierek, cukiernia, cukiernik, cukrownia, cukrzyca, cukrowy, cukrzany

Descendants

• → Belarusian: цу́кар (cúkar)
• → Ukrainian: цу́кор (cúkor), цу́кар (cúkar), цу́кер (cúker), цу́кур (cúkur)