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socker

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Noun

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socker (uncountable)

  1. Dated spelling of soccer.

Anagrams

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Swedish

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Swedish Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia sv
socker (strösocker) [sugar (granulated sugar)]
sockerbitar (bitsocker) [sugar cubes (cube sugar)]
florsocker [(US) powdered sugar, (UK) icing sugar]
pärlsocker [pearl sugar, nib sugar]
farinsocker [brown sugar]
råsocker [raw sugar, natural brown sugar]
sockervadd [cotton candy – literally "sugar wadding"]
en sockerskål [a sugar bowl]
en sockertopp [a sugarloaf]

Etymology

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    From Old Swedish soker, from Middle Low German sucker, from Italian zucchero, from Arabic سُكَّر (sukkar), from Persian شکر (šakar).

    Pronunciation

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    Noun

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    socker n

    1. (uncountable) sugar; sucrose in the form of small crystals
      Socker är / smakar sött
      Sugar is / tastes sweet
      Vill du ha socker i kaffet?
      Would you like sugar in your coffee?
    2. (countable, biochemistry) sugar; any of various small carbohydrates that are used by organisms to store energy.
      • 2010, Jennie Molin, Utvärdering av potentialen för produktion av algbiobränsle vid en etanolanläggning[1] (thesis), Linköping University:
        Sockret i sirapen är främst pentoser (till exempel xylos) eftersom det är ett socker som jästsvamparna i etanolproduktionen inte förbrukar (Erlandsson, personlig kommunikation).
        (please add an English translation of this quotation)
    3. (dated) diabetes
      Synonyms: sockersjuka, diabetes
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    Declension

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    Declension of socker
    nominative genitive
    singular indefinite socker sockers
    definite sockret sockrets
    plural indefinite socker sockers
    definite sockren sockrens

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    Descendants

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    • Finnish: sokeri

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