sucrose

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *ḱorkeh₂

Proto-Indo-Iranian *ćárkaraH

Proto-Indo-Aryan *śárkaraH

Sanskrit शर्करा (śárkarā)

Gandhari 𐨭𐨐𐨪 (śakara)bor.

Middle Persian 𐭱𐭪𐭥 (šakar)bor.

Arabic سُكَّر (sukkar)bor.

Old Italian zuccherobor.

Old French çucrebor.

Middle French sucre

French sucre

English -ose

English sucrose

From French sucre + English -ose.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈsukɹoʊs/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈsuːkɹəʊz/, /ˈsjuːkɹəʊz/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

sucrose (countable and uncountable, plural sucroses)

1. (biochemistry) A disaccharide with formula C₁₂H₂₂O₁₁, consisting of two simple sugars, glucose and fructose; normal culinary sugar.
   • 1858, July 3, The Medical Times & Gazette, 20:

     There were four forms of sugar interesting to the physiologist---cane sugar, grape sugar, milk sugar, and liver sugar. They might be called, for the sake of distinction, sucrose, glucose, lactose, and hepatose. The first two were vegetable, the last two, animal products.

   • 2019, S. Nel, S. B. Davis, A. Endo, and L. M. T. Dicks, “Differentiation between Bacillus amyloliquefaciens and Bacillus subtilis isolated from a South African sugarcane processing factory using ARDRA and rpoB gene sequencing” in Archives of Microbiology, 1:

     Dextran is an indicator of cane deterioration and sucrose loss after harvesting of the cane.

Synonyms

• saccharose

Translations

a disaccharide

• Albanian: sakaroza f
• Arabic: سكروز (sakruz)
• Armenian: սախարոզ (saxaroz)
• Asturian: sacarosa f
• Basque: sakarosa
• Belarusian: цукроза f (cukróza)
• Bengali: সুক্রোজ (bn) (śukrōj), সুকরোজ (bn) (śukrōj)
• Bulgarian: захароза f (zaharoza), сукроза f (sukroza)
• Catalan: sacarosa (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 蔗糖 (ze³ tong⁴)

  Hakka: 蔗糖 (cha-thòng)

  Hokkien: 蔗糖 (chià-thn̂g)

  Mandarin: 蔗糖 (zh) (zhètáng)

• Crimean Tatar: saharoza
• Czech: sacharóza (cs) f
• Danish: sukrose (da) c, saccharose c
• Dutch: sacharose (nl) f or m
• Esperanto: sakarozo
• Estonian: sahharoos
• Finnish: sakkaroosi (fi)
• French: saccharose (fr) m, saccarose (fr) m
• Galician: sacarosa (gl) f
• Georgian: საქაროზა (sakaroza)
• German: Saccharose (de) f
• Greek: σακχαρόζη f (sakcharózi), καλαμοσάκχαρο (el) n (kalamosákcharo)
• Hindi: इक्षुधु (ikṣudhu)
• Hungarian: cukor (hu), szacharóz (hu)
• Icelandic: súkrósi m, sakkarósi m
• Ido: sakarozo (io)
• Indonesian: sukrosa (id)
• Irish: siúcrós m
• Italian: saccarosio (it) m
• Japanese: スクロース (ja) (sukurōsu), 蔗糖 (ja) (しょとう, shotō)
• Javanese: sukrosa
• Kannada: ಸುಕ್ರೋಸ್ (sukrōs)
• Kazakh: сахароза (saxaroza)
• Khmer: សក្ករជាតិ (sɑɑkkɑɑciəteʼ), ស៊ុក្រូស (sukruuh)
• Korean: 수크로스 (sukeuroseu), 자당(蔗糖) (ko) (jadang)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: sakaroz (ku) m

• Kyrgyz: сахароза (ky) (saharoza)
• Latin: saccharosum n
• Latvian: saharoze (lv) f
• Lithuanian: sacharozė f
• Luxembourgish: Saccharos
• Macedonian: сахароза f (saharoza)
• Malay: sukrosa (ms)
• Malayalam: സുക്രോസ് (sukrōsŭ)
• Maori: hukatō
• Marathi: इक्षुधु (ikṣudhu)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: сахароз (saxaroz), нишингийн чихэр (nišingiin čixer) (China)

• Nepali: इक्षुधु (ikṣudhu)
• North Frisian: saccharoos
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: sukrose m

  Nynorsk: sukrose m

• Occitan: sacaròsa f, sucròsa f
• Persian: ساکارز (fa)
• Polish: sacharoza f
• Portuguese: sacarose (pt) f
• Romanian: zaharoză (ro) f, sucroză f
• Russian: сахаро́за (ru) f (saxaróza)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: сахаро́за f

  Roman: saharóza (sh) f

• Sinhalese: සුක්රෝස් (sukrōs)
• Slovak: sacharóza (sk) f
• Slovene: saharoza f
• Spanish: sacarosa (es) f
• Sundanese: sukrosa
• Swedish: sackaros (sv) c, sukros c
• Tamil: சுக்குரோசு (cukkurōcu)
• Telugu: సుక్రోజ్ (sukrōj)
• Thai: ซูโครส (soo-króht)
• Turkish: sakkaroz (tr)
• Ukrainian: цукро́за (uk) f (cukróza), сахаро́за (uk) f (saxaróza)
• Uzbek:

  Cyrillic: сахароза (uz) (saxaroza)

  Roman: saxaroza (uz)

• Welsh: swcros (cy) m
• West Frisian: sacharoaze (fy) c

Anagrams

• Cousers, Croesus, Crouses, Crœsus, Scouser, courses, rescous, scourse, scouser, sources

Dutch

Etymology

From French sucre (“sugar”), derivation of Latin saccharum +‎ -ose.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /syˈkroːzə/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -oːzə
• Hyphenation: su‧cro‧se

Noun

sucrose f or m (uncountable, no diminutive)

1. sucrose

Synonyms

• sacharose

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