siùcar

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Middle Irish siúcra, from Anglo-Norman sucre, from Old French çucre, chucre, from Medieval Latin zuccarum, from Arabic سُكَّر‎ (sukkar), from Persian (šakar), from Sanskrit शर्करा (śárkarā, “ground or candied sugar", originally "grit, gravel”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱorkeh₂ (“gravel, boulder”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈʃuːxkər/

Noun

siùcar m (genitive singular siùcair, plural siùcaran)

sugar

Derived terms

tinneas an t-siùcair (“diabetes”)

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