çucre
Old French edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Old Italian zucchero (or another vernacular of Italy),[1] from Arabic سُكَّر (sukkar), from Persian شکر (šakar), from Sanskrit शर्करा (śárkarā, “ground or candied sugar”, originally “grit, gravel”); see sugar for more details.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
çucre oblique singular, m (oblique plural çucres, nominative singular çucres, nominative plural çucre)
- sugar (sweet crystalized powder)
Descendants edit
- Anglo-Norman: chucre
- Middle French: sucre
- Norman: chucre
- Walloon: souke
- → Lithuanian: cukrus
- → Middle Breton: csucr
- Breton: sukr
- → Middle Dutch: suicker, suker
References edit
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (sucre, supplement)
- ^ Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “sukkar”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 19: Orientalia, page 163