azúcar
Spanish
editEtymology
editInherited from Old Spanish açúcar, borrowed from Arabic سُكَّر (sukkar), via Andalusian Arabic. Cognate with English sugar.
Pronunciation
edit- IPA(key): (Spain) /aˈθukaɾ/ [aˈθu.kaɾ]
- IPA(key): (Latin America) /aˈsukaɾ/ [aˈsu.kaɾ]
- Rhymes: -ukaɾ
- Syllabification: a‧zú‧car
Noun
editazúcar m or f same meaning (plural azúcares)
Usage notes
edit- Depending on dialect, when azúcar is immediately preceded by the article, it may be el, even when construed as feminine, even though the initial a is not stressed.
- Per the Real Academia Española, azúcar is normally masculine when used in a chemical sense.
Derived terms
edit- algodón de azúcar
- azúcar blanca
- azúcar blanco
- azúcar de cortadillo
- azúcar de leche
- azúcar de lustre
- azúcar de malta
- azúcar de pilón
- azúcar de plomo
- azúcar de quebrados
- azúcar de Saturno
- azúcar de uva
- azúcar en polvo
- azúcar flor
- azúcar glas
- azúcar impalpable
- azúcar morena
- azúcar moreno
- azúcar y canela
- azucarar
- azucarera
- azucarería
- azucarero
- azucarillo
- caña de azúcar
- costra de azúcar
- ingenio de azúcar
- lepisma del azúcar
- nube de azúcar
- palmera del azúcar
- pan de azúcar
Descendants
edit- → Bikol Central: asukar
- → Cebuano: asukar
- → Chamorro: asukat
- → Guaraní: asuka
- → Hiligaynon: asukar
- → Ilocano: asukar
- → Limos Kalinga: asukal
- → Quechua: asukar
- → Tagalog: asukal
- → Waray-Waray: asukar
- → Yucatec Maya: asukaar
Further reading
edit- “azúcar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Categories:
- Spanish terms derived from Old Spanish
- Spanish terms derived from Andalusian Arabic
- Spanish terms derived from Arabic
- Spanish terms derived from Middle Persian
- Spanish terms derived from Sanskrit
- Spanish terms inherited from Old Spanish
- Spanish 3-syllable words
- Spanish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Spanish/ukaɾ
- Rhymes:Spanish/ukaɾ/3 syllables
- Spanish lemmas
- Spanish nouns
- Spanish countable nouns
- Spanish masculine nouns
- Spanish feminine nouns
- Spanish nouns with multiple genders
- es:Sugars