açúcar

== Portuguese == === Alternative forms === açucre (dated or dialectal) assucar, açucar (pre-standardization spelling) === Etymology === Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese açúcar, borrowed from Andalusian Arabic السُكَّر (as-sukkar), from Arabic سُكَّر (sukkar), borrowed from Middle Persian 𐭱𐭪𐭥 (šakar), borrowed from Gandhari 𐨭𐨐𐨪 (śakara), from Sanskrit शर्क॑रा (śárkarā), from Proto-Indo-Aryan *śárkaraH, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *ćárkaraH, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱorkeh₂ (“gravel”). Doublet of jágara. === Pronunciation === (Rural Central Brazil) IPA(key): /ɐˈsu.kɐɹ/ Hyphenation: a‧çú‧car === Noun === açúcar m (countable and uncountable, plural açúcares) (uncountable) sugar (countable, chemistry) sugar ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== → Araweté: axuka → Guajajára: axuk → Kaingang: asuka → Língua Geral Amazônica: asukiri, asukari, asukeri, asukyriNheengatu: asukirí → Papiamentu: suku === Further reading === “açúcar”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026 “açúcar”, in Dicionário infopédia da Lingua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2026 “açúcar”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026 “açúcar”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2026, →ISBN