sugre

== Middle English == === Etymology 1 === Borrowed from Old French çucre, borrowed from Old Italian zucchero, borrowed 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”). ==== Alternative forms ==== sewgyr, succer, succere, sucere, sucre, suger, sugowr, sugr, sugur, sugure, sugyr, sugyre, sukyr, zugere, zuker, zukur ==== Pronunciation ==== IPA(key): /ˈsiu̯ɡər/, /ˈsiu̯ɡrə/, /ˈsiu̯kər/ ==== Noun ==== sugre (uncountable) sugar (crystallised sucrose used as a sweetener) (figurative, rare) Nutrition, nourishment, delight, sweetness. ===== Derived terms ===== suger candy suger lof sugren ===== Descendants ===== English: sugar (see there for further descendants) Scots: succar ===== References ===== “sugre, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 28 July 2018. === Etymology 2 === ==== Verb ==== sugre alternative form of sugren