açúcar

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See also: açucar

Portuguese

Portuguese Wikipedia has an article on:

açúcar

Alternative forms

açucre (dated or dialectal)
assucar, açucar (superseded)

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic السُكَّر (as-sukkar),^[1]^[2] from Persian (šakar), from Middle Persian 𐭱𐭪𐭥 (škʿ /⁠šakar⁠/), from Sanskrit शर्करा (śárkarā, “ground or candied sugar”), originally "grit, gravel", from Proto-Indo-European *ḱorkeh₂ (“gravel, boulder”).

Pronunciation

(Brazil) IPA^(key): /aˈsu.kɐʁ/
- (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /aˈsu.kɐɾ/
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /aˈsu.kɐʁ/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /aˈsu.kaɻ/

(Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɐˈsu.kaɾ/, /ɐˈsu.kɐɾ/

(Rural Central Brazil) IPA^(key): /ɐˈsu.kɐɹ/
Hyphenation: a‧çú‧car
Audio (Portugal): (file)

Noun

açúcar m (plural açúcares)

(uncountable) sugar
(countable, chemistry) sugar

Derived terms

Descendants

→ Kaingang: asuka
→ Old Tupi: asukiri, asukari
- Nheengatu: asukirí
→ Papiamentu: suku

References

^ “açúcar”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024
^ “açúcar”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024

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