sugar

Εννοια (Αγγλικός)

Noun

1. (uncountable) Sucrose in the form of small crystals, obtained from sugar cane or sugar beet and used to sweeten food and drink.
2. (countable) A specific variety of sugar.
3. (countable) Any of various small carbohydrates that are used by organisms to store energy.
4. (countable) A small serving of this substance (typically about one teaspoon), used to sweeten a drink.
5. (countable) A term of endearment.
6. (slang, uncountable) Affection shown by kisses or kissing.
7. (Southern, US, slang, uncountable) Effeminacy in a male, often implying homosexuality.
8. (informal, uncountable) Diabetes.
9. (countable, dated, uncountable) Anything resembling sugar in taste or appearance, especially in chemistry.
10. (countable, uncountable) Compliment or flattery used to disguise or render acceptable something obnoxious; honeyed or soothing words.
11. (US, slang, uncountable) Heroin.
12. (US, dated, slang, uncountable) Money.
13. (countable, uncountable) Syntactic sugar.

Verb

1. (transitive) To add sugar to; to sweeten with sugar.
2. (transitive) To make (something unpleasant) seem less so.
3. (Canada, US, regional) In making maple sugar, to complete the process of boiling down the syrup till it is thick enough to crystallize; to approach or reach the state of granulation; with the preposition off.
4. To apply sugar to trees or plants in order to catch moths.
5. (transitive) To rewrite (source code) using syntactic sugar.
6. (transitive) To compliment (a person).
7. To remove hair using a paste of sugar, water, and lemon juice.

Intj

Shit!

Έννοιες

ζάχαρη

σάκχαρο

ζαχαρώνω

ζάχαρι

ζάχαρο

ψιλή ζάχαρη

záchari

χρήμα

παραδάκι

παράδες

’zaxari

γλυκό κορίτσι

λεφτά

ζάκχαρι

Συνώνυμα

sweeten

candy

🍬

saccharide

refined sugar

saccharify

sweet

honey

🍯

syrup

lolly

loot

lucre

pelf

moolah

bread

🍞

dinero

simoleons

sugar cane

boodle

dough

scratch

cabbage

sucrose

sugarcoat

gelt

carbohydrate

clams

kale

wampum

lettuce

granulated sugar

shekels

butter tart

brown sugar

darling

flatter

flying squirrel

glider

jaggery

raw sugar

salary

season

spice

sugarcane

sugary

sweetheart

sweets

wage

white sugar

diabetes

heroin

Μεταφράσεις

sucre

Zucker

azúcar

zucchero

açúcar

suiker

sucre

şeker

sucrer

saccharum

zuccherare

sucre

سكر

şekir

Προφέρεται ως (IPA)

/ˈʃʊɡə(ɹ)/

Ετυμολογία (Αγγλικός)

Κληρονομήθηκε από Μέσα Αγγλικά: sugre

Συγγενές με Αρχαία Ελληνικά: κρόκη

In summary

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ḱorkeh₂
Proto-Indo-Iranian *ćárkaraH
Proto-Indo-Aryan *śárkaraH
Sanskrit शर्करा (śárkarā)
Gandhari 𐨭𐨐𐨪 (śakara)bor.
Middle Persian 𐭱𐭪𐭥 (šakar)bor.
Arabic سُكَّر (sukkar)bor.
Old Italian zuccherobor.
Old French çucrebor.
Middle English sugre
English sugar
Inherited from Middle English sugre, 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 शर्करा (śárkarā), from Proto-Indo-Aryan *śárkaraH, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *ćárkaraH, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱorkeh₂ (“gravel”).
Akin to Ancient Greek κρόκη (krókē, “pebble”), whence the words crocodile and krokodil are derived. Doublet of jaggery, sucro-, crocodile, and krokodil.
The verb is from Middle English sugren, from the noun.