škl

See also: SKL and skl

Middle Persian

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *ḱorkeh₂

Proto-Indo-Iranian *ćárkaraH

Proto-Indo-Aryan *śárkaraH

Sanskrit शर्करा (śárkarā)

Gandhari 𐨭𐨐𐨪 (śakara)bor.

Middle Persian škl

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”). Compare Manichaean Middle Persian 𐫢𐫞𐫡 (šqr /⁠šakar⁠/).

Noun

škl • (šakar)

sugar

Descendants

Classical Persian: شَکَر (šakar), شَکَّر (šakkar) (see there for further descendants)
→ Arabic: سُكَّر (sukkar) (see there for further descendants)
→ Aramaic:
- Classical Syriac: ܫܟܪ (šekkar)
→ Mingrelian: შანქარი (šankari)
→ Old Armenian: շաքար (šakʻar)
- Middle Armenian: շաքար (šakʻar)
  - Armenian: շաքար (šakʻar)
  - →? Middle Georgian: შაქარი (šakari)
    - Georgian: შაქარი (šakari)
      - → Abkhaz: ашьақар (ašakar)
      - → Mingrelian: შანქარი (šankari)
      - → Svan: შაქარ (šakar)

References

MacKenzie, D. N. (1971), “šakar”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 79