сахаръ
Old Ruthenian
Alternative forms
- са́хуръ (sáxur)
Etymology
Etymology tree
Inherited from Old East Slavic са́харъ (sáxarŭ), borrowed from Ancient Greek σάκχαρ (sákkhar), borrowed from Pali sakkharā, from Sanskrit शर्करा (śarkarā), from Proto-Indo-Aryan *śárkaraH, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *ćárkaraH, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱorkeh₂ (“gravel”). Doublet of цу́коръ (cúkor)
Noun
сахаръ • (saxar) m inan
Descendants
Further reading
- Bulyka, A. M., editor (2011), “сахаръ, сахуръ”, in Гістарычны слоўнік беларускай мовы [Historical Dictionary of the Belarusian Language] (in Belarusian), numbers 31 (рушаючий – смущенье), Minsk: Belaruskaia navuka, →ISBN, page 68