sugre

Borrowed from Middle French sucre, 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”).

• sewgyr, succer, succere, sucere, sucre, suger, sugowr, sugr, sugur, sugure, sugyr, sugyre, sukyr, zugere, zuker, zukur

• IPA^(key): /ˈsiu̯ɡər/, /ˈsiu̯ɡrə/, /ˈsiu̯kər/

sugre (uncountable)

1. sugar (crystallised sucrose used as a sweetener)
2. (figurative, rare) Nutrition, nourishment, delight, sweetness.

• suger candy
• suger lof
• sugren

• English: sugar (see there for further descendants)
• Scots: succar

• “sugre, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 28 July 2018.

sugre

1. alternative form of sugren