azúcar

Inherited from Old Spanish açúcar, borrowed from Arabic سُكَّر (sukkar), via Andalusian Arabic. Cognate with English sugar.

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /aˈθukaɾ/ [aˈθu.kaɾ]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /aˈsukaɾ/ [aˈsu.kaɾ]
• Rhymes: -ukaɾ
• Syllabification: a‧zú‧car

azúcar m or f same meaning (plural azúcares)

1. sugar

• Depending on dialect, when azúcar is immediately preceded by the article, it may be el, even when construed as feminine, even though the initial a is not stressed.
• Per the Real Academia Española, azúcar is normally masculine when used in a chemical sense.

• → Bikol Central: asukar
• → Cebuano: asukar
• → Chamorro: asukat
• → Guaraní: asuka
• → Hiligaynon: asukar
• → Ilocano: asukar
• → Limos Kalinga: asukal
• → Quechua: asukar
• → Tagalog: asukal
• → Waray-Waray: asukar
• → Yucatec Maya: asukaar

• “azúcar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28