sukur

From Danish sukker, from Middle Low German sucker, from Italian zucchero, from Arabic سُكَّر (sukkar), from Persian شکر (šekar), from Sanskrit शर्करा (śarkarā, “ground or candied sugar, originally meaning grit, gravel”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈsuːkʊɹ/

sukur m (genitive singular sukurs, uncountable)

1. sugar (sucrose from sugar cane or sugar beet and used to sweeten food and drink)

• mjólkarsukur
• drúvusukur
• vínberjasukur
• vaniljusukur
• putursukur
• súltusukur
• sukurrør
• sukurrót

• hunangur
• siropur
• sinnopur
• edikur
• salt
• pipar
• olja
• olivinolja
• sólblómuolja
• víndrúvukjarnuolja

Reborrowed from Malay syukur, from Arabic شُكْر (šukr).

• IPA^(key): [ˈsu.kuɾ]

sukur

1. Alternative form of suku (“thanks, gratitude”)

• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh