Zucker

From Middle High German zucker, from Old High German zuckar, from early Italian zucchero, from Arabic سُكَّر‎ (sukkar), from Persian شکر‎ (šakar), from Sanskrit शर्करा (śárkarā, “ground or candied sugar", originally "grit, gravel”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱorkeh₂ (“gravel, boulder”). Cognates include Czech cukr and Dutch suiker.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtsʊkɐ/
• Rhymes: -ʊkɐ
• Hyphenation: Zu‧cker
• Hyphenation: Zuk‧ker (dated)

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Zucker m (genitive Zuckers, plural Zucker)

1. (usually uncountable) sugar

   ein Stück Zucker ― a lump of sugar

2. (uncountable, slightly informal) diabetes

• (diabetes): Diabetes; Zuckerkrankheit

• → Czech: cukr
• → Estonian: suhkur
• → Livonian: sukker
  • → Latvian: cukurs
    • → Livonian: tsukkõr
• → Hungarian: cukor
• → Polish: cukier
  • → Belarusian: цу́кар (cúkar)
  • → Ukrainian: цу́кор (cúkor), цу́кар (cúkar), цу́кер (cúker), цу́кур (cúkur)
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: цукар

  Latin: cukar, cuker

• → Slovene: cuker
• → Slovak: cukor
• → Upper Sorbian: cokor

• Zuckerl
• Zuckerberg

• Zucker in Duden online

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡sukɐ/

Zucker m (plural Zuckre)

1. sugar

   Ich drinke Kaffii mit Zucker.

   I drink coffee with sugar.

   Zufiel Zucker is net gud fer die Zeen.

   Too much sugar isn't good for the teeth.

• Zuckerbrod
• Zuckerschot
• Zuckerstang
• zuckre
• zuckrich

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