cukari

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Kikuyu

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Swahili sukari,[1][2] from Arabic سُكَّر (sukkar), from Persian شکر (šakar), from Middle Persian 𐭱𐭪𐭥 (škʿ /⁠šakar⁠/), from Sanskrit शर्करा (śarkarā, ground or candied sugar, originally meaning grit, gravel).

Pronunciation

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This a is pronounced long.[1]
As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 1 with a trisyllabic stem, together with kĩberethi, mbogoro, and so on.
  • (Kiambu)

Noun

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cukari class 14

  1. sugar
    cukari wa nguru - molasses, treacle[1]
    mũrimũ wa cukari - diabetes[4]

See also

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References

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  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 “cukari” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 73. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
  2. ^ Baldi, Sergio (2011) “Swahili: A Donor Language”, in Lingua Posnaniensis[1], volume 53, number 1, →DOI, page 21 of 7-24
  3. ^ Yukawa, Yasutoshi (1981). "A Tentative Tonal Analysis of Kikuyu Nouns: A Study of Limuru Dialect." In Journal of Asian and African Studies, No. 22, 75–123.
  4. ^ Njagi, James Kinyua. (2016). "Lexical Borrowing and Semantic Change: A Case of English and Gĩkũyũ Contact", p. 32.