Sugar

See also: sugar and sugár

English

Etymology

• As a Hungarian surname, from the noun sugár (“light ray”).
• As a German and Jewish surname, semantic loan from German Zucker (“sugar”).

Noun

Sugar

1. (World War II era, joint US/RAF) radiotelephony clear-code word for the letter S.

   Synonym: Sierra

Proper noun

Sugar (plural Sugars)

1. A surname.

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Sugar is the 19390^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 1394 individuals. Sugar is most common among White (87.66%) individuals.

Anagrams

• Argus, Guras, argus, gaurs, guars, ragus, ragùs

Cebuano

Etymology

From English Sugar, from sugar, from Middle English sugre, sucre, from Middle French sucre, from Old French çucre, from Old Italian zúccharo, from Arabic سُكَّر (sukkar), from Persian شکر (šakar), from Middle Persian škl (šakar) (Manichaean Middle Persian 𐫢𐫞𐫡 (šqr)), from Sanskrit शर्करा (śárkarā, “ground or candied sugar", originally "grit, gravel”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱorkeh₂ (“gravel, boulder”), akin to Ancient Greek κρόκη (krókē, “pebble”).

Proper noun

Sugar

1. a female given name from English