sugre
Appearance
Middle English
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Borrowed from Middle French sucre, from Old French çucre, from Old Italian zuccaro, from Arabic سُكَّر (sukkar), from Persian شکر, from Middle Persian škl (šakar), from Sanskrit शर्करा (śarkarā).
Alternative forms
[edit]- sewgyr, succer, succere, sucere, sucre, suger, sugowr, sugr, sugur, sugure, sugyr, sugyre, sukyr, zugere, zuker, zukur
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]sugre (uncountable)
- sugar (crystallised sucrose used as a sweetener)
- (figurative, rare) Nutrition, nourishment, delight, sweetness.
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- “sugre, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-28.
Etymology 2
[edit]Verb
[edit]sugre
- Alternative form of sugren
Categories:
- Middle English terms borrowed from Middle French
- Middle English terms derived from Middle French
- Middle English terms derived from Old French
- Middle English terms derived from Old Italian
- Middle English terms derived from Arabic
- Middle English terms derived from Persian
- Middle English terms derived from Middle Persian
- Middle English terms derived from Sanskrit
- Middle English terms with IPA pronunciation
- Middle English lemmas
- Middle English nouns
- Middle English uncountable nouns
- Middle English terms with rare senses
- Middle English verbs
- enm:Cooking
- enm:Sugars