سکر

See also: سكر, سكز, شكر, شکر, and ش ك ر

Persian

Etymology

From Arabic verbal noun سُكْر (sukr). Perhaps extracted from the root of Arabic مُسْكِر (muskir), from Middle Persian mstgr (mastgar, “inebriating”).

Pronunciation

 

Readings
Classical reading? sukr
Dari reading? sukr
Iranian reading? sokr
Tajik reading? sukr

Noun

سکر • (sokr)

  1. drunkenness
  2. intoxication

Synonyms

References

  • Durkin-Meisterernst, Desmond (2004), “mstgr”, in A Dictionary of Manichaean Middle Persian and Parthian (Corpus Fontium Manichaeorum; 3.1), Turnhout: Brepols
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