शक्कर

Borrowed from Classical Persian شکر (šak(k)ar), ultimately from Sanskrit शर्करा (śárkarā, “ground or candied sugar, originally grit, gravel”). Doublet of शर्करा (śarkarā). Cognate of English sugar.

• (Standard Hindi) IPA^(key): /ʃək.kəɾ/, [ʃɐk̚.kɐɾ]

शक्कर • (śakkar) f (Urdu spelling شکر)

1. sugar (raw)

   शक्कर प्रायः पानी में घुल जाता है।

   śakkar prāyaḥ pānī mẽ ghul jātā hai.

   Sugar usually dissolves in water.

2. sweet words or speech

• चीनी (cīnī)
• (less common) शर्करा (śarkarā)

• McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993), “शक्कर”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press
• Platts, John T. (1884), “शक्कर”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.