Zucker

Borrowed from German Zucker.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈzʌ.kə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈzʌ.kəɹ/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ʌkə(ɹ)
• Hyphenation: Zuc‧ker

Zucker (plural Zuckers)

1. A surname from German.

Zucker (plural Zuckers)

2. Ellipsis of Zucker rat.
   • 2012, Obesity: New Insights for the Healthcare Professional, page 56:

     Obese Zuckers, compared to leans, consumed more food under free-feeding conditions.

• Zucker (surname) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡sʊ.kɐ/

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• Audio (Austria):

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• Rhymes: -ʊkɐ
• Hyphenation: Zu‧cker

From Middle High German zucker, from Old High German zuckar, from early Italian zucchero, from Arabic سُكَّر (sukkar), from Persian شکر (šakar), from Sanskrit शर्करा (śárkarā, “grit, gravel; ground or candied sugar”). Cognates include Czech cukr, Hungarian cukor and Dutch suiker.

• Zukker

Zucker m (strong, genitive Zuckers, plural Zucker)

1. (usually uncountable) sugar

   ein Stück Zucker ― a lump of sugar

2. (uncountable, slightly informal) diabetes

   Synonyms: Diabetes, Zuckerkrankheit

   Zucker haben ― to be a diabetic

• → Czech: cukr
• → Kashubian: cëczer
• → Estonian: suhkur
• → Livonian: sukkur
  • → Latvian: cukurs
    • → Livonian: tsukkõr
• → Hungarian: cukor
• → Lower Sorbian: cukor
• → Polish: cukier
  • → Old Ruthenian: цꙋкоръ (cukor), цу́коръ (cúkor), цю́коръ (cjúkor)
    • Belarusian: цу́кар (cúkar)
    • Carpathian Rusyn: цу́кор (cúkor)
    • Ukrainian: цу́кор (cúkor); цу́кар (cúkar), цу́кер (cúker), цу́кур (cúkur) (dialectal)
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: цу̏кар, цу̏кер

  Latin script: cȕkar, cȕker

• → Slovene: cuker
• → Slovak: cukor
• → Upper Sorbian: cokor

Zucker m or f (proper noun, surname, masculine genitive Zuckers or (with an article) Zucker, feminine genitive Zucker, plural Zuckers or Zucker)

1. a surname

• English: Zucker
• Polish: Cukier

From zucken +‎ -er.

Zucker m (strong, genitive Zuckers, plural Zucker)

1. (chiefly Austria, informal) a twitching, jerking motion

   Synonym: Zuck

• Auszucker

• Zuckerl
• Zuckerberg

• “Zucker” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “Zucker” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
• “Zucker” in Duden online

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡suka/
• Rhymes: -uka
• Syllabification: Zuc‧ker

Zucker m (plural Zuckre)

1. sugar

   Ich drinke Kaffii mit Zucker. ― I drink coffee with sugar.

   Zufiel Zucker is net gud fer die Zeen. ― Too much sugar isn't good for the teeth.

• Boll, Piter Kehoma (2021), “Zucker”, in Dicionário Hunsriqueano Riograndense–Português, 3rd edition (overall work in Portuguese), Ivoti: Riograndenser Hunsrickisch