sucre

From Spanish Sucre, from the name of Venezuelan independence leader Antonio José de Sucre.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsuːkɹeɪ/

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sucre (plural sucres)

1. The former currency of Ecuador, divided into 100 centavos.

• Cruse, Cures, crues, cruse, cuers, cures, curse, ecrus

Borrowed from Arabic سُكَّر (sukkar).

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈsu.kɾə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈsu.kɾe]

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sucre m (plural sucres)

1. sugar

• “sucre”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “sucre”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
• “sucre” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “sucre” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Inherited from Middle French sucre, borrowed from Old French çucre, borrowed from Old Italian zucchero, borrowed from Arabic سُكَّر (sukkar), borrowed from Middle Persian 𐭱𐭪𐭥 (šakar), borrowed from Gandhari 𐨭𐨐𐨪 (śakara), from Sanskrit शर्क॑रा (śárkarā), from Proto-Indo-Aryan *śárkaraH, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *ćárkaraH, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱorkeh₂ (“gravel”).

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sucre m (plural sucres)

1. sugar

• Haitian Creole: sik
• →⇒ Danish: sucrose
• →⇒ English: sucrose
• → Malecite-Passamaquoddy: sukol (or from English)
• → Mango: súkàr
• → Rade: sĭk

• “sucre”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

• crues, crûes, cures, curés, écrus, reçus, sucer

sucre

1. alternative form of sugre

sucre oblique singular, m (nominative singular sucres)

1. alternative form of çucre

Borrowed from Spanish sucre.

sucre m (plural sucres)

1. sucre

From the name of Venezuelan independence leader Antonio José de Sucre.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsukɾe/ [ˈsu.kɾe]
• Rhymes: -ukɾe
• Syllabification: su‧cre

sucre m (plural sucres)

1. sucre (former currency of Ecuador)

• “sucre”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025