sukár

Hamer-Banna

Etymology

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ḱorkeh₂
Proto-Indo-Iranian *ćárkaraH
Proto-Indo-Aryan *śárkaraH
Sanskrit शर्क॑रा (śárkarā)
Gandhari 𐨭𐨐𐨪 (śakara)bor.
Middle Persian 𐭱𐭪𐭥 (šakar)bor.
Arabic سُكَّر (sukkar)bor.
Amharic ስኳር (səkʷar)bor.
Hamer-Banna sukár

    Borrowed from Amharic ስኳር (səkʷar).

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /sukár/, [sukár̥]

    Noun

    sukár (plural sukárra, feminine sukárro)

    1. sugar
      Synonym: shai

    References

    • Yona Takahashi (2015), “A Small Dictionary of Hamar with Some Lexical Notes on Banna and Karo”, in Studies in Ethiopian Languages‎[1], number 4, page 69 of 35-75
    This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.