açucar

• acucar, açuquar, açuquare, açuquer, asuquare

Borrowed from Andalusian Arabic السُكَّر (as-sukkar), from Arabic سُكَّر (sukkar), borrowed from Middle Persian 𐭱𐭪𐭥 (šakar), borrowed from Gandhari 𐨭𐨐𐨪 (śakara), from Sanskrit शर्करा (śárkarā), from Proto-Indo-Aryan *śárkaraH, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *ćárkaraH, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱorkeh₂ (“gravel”).

Cognate with Old Spanish açucar.

• IPA^(key): /aˈt͡sukaɾ/
• Rhymes: -ukaɾ
• Hyphenation: a‧çu‧car

açúcar m (plural açúcares)

1. sugar

• Fala: azuca, azúcar
• Galician: azucre
• Portuguese: açúcar (see there for further descendants)

• Cunha, Antônio Geraldo da (2020–2025), “açúcar”, in Vocabulário histórico-cronológico do Português Medieval [Historical and chronological vocabullary of Medieval Portuguese] (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Fundação Casa de Rui Barbosa
• Machado, José Pedro (1995), “açúcar”, in Dicionário etimológico da língua portuguesa [Etymological dictionary of the Portuguese language] (in Portuguese), 7 edition, volume I, Lisboa: Livros Horizonte, →ISBN, page 91, column 2

açucar m (plural açucares)

1. pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal) of açúcar

This spelling was less common than assucar prior to the first spelling reforms.