сахаръ

Old Ruthenian

са́харъ

Alternative forms

• са́хуръ (sáxur)

Etymology

Inherited from Old East Slavic са́харъ (sáxarŭ), further borrowed from Ancient Greek σάκχαρ (sákkhar), borrowed from Pali sakkharā, from Sanskrit शर्करा (śárkarā), from Proto-Indo-Aryan *śárkaraH, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *ćárkaraH, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱorkeh₂. Doublet of цу́коръ (cúkor). Cognate with Russian са́хар (sáxar).

Noun

сахаръ • (saxar) m inan

1. sugar

   Synonym: цу́коръ (cúkor)

Descendants

• Belarusian: са́хар (sáxar) (dialectal)
• Ukrainian: са́хар (sáxar)

Further reading

• Bulyka, A. M., editor (2011), “сахаръ, сахуръ”, in Гістарычны слоўнік беларускай мовы [Historical Dictionary of the Belarusian Language] (in Belarusian), numbers 31 (рушаючий – смущенье), Minsk: Belaruskaia navuka, →ISBN, page 68