ܫܟܪ škr vocalized as šekar, or šākkār sugar, Saccharum officinarium
MP šakar [škl] sugar (CPD 79); ManMP šqr /šakar/ id. (Durkin-Meisterernst 2004, 318); NP šakar, šakkar sugar (Steingass 752). The word for "sugar" is of Indian origin: MInd. sakkharā- candied sugar (of Mon-Khmer origin, according to Turner 1966, no. 12338, then identified with MInd. sakkarā-, outcome of an older śarkarā- gravel, grit) was borrowed into Gr. σάκχαρ, -ον, from which Lat. saccharum (Frisk II 672), and into MP, NP šakar. Through Iranian, the MInd. word passed to Syr. škr, Md. šikar (Drower – Macuch 1963, 462), and Arab. sukkar (whence It. zucchero, Germ. Zucker, Engl. sugar etc.). See Laufer 1919, 576 and 585; Mancini 1992, 22 and 98 ● Sind 10, 4; Bh chr 276, 7; Nom 141u; EN 34, 73 ◆ LS 777b