сахаръ

Old Ruthenian

са́харъ

Alternative forms

са́хуръ

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. Cognate with Russian са́хар (sáxar).

Noun

са́харъ • (transliteration needed) m inan

sugar
Synonym: цу́коръ

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), issue 31 (рушаючий – смущенье), Minsk: Belaruskaia navuka, →ISBN, page 68

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