sucre

From Spanish Sucre, from the name of Venezuelan independence leader Antonio José de Sucre.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsuːkɹeɪ/

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sucre (plural sucres)

1. The former currency of Ecuador, divided into 100 centavos.

• Cruse, Cures, crues, cruse, cuers, cures, curse, ecrus

From Arabic سُكَّر (sukkar), from Persian شکر (šekar), from Sanskrit शर्करा (śárkarā, “ground or candied sugar”); see sugar for more details.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈsu.kɾə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈsu.kɾe]

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sucre m (plural sucres)

1. sugar

• “sucre” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “sucre”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “sucre” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “sucre” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

From Old French çucre, from Old Italian zucchero (or another vernacular of Italy),^[1] from Arabic سُكَّر (sukkar), from Persian شکر (šekar), from Sanskrit शर्करा (śárkarā, “ground or candied sugar”, originally “grit, gravel”); see sugar for more details.

• IPA^(key): /sykʁ/

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sucre m (plural sucres)

1. sugar

• Haitian Creole: sik
• →⇒ Danish: sucrose
• →⇒ English: sucrose
• → Malecite-Passamaquoddy: sukol (or from English)
• → Mango: súkàr
• → Rade: sĭk

• “sucre”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• crues, crûes, cures, curés, écrus, reçus, sucer

sucre

1. Alternative form of sugre

sucre oblique singular, m (nominative singular sucres)

1. Alternative form of çucre

Borrowed from Spanish sucre.

sucre m (plural sucres)

1. sucre

Spanish Wikipedia has an article on:

Sucre ecuatoriano

Wikipedia ^es

From the name of Venezuelan independence leader Antonio José de Sucre.

sucre m (plural sucres)

1. sucre (former currency of Ecuador)

• “sucre”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28