azúcar
sugarsustancia dulce que se obtiene de la caña o la remolacha
Comes from Arabic
السُّكَّر
as-sukkar
“the sugar”«el azúcar»
Arabic today says
سُكَّر
sukkar
And it still does
The article
Spanish kept the Arabic article al- glued to the word.
Arabic itself had taken it from Persian, which took it from Sanskrit.
The story
S is a sun letter, so al-sukkar is said as-sukkar — hence the a- of azúcar. Arabic took the word from Persian šakar, which comes from Sanskrit śarkarā.La s es letra solar: al-sukkar se pronuncia as-sukkar, y de ahí la a- de azúcar. El árabe lo tomó del persa šakar, que viene del sánscrito śarkarā.
In a sentence
¿Tomas el café con azúcar?
Do you take your coffee with sugar?
هَلْ تَشْرَبُ القَهْوَةَ بِالسُّكَّر؟
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