Sugar

See also: sugar and sugár

English

Etymology

  • As a Hungarian surname, from the adjective sugár (“tall, well-built”, literally “radius”).
  • As a German and Jewish surname, semantic loan from German Zucker (“sugar”).

Noun

Sugar

  1. (World War II era, joint US/RAF) radiotelephony clear-code word for the letter S.
    Synonym: Sierra

Proper noun

Sugar (plural Sugars)

  1. A surname.

Statistics

  • According to the 2010 United States Census, Sugar is the 19390th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 1394 individuals. Sugar is most common among White (87.66%) individuals.

Anagrams

Cebuano

Etymology

From English Sugar, from sugar, from Middle English sugre, sucre, from Middle French sucre, from Old French çucre, from Old Italian zúccharo, from Arabic سُكَّر‎ (sukkar), from Persian شکر‎ (šakar), from Middle Persian škl (šakar) (Manichaean Middle Persian 𐫢𐫞𐫡‎ (šqr)), from Sanskrit शर्करा (śárkarā, “ground or candied sugar", originally "grit, gravel”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱorkeh₂ (“gravel, boulder”), akin to Ancient Greek κρόκη (krókē, “pebble”).

Proper noun

Sugar

  1. a female given name from English
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