شكر

Compare Hebrew שָׂכָר (sakhár, “payment, reward”).

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شَكَرَ • (šakara) I (non-past يَشْكُرُ (yaškuru), verbal noun شُكْر (šukr) or شُكْرَان (šukrān))

1. to thank, to be thankful, to be grateful

   شَكَرَ لَهُ عَمَلَهُ ― šakara lahu ʕamalahu ― He thanked him for his work.

2. to praise, to laud, to extol
3. to acknowledge, to acknowledge goodness

• IPA^(key): /ʃukr/

شُكْر • (šukr) m

1. verbal noun of شَكَرَ (šakara) (form I)
2. thankfulness, gratitude

• جُحُود (juḥūd)

• شُكْراً (šukran, “thanks”, interjection)
• شُكْرِيّ (šukriyy, “of thanks, thanking”, adjective)
• شُكْرِيّ (šukriyy, a male given name, Shukri, meaning ‘thankful’)
• شُكْرِيَّة (šukriyya, a female given name, Shukriyya, meaning ‘thankful’)

• → Azerbaijani: şükr, şükür
• → Bashkir: шөкөр (şökör)
• → Bengali: শোকর (śōkor)
• → Chagatai: شکر
  • Uyghur: شۈكۈر (shükür)
  • Uzbek: shukr, shukur, Shukur
• → Hindustani:
  • Hindi: शुक्र (śukr)
  • Urdu: شُکْر (śukr)
• → Javanese: ꦱꦺꦴꦏꦸꦂ (sokur), ꦱꦸꦏꦸꦂ (sukur)
• → Kazakh: шүкір (şükır)
• → Malay: syukur
  • Indonesian: syukur
  • → Ternate: suku
  • → Tausug: sukul
• → Ottoman Turkish: شُكْر (şükr)
  • Turkish: şükür
  • → Ladino: shukur
  • → Serbo-Croatian:
    • Cyrillic script: шућур
    • Latin script: šućur
• → Pashto: شکر (šukr)
• → Persian: شکر (šokr)
• → Punjabi:
  • Gurmukhi script: ਸ਼ੁਕਰ (śukr)
  • Shahmukhi script: شُکْر (śukr)
• → Sindhi: شُڪُرُ (śukuru)
• → Swahili: shukuru
• → Tatar: шөкер (şöker)
• → Turkmen: şükür

(Indo-Aryan interjections meaning ‘thank you’, all derived from شُكْر (šukr) + ـِيَّة (-iyya) (not borrowed from Arabic شُكْرِيَّة (šukriyya)):

• ⇒ Bengali: শুকরিয়া (śukriẏa)
• ⇒ Dhivehi: ޝުކުރިއްޔާ (šukuriyyā)
• ⇒ Hindustani:
  • Hindi: शुक्रिया (śukriyā)
  • Urdu: شُکْرِیَہ (śukriya)
• ⇒ Punjabi:
  • Gurmukhi script: ਸ਼ੁਕਰੀਆ (śukrīā)
  • Shahmukhi script: شُکْرِیَہ (śukriyah)

Borrowed from Persian شكر & Ottoman Turkish شکر (šakar)

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• (Sharg sub-dialect, Kuwait) IPA^(key): /ʃɪkər/
• (Finṭās sub-dialect, Kuwait) IPA^(key): /ʃəkər/
• (Jibla sub-dialect, Kuwait) IPA^(key): /ʃəkɪr/

See usage notes.

شكر • (šikar, šakar, šakir) m

1. (uncountable) sugar

In Kuwait, some people use the Standard Arabic form (سُكَّر (sukkar)) instead as the pronunciation can be a shibboleth.

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish شکر (şeker)

شَكَر (šakar) m

1. sugar

Borrowed from Persian شکر (šakar), from Middle Persian 𐭱𐭪𐭥 (šakar), from Sanskrit शर्करा (śárkarā, “ground or candied sugar, originally meaning grit, gravel”).

شكر • (şeker)

1. sugar, sucrose obtained by various plants, such as the sugar cane or the sugar beet

   به شکر به شاب ― neither fish nor fowl (literally, “better sugar or alum”)

2. sugar-plum, comfit, a round or oval piece of candy made of boiled sugar

• Turkish: şeker
• → Adyghe: шэкэр (šɛkɛr)
• → Albanian: sheqer
• → Armenian: շեքեր (šekʻer)
• → Bulgarian: шеке́р (šekér)
• → Central Kurdish: شەکر (şekir)
• → Crimean Tatar: şeker
• → Gagauz: şeker
• → Gulf Arabic: شكر (shákar)
• → Iraqi Arabic: شكر (shákar)
• → Ladino: sheker
• → Laz: შექერი (şekeri), შეჩერი (şeçeri) — Atina, Vizha, Artasheni
• → Macedonian: шеќер (šeḱer)
• → Northern Kurdish: şekir
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: шећер

  Latin script: šećer

• → Zazaki: şeker

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “şeker”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4450
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “شكر”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 288b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “شكر”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 731
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Saccharum”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[3], Vienna, column 1498
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “شكر”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, columns 2839–2840
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “شكر”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1131

Borrowed from Arabic شُكْر (šukr, “thankfulness, gratitude”), verbal noun of شَكَرَ (šakara, “to be thankful or gratelful”).

شكر • (şükr, vulg. şükür)

1. thankfulness, gratitude, gratefulness, the state of being thankful

   Synonym: شكران (şükran)

• Turkish: şükür
• → Albanian: shyqyr
• → Ladino: shukur
• → Macedonian: шуќур (šuḱur)
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: шућур

  Latin script: šućur

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “şükür1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4506
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “شكر”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[6], Vienna: F. Beck, page 289a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “شكر”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[7] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 731
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Gratia”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[8], Vienna, column 665
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “شكر”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[9], Vienna, column 2841
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “şükür”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “شكر”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[10], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1131

From Arabic شَكَرَ (šakara).

• IPA^(key): /ʃa.kar/, [ˈʃa.kar]

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شكر • (šakar) I (present بشكر (boškor))

1. to thank

   أشكرك (formal, to a male) ― ʔaškorak ― I thank you

   أشكرك (formal, to a female) ― ʔaškorek ― I thank you

• شكرا (šukran, “thanks, thank you”)