iswekile

Xhosa

Etymology

Borrowed from Afrikaans suiker, from Dutch suiker, from Middle Dutch suicker, suker, a borrowing from Old French çucre (circa 13th cent), from Old Italian zucchero, from Arabic سُكَّر (sukkar), from Classical Persian شکر (šakar), from Sanskrit शर्करा (śárkarā, “ground or candied sugar", originally "grit, gravel”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱorkeh₂ (“gravel, boulder”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ísʷékiːle]

Noun

íswékile class 9 (plural íiswékile class 10)

  1. sugar

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

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