sukar

su (“fire”) +‎ gar (“flame”)

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sukar inan

1. (Labourdin) flame
2. fever

• Gorka Aulestia, Linda White, Basque-English, English-Basque dictionary (1992), page 492, entry "sukar".

Inherited from Malay sukar.

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈsukar/ [ˈsu.kar]
• Rhymes: -ukar
• Syllabification: su‧kar

sukar (comparative lebih sukar, superlative paling sukar)

1. difficult, hard, troublesome

   Synonyms: muskil, sulit

2. rare

   Synonym: jarang

3. chronic (of disease)
4. poor, needy, destitute

   Synonym: miskin

• “sukar” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

From Arabic سُكَّر (sukkar).

• IPA^(key): /ˈsukaɾ/, [ˈsu.kaɾ]

sukar

1. sugar

• Ian Smith, Morris Timothy Ama (1985) A Dictionary of Juba Arabic & English‎^[1], 1st edition, Juba: The Committee of The Juba Cheshire Home and Centre for Handicapped Children, page 174

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sukar (Jawi spelling سوکر)

1. difficult

• kesukaran
• menyukarkan

• susah

• “sukar” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.