tswekere
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Sotho[edit]
Etymology[edit]
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 Persian شکر (šakar), from Sanskrit शर्करा (śárkarā, “ground or candied sugar", originally "grit, gravel”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱorkeh₂ (“gravel, boulder”).
Noun[edit]
tswekere class 9/10 (plural ditswekere)
Categories:
- Sotho terms borrowed from Afrikaans
- Sotho terms derived from Afrikaans
- Sotho terms derived from Dutch
- Sotho terms derived from Middle Dutch
- Sotho terms derived from Old French
- Sotho terms derived from Old Italian
- Sotho terms derived from Arabic
- Sotho terms derived from Persian
- Sotho terms derived from Sanskrit
- Sotho terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Sotho lemmas
- Sotho nouns
- Sotho class 9 nouns
- Sotho class 10 nouns