Source etymology 1 · variant 1/2
Original entry ↗Crystallized sugar formed by boiling down sugar syrup. · Edible, sweet-tasting confectionery containing sugar, or sometimes artificial sweeteners, and often flavored with fruit, chocolate, nuts, herbs and spices, or artificial flavors. · A piece of confectionery of this kind. · crack cocaine.
From Middle English sugre candy, from Old French sucre candi (literally “candied sugar”), from Arabic سُكَّر قَنْدِي (sukkar qandī), from Arabic قَنْد (qand, “rock candy”), from Persian کند (kand) from Sanskrit खण्ड (khaṇḍa, “piece, fragment, candied sugar, dried molasses”), root खण्ड् (khaṇḍ, “to divide, break into pieces”), or from Proto-Dravidian *kaṇṭu; compare Tamil கண்டு (kaṇṭu, “hard candy”).
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- Root classification mentionखण्ड्sa
- Derivation mentionsugre candyenm
- Derivation mentionsucre candifro
- Derivation mentionسُكَّر قَنْدِيar
- Derivation mentionقَنْدar · rock candy
- Derivation mentionکندfa
- Derivation mentionखण्डsa · piece, fragment, candied sugar, dried molasses
- Derivation mention*kaṇṭudra-pro
- Cognate mentionகண்டுta · hard candy
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