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سكر

Root entry · 1 derived lemma

سُكَّرٌ ذ [ Sugar; ] a certain sweet substance, (TA,) well known: (Msb, TA:) a Pers. word, (S,) arabicized, (S, K,) from شَكَرْ: (K:) n. un. with ة [signifying a piece of sugar ]: (S, K:) it is hot and moist, accord. to the most correct opinion; but some say, cold: and the best sort of it is the transparent, called طَبَرْزَذٌ; and the old is more delicate than the new: it is injurious to the stomach, engendering yellow bile; but the juice of the لَيْمُون and نَارَنْج counteract its noxiousness: it is said to be a word recently introduced; but some say that it occurs in one trad. (TA.) ― -b2- Also Like سُكَّر [or sugar ] in sweetness: so used by Aboo-Ziyád El-Kilábee. (TA.) ― -b3- Also A certain kind of sweet fresh ripe dates; (K;) a sort of fresh ripe dates, likened to sugar in sweetness: (Mgh:) or a kind of very sweet dates; (AHát, T, Msb;) known to the people of ElBahreyn, (T,) and in Sijilmáseh and Dar'ah, and, as some say, in El-Medeeneh, where, how- ever, they require to be dried artificially. (MF.) ― -b4- A kind of grapes, which, being affected by what is termed مَرَق, fall off, (K,) for the most part: their bunches are of middling size; and they are white, juicy, and very sweet, (TA,) of the best kinds of grapes; (K;) and are made into raisins. (TA.)

Derived headwords

سُكَّرٌ
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