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'sharkara', which became 'shakar' in Arabic and Persia and into Europe in Spanish as 'azucar',
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The English word sugar comes from the Arabic imitation of the Sanskrit sharkara, meaning gravel or small chunks of material; candy from the Arabic version of the Sanskrit for sugar itself, khandakah.
On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004
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The sap is collected either from the flowering stalks at the top of the tree, or from taps in the trunk, and then is boiled down either to a syrup called palm honey, or to a crystallized mass, which in India is known as gur (Hindi) or jaggery (English, via Portuguese from the Sanskrit sharkara).
On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004
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The English word sugar comes from the Arabic imitation of the Sanskrit sharkara, meaning gravel or small chunks of material; candy from the Arabic version of the Sanskrit for sugar itself, khandakah.
On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004
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The sap is collected either from the flowering stalks at the top of the tree, or from taps in the trunk, and then is boiled down either to a syrup called palm honey, or to a crystallized mass, which in India is known as gur (Hindi) or jaggery (English, via Portuguese from the Sanskrit sharkara).
On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004
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[* The Indian name for the sugar-cane is sharkara.
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* (* The Indian name for the sugar-cane is sharkara.
Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2 Alexander von Humboldt 1814
chained_bear commented on the word sharkara
"Sugar cane was now an ingredient in ceremonies involving fire. Maybe after many, many offerings a priest noticed that if the juice of the cane was boiled the right way, it crystallized into sweet, dark brown clumps. Perhaps that transformation itself seemed magical--a heated liquid turning into something that looked like dark grains of sand. In the Atharva Veda, sugar cane is called ikshu, which means 'something that people want, or desire, because of its sweetness.' But once people learned how to make sugar crystals, they began to use the name sharkara, which also meant 'gravel.'"
--Marc Aronson and Marina Budhos, Sugar Changed the World (Boston and New York: Clarion Books, 2010), 12
January 10, 2018