socker

English

Pronunciation

  • (file)

Noun

socker (uncountable)

  1. Dated spelling of soccer.

Anagrams

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Swedish soker, from Middle Low German sucker, from Italian zucchero, from Arabic سُكَّر (sukkar), from Persian شکر (šakar).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈsɔkɛr/, [ˈsɔkːər]
  • (file)
  • Hyphenation: sock‧er
  • Rhymes: -¹ɔkɛr

Noun

socker n

  1. (uncountable) sugar; sucrose in the form of small crystals
  2. (countable, biochemistry) sugar; any of various small carbohydrates that are used by organisms to store energy.
    • 2010, Jennie Molin, Utvärdering av potentialen för produktion av algbiobränsle vid en etanolanläggning (thesis), Linköping University:
      Sockret i sirapen är främst pentoser (till exempel xylos) eftersom det är ett socker som jästsvamparna i etanolproduktionen inte förbrukar (Erlandsson, personlig kommunikation).
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Declension

Declension of socker 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative socker sockret socker sockren
Genitive sockers sockrets sockers sockrens

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Finnish: sokeri

References

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