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sucrose

noun · 2 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

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  • General-American: /ˈsukɹoʊs/
  • Received-Pronunciation: /ˈsuːkɹəʊz/
  • Received-Pronunciation: /ˈsjuːkɹəʊz/
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  • CMU ARPABET: S UW1 K R OW0 S Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

noun

Meaning 1

A disaccharide with formula C12H22O11, consisting of two simple sugars, glucose and fructose; normal culinary sugar.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

Topics: biochemistry, biology, chemistry, microbiology, natural-sciences, physical-sciences

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

a complex carbohydrate found in many plants and used as a sweetening agent

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: saccharose

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: disaccharide, plant product

Narrower terms: galactose, brain sugar

History

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱorkeh2 Proto-Indo-Iranian *ćárkaraH Proto-Indo-Aryan *śárkaraH Sanskrit शर्क॑रा (śárkarā) Gandhari 𐨭𐨐𐨪 (śakara)bor. Middle Persian 𐭱𐭪𐭥 (šakar)bor. Arabic سُكَّر (sukkar)bor. Old Italian zuccherobor. Old French çucrebor. Middle French sucre French sucre Ancient Greek γλεῦκος (gleûkos)der. French glucose English glucosebf. English -ose English sucrose From French sucre (“sugar”) + English -ose. By surface analysis, sucr- (“sugar”) + -ose.

Across languages

Translations

92 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Albanian: sakaroza — a disaccharide
  • Arabic: سكروز (sakruz) — a disaccharide
  • Armenian: սախարոզ (saxaroz) — a disaccharide
  • Asturian: sacarosa — a disaccharide
  • Basque: sakarosa — a disaccharide
  • Belarusian: цукроза (cukróza) — a disaccharide
  • Bengali: সুক্রোজ (śukrōj) — a disaccharide
  • Bengali: সুকরোজ (śukrōj) — a disaccharide
  • Bulgarian: захароза (zaharoza) — a disaccharide
  • Bulgarian: сукроза (sukroza) — a disaccharide
  • Catalan: sacarosa — a disaccharide
  • Chinese Cantonese: 蔗糖 (ze3 tong4) — a disaccharide
  • Hakka Chinese: 蔗糖 (cha-thòng) — a disaccharide
  • Chinese: 蔗糖 (chià-thn̂g) — a disaccharide
  • Chinese Mandarin: 蔗糖 (zhètáng) — a disaccharide
  • Crimean Tatar: saharoza — a disaccharide
  • Czech: sacharóza — a disaccharide
  • Danish: sukrose — a disaccharide
  • Danish: saccharose — a disaccharide
  • Dutch: sacharose — a disaccharide
  • Esperanto: sakarozo — a disaccharide
  • Estonian: sahharoos — a disaccharide
  • Finnish: sakkaroosi — a disaccharide
  • French: saccharose — a disaccharide
  • French: saccarose — a disaccharide
  • North Frisian: saccharoos — a disaccharide
  • West-Frisian: sacharoaze — a disaccharide
  • Galician: sacarosa — a disaccharide
  • Georgian: საქაროზა (sakaroza) — a disaccharide
  • German: Saccharose — a disaccharide
  • Greek: σακχαρόζη (sakcharózi) — a disaccharide
  • Greek: καλαμοσάκχαρο (kalamosákcharo) — a disaccharide
  • Hindi: इक्षुधु (ikṣudhu) — a disaccharide
  • Hungarian: cukor — a disaccharide
  • Hungarian: szacharóz — a disaccharide
  • Icelandic: súkrósi — a disaccharide
  • Icelandic: sakkarósi — a disaccharide
  • Ido: sakarozo — a disaccharide
  • Indonesian: sukrosa — a disaccharide
  • Irish: siúcrós — a disaccharide
  • Italian: saccarosio — a disaccharide
  • Japanese: スクロース (sukurōsu) — a disaccharide
  • Japanese: 蔗糖 (shotō) — a disaccharide
  • Javanese: sukrosa — a disaccharide
  • Kannada: ಸುಕ್ರೋಸ್ (sukrōs) — a disaccharide
  • Kazakh: сахароза (saxaroza) — a disaccharide
  • Khmer: សក្ករជាតិ (sɑɑkkɑɑciəteʼ) — a disaccharide
  • Khmer: ស៊ុក្រូស (sukrouh) — a disaccharide
  • Korean: 수크로스 (sukeuroseu) — a disaccharide
  • Korean: 자당 (jadang) — a disaccharide
  • Northern Kurdish: sakaroz — a disaccharide
  • Kyrgyz: сахароза (saharoza) — a disaccharide
  • Latin: saccharosum — a disaccharide
  • Latvian: saharoze — a disaccharide
  • Lithuanian: sacharozė — a disaccharide
  • Luxembourgish: Saccharos — a disaccharide
  • Macedonian: сахароза (saharoza) — a disaccharide
  • Malay: sukrosa — a disaccharide
  • Malayalam: സുക്രോസ് (sukrōsŭ) — a disaccharide
  • Māori: hukatō — a disaccharide
  • Marathi: इक्षुधु (ikṣudhu) — a disaccharide
  • Mongolian: сахароз (saxaroz) — a disaccharide
  • Mongolian: нишингийн чихэр (nišingiin čixer) — a disaccharide
  • Nepali: इक्षुधु (ikṣudhu) — a disaccharide
  • Norwegian Bokmål: sukrose — a disaccharide
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: sukrose — a disaccharide
  • Occitan: sacaròsa — a disaccharide
  • Occitan: sucròsa — a disaccharide
  • Persian: ساکارز — a disaccharide
  • Polish: sacharoza — a disaccharide
  • Portuguese: sacarose — a disaccharide
  • Romanian: zaharoză — a disaccharide
  • Romanian: sucroză — a disaccharide
  • Russian: сахаро́за (saxaróza) — a disaccharide
  • Serbo-Croatian: сахаро́за — a disaccharide
  • Serbo-Croatian: saharóza — a disaccharide
  • Sinhalese: සුක්රෝස් (sukrōs) — a disaccharide
  • Slovak: sacharóza — a disaccharide
  • Slovene: saharoza — a disaccharide
  • Spanish: sacarosa — a disaccharide
  • Sundanese: sukrosa — a disaccharide
  • Swedish: sackaros — a disaccharide
  • Swedish: sukros — a disaccharide
  • Tamil: சுக்குரோசு (cukkurōcu) — a disaccharide
  • Telugu: సుక్రోజ్ (sukrōj) — a disaccharide
  • Thai: ซูโครส (soo-króht) — a disaccharide
  • Turkish: sakkaroz — a disaccharide
  • Ukrainian: цукро́за (cukróza) — a disaccharide
  • Ukrainian: сахаро́за (saxaróza) — a disaccharide
  • Uzbek: сахароза (saxaroza) — a disaccharide
  • Uzbek: saxaroza — a disaccharide
  • Welsh: swcros — a disaccharide