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jaggery.

A traditional dark-brown unrefined sugar made from palm tree sap which is used throughout South and Southeast Asia; (by extension) other types of unrefined sugar.

7 characters3 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

noun/ˈdʒæɡəɹi/Received-Pronunciation/ˈdʒæɡɹi/Received-Pronunciation/ˈd͡ʒæɡəɹi/General-American
  1. A traditional dark-brown unrefined sugar made from palm tree sap which is used throughout South and Southeast Asia; (by extension) other types of unrefined sugar.

    countable · uncountable
  2. A small-scale production plant that processes sugar cane to make sugar.

    broadly · countable · uncountable
Where this word comes from

PIE word *ḱorkeh₂ Borrowed from Indo-Portuguese jágara, jagra, from Malayalam ചക്കര (cakkara, “jaggery”) or Tamil சக்கரை (cakkarai), from Sanskrit शर्करा (śarkarā, “candied or ground sugar; (chiefly in the plural) grit, gravel, shingle; gravelly soil; pebble”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱorkeh₂ (“boulder; gravel”). Doublet of sugar.

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