شكر

& H شكر shakar, shakkar, or शकर śakar, and शक्कर śakkar, vulg. sakkar[S. शकर्रा], s.f. Sugar; (met.) sweet words or speech:—shakarafshānī, s.f. The scattering of sugar; (met.) uttering of sweet words, sweet speech:—shakar-bhatāor shakar-pāra, s.m. A kind of sweetmeat (made of rice, butter, and sugar):—shakar-pāra, s.m. A lump of sugar:—shakar-and, adj. Smiling sweetly; speaking gently with a smile of love; gracious, attractive, charming, amiable:—shakar-urāor orā, s.m. One who is fond ofsweets; one who lives on dainties;—name of a small bird (so called from its fondness for sweets):—shakar-rez, adj. Scattering sugar; mellifluous; sweet or elegant (language):—shakar-farosh, s.m.f. A seller of sugar; (met.) a mistress, a sweetheart:—shakarqand, vulg. shakar-kand, s.m. lit.'Sweet bulb or root'; the sweet potato, Convolvulus batatasor Batatas edulis:—shakar-guftār, adj. Speaking agreeably, sweet-spoken; eloquent:—shakar-lab, adj. & s.f. Sugar-lipped;—a mistress:—shakar-maqāl, adj. Sweet-spoken, sweet-tongued.