Jaggery

//ˈdʒæɡəɹi// noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 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

    "The next Tree is the Kettule. […] It yieldeth a ſort of Liquor, which they call Tellegie: it is rarely ſweet and pleaſing to the Pallate, and as wholſom to the Body, but no ſtronger than water. […] An ordinary Tree will yield ſome three, ſome four Gallons in a day, ſome more and ſome leſs. The which Liquor they boyl and make a kind of brown Sugar, called Jaggory; […]"

  2. 2
    unrefined brown sugar made from palm sap wordnet
  3. 3
    A small-scale production plant that processes sugar cane to make sugar. broadly, countable, uncountable

Synonyms

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jaggaryjagghery

Example

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"Puran Polis are made using jaggery."

Etymology

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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sugar cane

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