noun
jaggery
JA-guh-ree
noun
1
An unrefined, dark brown sugar made by boiling down palm or sugarcane sap, common in South and Southeast Asian cooking.
"The chai was sweetened with jaggery instead of white sugar."
How to Use Jaggery
Learner’s notesIn plain EnglishA traditional unrefined sugar with a deep caramel flavor, widely used across South Asian cooking.
Common pairings
block of jaggery
sweetened with jaggery
Word Forms
jaggeries plural
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Etymology
Traces back through Indo-Portuguese jagra to Sanskrit śarkarā ("candied sugar"), the same root that ultimately gave English the word sugar.