Food and Drink
قندشکن
/ qand-shekan /
noun · sugar tongs; sugar cube cracker (used with Persian tea)
Meaning
معنی۱
قندشکن (qand-shekan) means sugar tongs or a sugar-cube cracker. It is a Persian compound: قند (sugar, from Sanskrit khaṇḍa via an older Persian form, with the Arabic form later re-borrowed into Persian) plus شکن (breaker, from the native Persian verb شکستن), combining roots of different origins.
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