I learned sugar as chinni while I was in India. What is the difference between chinni and shakkar?
Chinni vs shakkar
candi-h
February 15, 2011
mahesh.m--
March 4, 2011
shakkar is called as sugar in chennai
Neil-G1
March 19, 2011
I lived in and learned Hindi in Delhi. There the word used for sugar was chinni. I never heard shakkar.
Julien-C
February 21, 2013
Both are used,it depends on regions,area,influence...
I think one is hindu and the other is muslim (hindi/urdu origin).
What do you think Nikita?Sure you know it...
Chinku-T
March 15, 2013
i think that often in hindi the have two words that mean the same thing or one word that means a lot of things.mabe.
John-H8
September 8, 2013
चीनी - cīnī as a noun, it means sugar, as an adjective it means Chinese.
शक्कर - shakkar - Sugar.I think this word is an English loanword.
We can use either cīnī or shakkar for sugar.