نبذة عن مصطلح "كـــــنداكــــا" التوراتي، وتحية لاعرق نساء الارض..

Quote: Candy is a relatively new word in the way it's used. Historically, Sugar Candy was the popular term. It comes from the 18th century Old French, sucre candi. This word itself came from the Mediterranean. Approximately in 1000AD, Arabs had conquered a large part of the southern Mediterranean region, and established their first sugar refinery (yes) on the Greek island of Crete. Qandi, in Arabic is 'crystallized sugar'. Italy also borrowed succhero candi from the Arabs. The Arabic word descended from the Persian Qand, which meant 'hardened pieces of cane sugar'. The Persian word was derived from the Sanskrit sarkara khanda, which simply translates to 'lump of sugar'. The word actually descended from Sanskrit directly, as opposed to the PIE language from where many Indo-European languages, including Sanskrit, branched off.