Some hip-hop African Americans these days use the word SUGA for sugar. Don't think this is a modified form of sugar. The word is Yoruba and probably older than the English word sugar！
In Samoan, when you address a young female, you say SUGA. Typically an aunt calling her niece, etc. Once a huge Samoan young woman looked at me and said, "Suga!" to which I responded "What?" She looked puzzled. She was addressing past me to her niece, about 6 years old, playing on the roadside.
In Portuguese, well, I don't like it. SUGA is a form of order: "Suck." Isn't it disgusting? I have to turn my semantic ear deaf.
