candy

See also Candy

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: kăn'di, IPA: /ˈkændi/, X-SAMPA: /"k{ndi/

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• Rhymes: -ændi

Etymology 1

From Old French sucre candi, from Arabic قندي (qandi, “candied”), from Persian قند (qand, “hard candy made by boiling cane sugar”)

perhaps originally from Proto-Dravidian *kaṇṭu; compare Tamil கண்டு (kantu, “hard candy”).

perhaps originally from Sanskrit खण्ड (khaṇḍa, “candied sugar”), from root खण्ड् (khaṇḍ, “to divide, break into pieces”)

Noun

candy (countable and uncountable; plural candies)

1. (uncountable, chiefly US) Edible, sweet-tasting confectionery containing sugar, or sometimes artificial sweeteners, and often flavored with fruit, chocolate, nuts, herbs and spices, or artificial flavors.
   • 1991, Brayfield, Celia, The Prince:

     They came down to buy sugar, flour, saltfish or candy from Nana, to collect letters and exchange gossip.

2. (countable, chiefly US) A piece of candy.
   • 1991, Ann Granger, A Season for Murder:

Synonyms

• (confection): confectionery, sweets (British), lollies (Australia), sugar candy (US)
• (piece of candy): sweet (British), lolly (Australia)

Derived terms

Terms derived from candy

arm candy bee candy brain candy candy ass candy cane

candy floss candy man candy store candy stripe candy striper

cotton candy ear candy eye candy hard candy like taking candy from a baby

nose candy rock candy sugar candy

Translations

confection — see confectionery

piece of candy

• Afrikaans: lekkergoed (af)
• Arabic: حلوى (ar) (ḥalwā) f, حلوى سكرية (ar) (ḥalwā sukkaríyya) f
• Belarusian: цукерка (be) (cukérka) f
• Bulgarian: бонбон (bg) (bonbón) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 糖果 (cmn) (tángguǒ), 糖 (cmn) (táng)

• Crimean Tatar: qanfet (crh)
• Czech: sladkost (cs) f
• Danish: slik (da)
• Dutch: snoep (nl)
• Esperanto: dolĉaĵo (eo), sukeraĵo (eo)
• Estonian: komm (et), kompvek (et)
• Finnish: karkki (fi)
• French: bonbon (fr) m, sucrerie (fr) f
• Georgian: კამფეტი (ka) (kamp’eti), ქენდი (ka) (k'endi)
• German: Bonbon (de) m and n, Konfekt (de) n
• Greek: ζαχαρωτό (el) (zacharotó) n, καραμέλα (el) (karaméla) f, (obsolete) κανδιοσάκχαρον (el) (kandiosakcharon) n
• Hebrew: סוכריה (he) (sukari'a) f
• Ido: bonbono (io)
• Italian: caramella (it) f
• Japanese: キャンデー (ja) (kyandē), キャンディ (ja) (kyandi), お菓子 (ja) (おかし, okashi)
• Korean: 사탕 (ko) (satang) (沙糖 (ko))
• Kurdish:

  Sorani: نوقڵ (ckb)

• Lao: ເຂົ້າຫນົມອົມ (lo) (khaonomom)
• Latvian: saldums (lv)
• Lithuanian: saldainiai (lt) f
• Luxembourgish: Kamell (lb) f
• Maricopa: ʼayuu mnyee
• Navajo: ałkʼésdisí
• Norwegian: godteri (no) n pl
• O'odham: lulsi
• Polish: cukierek (pl) m
• Portuguese: rebuçado (pt) m (Portugal), bombom (pt) m (Portugal), bala (pt) f (Brazil), confeito (pt)
• Russian: конфета (ru) (konféta) f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: бомбона (sh) f

  Roman: bombona (sh) f

• Slovak: cukrík (sk) m
• Sotho: pompong (st)
• Spanish: caramelo (es) m, dulce (es) m, confite (es) m
• Swedish: godis (sv) n (uncountable), karamell (sv) c
• Tagalog: kendi (tl)
• Ukrainian: цукерка (uk) (cukérka) f
• Uzbek: shirinlik (uz), asal (uz), qand (uz)
• Vietnamese: kẹo (vi)
• Zazaki: qende f

Verb

candy (third-person singular simple present candies, present participle candying, simple past and past participle candied)

1. (cooking) To cook in, or coat with, sugar syrup.
2. (intransitive) To have sugar crystals form in or on.

   Fruits preserved in sugar candy after a time.

3. (intransitive) To be formed into candy; to solidify in a candylike form or mass.

Translations

to cook, or coat with sugar or syrup

• Bulgarian: захаросвам (bg) (zaharosvam)
• Finnish: kandeerata (fi)
• French: candir (fr), confire (fr)
• German: kandieren (de)

• Greek: καραμελώνω (el) (karamelóno)
• Hungarian: kandíroz (hu)
• Swedish: kandera (sv)

Etymology 2

Wikipedia

From Marathi खंडी (khaṇḍī), from Sanskrit खण्डन (khaṇḍana), from root खण्ड् (khaṇḍ, “to divide, break into pieces”).

Alternative forms

• candee

Noun

candy (plural candies)

1. (obsolete) a unit of mass used in southern India, equal to twenty maunds, roughly equal to 500 pounds avoirdupois but varying locally.

Synonyms

• maunee

Translations

unit of mass

• Marathi: खंडी (mr) (khaṇḍī) f
• Portuguese: candil (pt) m
• Sanskrit: खण्डन (sa) (khaṇḍana)

• Tamil: கண்டி (ta) (kṇṭi), பாரம் (ta) (pāram)
• Telugu: ఖండి (te) (kaṇḍi), పుట్టి (te) (puṭṭi)

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