candy

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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)

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

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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.
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