doughnut

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[edit] English

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[edit] Alternative forms

donut (North America)

[edit] Etymology

Dough + nut, first attested in in Washington Irving's Knickerbocker’s History of New York, 1809.[1] The original doughnuts were small, nut-sized balls of fried dough (the toroidal shape was to become common in the twentieth century).

[edit] Pronunciation

Hyphenation: dough‧nut

[edit] Noun

filled doughnuts

doughnut (plural doughnuts)

A deep-fried piece of dough or batter, commonly of a toroidal (a ring doughnut) often mixed with various sweeteners and flavourings; or flattened sphere (a filled doughnut) shape filled with jam, custard or cream.
Anything in the shape of a torus.
(North America) A peel-out or skid-mark in the shape of circle; a 360-degree skid.
A spare car tyre, usually stored in the boot, that is smaller than a full sized tyre and is only intended for temporary use.

[edit] Synonyms

(anything in the shape of a torus): ring, torus

[edit] Translations

deep-fried piece of dough or batter

Albanian: donut (sq) m.
Arabic: دونات (ar) (dunaat) m.
Azeri: pişi (az) m., əyirdək (az)
Catalan: dònat (ca) m.
Chinese:

Mandarin: 油炸圈餅 (cmn), 油炸圈饼 (cmn) (yóuzhá quānbǐng), 炸面圈 (cmn) (zhámiànquān), 甜甜圈 (cmn) (tiántiánquān)
Czech: kobliha (cs) f.
Danish: donut (da), (rare) munkering (da)
Dutch: donut (nl)
Esperanto: benjeto
Estonian: sõõrik (et) m.
Finnish: donitsi (fi), munkkirinkilä (fi), munkki (fi)
French: beignet (fr) m., donut (fr) m.
German: Krapfen (de) f. (ellipsoidal), Donut (de) m.
Greek: λουκουμάς (el) (loukoumás) m.
Haitian Creole: bèy
Hebrew: סֻפְגָּנִיָּה (he) (sufganiya)
Hindi: डोनट (hi) (ḍōnaṭ)
Hungarian: fánk (hu)
Icelandic: kleinuhringur (is) m.
Indonesian: donat (id)

Irish: taoschnó (ga) m.
Italian: bombolone (it) m.
Japanese: ドーナツ (ja) (dōnatsu), ドーナッツ (ja) (dōnattsu)
Korean: 도넛 (ko) (doneot), 가락지빵 (ko) (garakjibbang) (ring-shaped donut; used in North Korea);
Malay: donut (ms)
Norwegian: smultring (no) m.
Polish: pączek (pl) m.
Portuguese: rosca (pt) f. (ring-shaped donut), sonho (pt) m. (filled donut). Both used in Brazil
Romanian: gogoașă f.
Russian: пончик (ru) (pónčik) m.
Serbo-Croatian: крафна (sh) f., krafna (sh) f.
Slovene: krof (sl) m.
Spanish: dona (es)
Swahili: andazi (sw)
Swedish: munk (sv) c.
Tagalog: donat (tl)
Turkish: çörek (tr)
Vietnamese: bánh rán (vi)
Welsh: toesen (cy) m.