doughnut

English

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Alternative forms

• donut (North America)

Etymology

dough +‎ nut, 1809. Originally small, nut-sized balls of fried dough, with the toroidal shape becoming common in the twentieth century. First attested in Knickerbocker’s History of New York, by Washington Irving, 1809.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈdəʊnʌt/
• Hyphenation: dough‧nut

Noun

filled doughnuts

doughnut (plural doughnuts)

1. 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.
2. Anything in the shape of a torus.
3. (North America) A peel-out or skid mark in the shape of a circle; a 360-degree skid.
4. A spare car tyre, usually stored in the boot, that is smaller than a full sized tyre and is only intended for temporary use.

Synonyms

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

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) c, (rare) munkering (da), berliner (da) c (with filling)
• Dutch: donut (nl), berlinerbol (nl) (with filling)
• Esperanto: benjeto (eo)
• Estonian: sõõrik (et) m
• Finnish: 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)
• Inupiak: uqsrukuaqtaq (ik)
• Irish: taoschnó (ga) m

• Italian: bombolone (it) m
• Japanese: ドーナツ (ja) (dōnatsu), ドーナッツ (ja) (dōnattsu)
• Jèrriais: miclotte f, godenitchette f
• Korean: 도넛 (ko) (doneot), 가락지빵 (ko) (garakjibbang) (ring-shaped donut; used in North Korea)
• Malay: donat (ms)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: smultring (no) m, berlinerbolle (no) m (with filling)

  Nynorsk: smultring (nn) m

• Polish: pączek (pl) m (filled donut), oponka (pl) f (ring-shaped donut)
• Portuguese: rosca (pt) f, rosquinha (pt) f (ring-shaped donut), sonho (pt) m (filled donut). Both used in Brazil, donut (pt) m
• Romanian: gogoașă (ro) f
• Russian: пончик (ru) (pónčik) m
• Serbo-Croatian: крафна (sh) f, krafna (sh) f
• Slovene: krof (sl) m
• Spanish: dona (es), rosquilla (es) f, anillo (es) m
• Swahili: andazi (sw)
• Swedish: munk (sv) c
• Tagalog: donat (tl)
• Turkish: donut (tr)
• Vietnamese: bánh rán (vi)
• Welsh: toesen (cy) m

anything in the shape of a torus

• Finnish: torus (fi), rengas (fi)

• Swahili: mandazi (sw)

peel-out or skid-mark in the shape of a doughnut

• Swahili: mandazi (sw)

fat person

• Finnish: läski (fi)

• Swahili: mandazi (sw)

tire

• Finnish: vararengas (fi)
• German: Reifen (de) m

• Swahili: mandazi (sw)
• Turkish: lastik (tr)

See also

• bagel
• koulouri
• torus
• toroid