nougat

English

WOTD – 30 August 2010    

Etymology

From French nougat, from Occitan nougat, variant of Old Provençal nogat, from noga (“nut”), from Latin nux (“nut”). Compare Spanish nuégado.

Pronunciation

• (Australia) IPA: /ˈnu:ɡɑ/
• (UK) IPA: /ˈnʌɡɪt/
• (US) enPR: no͞oʹgu̇t IPA: /ˈnuː.ɡət/

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Noun

nougat (countable and uncountable; plural nougats)

1. A confection of honey or sugar and roasted nuts, often with other ingredients.

Translations

a confection of honey and roasted nuts

• Arabic: نوغة (ar) (nūġa) f
• Armenian: նուգա (hy) (nuga)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 牛軋糖 (cmn), 牛轧糖 (cmn) (niúzhátáng, niúgátáng)

• Dutch: noga (nl)
• Finnish: nougat (fi)
• French: nougat (fr) m (nougatine (fr) f in the case of brown nougat)
• German: Nougat (de) m and n
• Greek: μαντολάτο (el) (mantoláto) n
• Hebrew: נוגט (he) (núgat) f

• Hungarian: nugát (hu)
• Japanese: ヌガー (ja) (nugā)
• Korean: 누가 (ko) (nuga)
• Latin: nucatum
• Malay: nugat (ms)
• Norwegian: nougat (no) m
• Russian: нуга (ru) (nugá) f
• Spanish: turrón francés (es) m
• Swedish: nougat (sv)
• Vietnamese: kẹo nu-ga

See also

• turrón

External links

• Nougat on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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Finnish

Alternative forms

• nugaa

Pronunciation

• IPA: [ˈnuˌɡɑː]

Noun

nougat

1. nougat

Declension

Declension of nougat (type parfait) singular plural nominative nougat nougat't genitive nougat'n nougat'iden partitive nougat'ta nougat'ita accusative nougat nougat'n nougat't inessive nougat'ssa nougat'issa elative nougat'sta nougat'ista illative nougat'han nougat'ihin adessive nougat'lla nougat'illa ablative nougat'lta nougat'ilta allative nougat'lle nougat'ille essive nougat'na nougat'ina translative nougat'ksi nougat'iksi instructive – nougat'in abessive nougat'tta nougat'itta comitative – nougat'ineen

Anagrams

• guanot

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA: /nuɡɑ/

Noun

nougat m (plural nougats)

1. nougat