English
Etymology
Allegedly coined by an English traveller who could not pronounce the Arabic name, 18th c.[1]
Noun
Turkish delight usually uncountable , plural Turkish delights
A soft, sticky confection made from starch and sugar with various flavourings .
Synonyms: locoum loukoumi
Translations
confection
Albanian: llokum (sq) m rahat llokum m
Arabic: رَاحَةُ ٱلْحُلْقُوم f ( rāḥatu l-ḥulqūm )
Armenian: լոխում (hy) ( loxum ) , ռահատ լոխում ( ṙahat loxum )
Azerbaijani: loxum lokum
Belarusian: раха́т-луку́м m ( raxát-lukúm ) , луку́м m ( lukúm )
Bulgarian: локу́м m ( lokúm )
Catalan: delícies turques f pl
Chinese:
Mandarin: 土耳其软糖 土耳其软糖 ( Tǔ'ěrqí ruǎntáng ) , 土耳其快樂糖 ／ 土耳其快乐糖 土耳其快乐糖 ( Tǔ'ěrqí kuàilètáng )
Czech: turecký med m rahat m lokum m turecké potěšení n
Danish: turkish delight c tyrkisk delight c
Dutch: Turks fruit n
Esperanto: lukumo
Finnish: lokum (fi)
French: loukoum (fr) m rahat-loukoum (fr) m
Georgian: რაჰათლუკუმი ( rahatluḳumi )
German: Lokum n
Greek: λουκούμι (el) n ( loukoúmi )
Hebrew: רַחַת לוֹקוּם (he) ( rakhat lokum )
Hungarian: szultánkenyér (hu) , török csemege lokum
Italian: lokum m
Japanese: ロクム ( rokumu ) , ターキッシュ・ディライト ( tākisshu-diraito )
(deprecated template usage ) {{trans-mid }}Korean: 로쿰 ( rokum ) , 터키시 딜라이트 ( teokisi dillaiteu )
Kurdish: Lua error in Module:parameters at line 290 : Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "ku" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E . Lua error in Module:parameters at line 290 : Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "ku" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E .
Kyrgyz: рахат-лукум ( rahat-lukum )
Latin: lucumium n
Lithuanian: lukumas m
Macedonian: локум m ( lokum )
Malay: halwa maskat
Persian: راحتالحلقوم ( râhat-ol-holqum ) , باسلق (fa) ( bâsloq )
Polish: rachatłukum (pl) m
Portuguese: manjar turco m delícia turca f
Romanian: rahat (ro) n rahat turcesc n
Russian: рахат-луку́м (ru) m ( raxat-lukúm ) , луку́м (ru) m ( lukúm )
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: ра́тлук m ра̀хат-ло̀кум m
Roman: rátluk (sh) m ràhat-lòkum (sh) m
Slovene: ratluk m
Spanish: lokum m delicias turcas f pl
Swedish: marmeladkonfekt c
Turkish: lokum (tr) , rahat-lokum
Ukrainian: раха́т-луку́м m ( raxát-lukúm ) , луку́м m ( lukúm )
Uzbek: rohatul-luqum (uz)
Vietnamese: như rahat-loukoum
Further reading
References
^ Victoria Combe (2003 May 3) “Sweet little history”, in The Telegraph [1] September 11, 2017 
Turkish delight on Wikipedia.Wikipedia 