cognac

See also: Cognac

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French cognac, from Cognac, a city in France, from Medieval Latin Comniacum, from the name Cominius + Gallo-Roman suffix -acum, from Proto-Celtic *-ākom.

Cognac

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɒn.jæk/, /ˈkəʊn.jæk/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Homophone: konjac

Noun

cognac (countable and uncountable, plural cognacs)

2. A brandy distilled from white wine in the region around Cognac in France.

   Major manufacturers add a small proportion of caramel to color their cognacs.

   • 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 156:

     Cognac, with the addition of a little paprika and the yolk of an egg, is considered an effective aphrodisiac aid.

   • 2012, Pete Townshend, Who I Am, HarperCollins, →ISBN, page 265:

     We’d have a script meeting for the next day’s shooting that lasted until two in the morning, and he’d be up again at six for a breakfast meeting. I survived on cognac. I have no idea how he did it.

   • 2016 December 16, Peter Shadbolt, “What does a $22,000 cognac actually taste like?”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     David Mason, Beverage and Bar Manager at St. Regis, describes the complex aromas and layered palate of the cognac thus: “It’s kind of autumn flavors. Really nutty, almondy – kind of fig, plum, dried fruits. But it finishes off really smoothly but with a little bit of tobacco leaf.”

Hypernyms

• brandy, see also liquor

Derived terms

• cognac glass

Translations

type of brandy

• Arabic: كُونْيَاك m (konyāk)
• Armenian: կոնյակ (hy) (konyak)
• Belarusian: канья́к m (kanʹják)
• Bulgarian: коня́к m (konják)
• Catalan: conyac m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 干邑 (zh) (gānyì), 干邑白蘭地 / 干邑白兰地 (gānyì báilándì)

• Czech: koňak (cs) m
• Danish: cognac c
• Dutch: cognac (nl) m
• Esperanto: konjako
• Estonian: konjak
• Finnish: konjakki (fi)
• French: cognac (fr) m
• Georgian: კონიაკი (ḳoniaḳi)
• German: Kognak (de) m
• Greek: κονιάκ (el) n (koniák)
• Hebrew: קוניק m (konyak)
• Hungarian: konyak (hu)
• Hunsrik: Konjack m
• Icelandic: koníak (is) n
• Indonesian: konyak (id)
• Italian: cognac
• Japanese: コニャック (ja) (konyakku), ブランデー (ja) (burandē)
• Khmer: គោញាក់ (kooñĕək)
• Korean: 코냑 (konyak), 브랜디 (ko) (beuraendi)
• Lithuanian: konjakas
• Luxembourgish: Cognac m
• Macedonian: ко́њак (mk) m (kónjak)
• Malay: cognac
• Marathi: कॉनयॅक f (kŏnyĕk)
• Norman: couongnac m, martel m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: konjakk (no) m

  Nynorsk: konjakk m

• Persian: کنیاک (fa)
• Polish: koniak (pl) m
• Portuguese: conhaque (pt) m
• Romanian: coniac (ro) m
• Russian: конья́к (ru) m (konʹják)
• Spanish: coñac (es) m
• Swedish: konjak (sv) c
• Tagalog: konyak, kunyak
• Tajik: коняк (tg) (konyak)
• Turkish: konyak (tr)

  Ottoman Turkish: قونیاق (konyak)

• Ukrainian: конья́к m (konʹják)
• Uzbek: konyak (uz)
• Vietnamese: rượu cô-nhắc
• Volapük: konyak (vo)

See also

• Armagnac

Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from French cognac.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈkʰʌnˀjɑɡ̊]

Noun

cognac c (singular definite cognacen, plural indefinite cognacer)

1. brandy, cognac

Declension

Declension of cognac

common gender	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	cognac	cognacen	cognacer	cognacerne
genitive	cognacs	cognacens	cognacers	cognacernes

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French cognac.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔnˈjɑk/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: cog‧nac
• Rhymes: -ɑk

Noun

cognac m (plural cognacs, diminutive cognacje n)

1. (a glass of) cognac

Derived terms

• cognacglas

Descendants

• → Indonesian: konyak

French

Etymology

From Cognac.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔ.ɲak/

• Audio:

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• Audio (France (Lyon)):

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Noun

cognac m (plural cognacs)

1. cognac

Descendants

• → Czech: koňak m
• → German: Kognak, Cognac (now more common)
• → Spanish: coñac m
• → Polish: koniak m
• → Russian: конья́к m (konʹják)

Further reading

• “cognac”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012