cognac

See also: Cognac

English

Etymology

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

a bottle of cognac

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɒn.jæk/, /ˈkəʊn.jæk/

• Audio (Southern England)

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• Homophone: konjac

Noun

cognac (countable and uncountable, plural cognacs)

1. 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.

   • 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.

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: 干邑白蘭地／干邑白兰地 (gānyì báilándì), 科涅克白蘭地／科涅克白兰地 (kēnièkè báilándì), 柯納克白蘭地／柯纳克白兰地 (kēnàkè 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 (konyakku), ブランデー (burandē)
• Khmer: គោញាក់ (kooñĕək)
• Korean: 코냑 (konyak), 브랜디 (ko) (beuraendi)
• Lithuanian: konjakas
• Luxembourgish: Cognac m
• Macedonian: ко́њак m (kónjak)
• Malay: cognac
• Norman: couongnac m, martel m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: konjakk (no) m

  Nynorsk: konjakk m

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

  (file)

• 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

  (file)

Noun

cognac m (plural cognacs)

1. cognac

Descendants

• → German: Kognak, Cognac
• Polish: koniak m
• Russian: конья́к m (konʹják)

Further reading

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