cognac

See also: Cognac

English

Etymology

French cognac, from Cognac, a city in France, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Medieval Latin Comniacum, from the name Cominius + Gallo-Roman suffix -acum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɒn.jæk/, /ˈkoʊn.jæk/
• 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.

Translations

type of brandy

• Arabic: كُونْيَاك m (kunyāk), كُونْيَاك m (kunyak)
• 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, 科涅克白兰地 (kēnièkè báilándì), 柯納克白蘭地／柯纳克白兰地, 柯纳克白兰地 (kēnàkè báilándì)

• Czech: koňak (cs) m
• Danish: cognac
• Dutch: cognac (nl) m
• Esperanto: konjako
• Estonian: konjak
• Finnish: konjakki (fi)
• French: cognac (fr) m
• Georgian: კონიაკი (ḳoniaḳi)
• German: Cognac (de) m, Kognak (de) m
• Greek: κονιάκ (el) n (koniák)
• Hebrew: קוניק m (konyak)
• Hungarian: konyak (hu)
• Hunsrik: Konjack m
• Icelandic: koníak (is) n
• Italian: cognac
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• Japanese: コニャック (konyakku), ブランデー (burandē)
• 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

• 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

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Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French cognac.

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: cog‧nac

Noun

cognac m (plural cognacs, diminutive cognacje n)

1. (a glass of) cognac

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French

Etymology

The city's name is from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Medieval Latin Comniacum, from the name Cominius + Gallo-Roman suffix -acum. The gens Cominius is an (deprecated template usage) [etyl]  family name; see Cominia for further details.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔ.ɲak/

• Audio:

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Noun

cognac m (plural cognacs)

1. cognac

Descendants

• Russian: конья́к m (konʹják)

Further reading

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