English [ edit ] Alternative forms [ edit ] Etymology [ edit ] From dough nut [1] nut in the earlier sense of "small rounded cake or cookie",[2] toroidal shape becoming common in the twentieth century. First attested in Knickerbocker’s History of New York , by Washington Irving , 1809.
Pronunciation [ edit ] doughnut (plural doughnuts
A deep-fried piece of dough or batter, commonly of a toroidal (a ring doughnut ) shape, often mixed with various sweeteners and flavourings ; or flattened sphere (a filled doughnut) shape filled with jam , custard or cream .
Anything in the shape of a torus .
( Canada , US ) A peel-out or skid mark in the shape of a circle; a 360-degree skid.A spare car tyre , usually stored in the boot , that is smaller than a full-sized tyre and is only intended for temporary use. Synonyms [ edit ] ( anything in the shape of a torus ) : ring torus Derived terms [ edit ] Translations [ edit ]
deep-fried piece of dough or batter
Albanian: donut m
Arabic: دُونَات m ( dūnāt ) , شِفَنْج m ( šifanj ) ( Moroccan doughnut )
Armenian: փքաբլիթ (hy) ( pʿkʿablitʿ ) , պոնչիկ (hy) ( pončʿik )
Azerbaijani: pişi m əyirdək
Belarusian: по́нчык m ( pónčyk )
Bengali: ডোনাট ( ḑonaţ )
Bulgarian: поничка (bg) f ( ponička ) , донът (bg) m ( donǎt )
Burmese: ဒိုးနပ် ( dui:nap )
Catalan: dònat m
Chinese:
Cantonese: 冬甩 ( dung1 lat1 ) , 多甩 ( do1 lat1 ) , 沙翁 ( saa1 jung1 ) ( Chinese doughnut )
Mandarin: 甜甜圈 ( tiántiánquān ) , 沙翁 ( shāwēng ) ( Chinese doughnut ) , 多拿滋 ( duōnázī )
Czech: kobliha (cs) f
Danish: donut c ( rare ) munkering berliner (da) c
Dutch: donut (nl) , berlinerbol
Esperanto: benjeto
Estonian: sõõrik m
Finnish: munkki (fi)
French: beignet (fr) m donut (fr) m
Georgian: ფუნჩულა ( punčula ) , პონჩიკი ( ṗončiḳi )
German: Krapfen (de) f ( ellipsoidal ) , Donut (de) m Berliner (de) m Pfannkuchen (de) m
Greek: λουκουμάς (el) m ( loukoumás )
Haitian Creole: bèy
Hebrew: סֻפְגָּנִיָּה (he) ( sufganiya )
Hindi: डोनट ( ḍonaṭ )
Hungarian: fánk (hu)
Icelandic: kleinuhringur (is) m
Indonesian: donat (id)
Inupiak: uqsrukuaqtaq
Irish: taoschnó m
Italian: bombolone (it) m ciambella (it) f
Japanese: ドーナツ (ja) ( dōnatsu ) , ドーナッツ (ja) ( dōnattsu )
Kazakh: пончик ( ponçïk )
Korean: 도넛 (ko) ( doneot ) , 가락지빵 (ko) ( garakjippang ) ( ring-shaped donut; used in North Korea ) , 도너츠 ( doneocheu )
Latvian: virtulis m
Lithuanian: spurga f
Macedonian: кро́фна f ( krófna )
Malay: donat
Manx: cro teayst m fainey teayst f
Maori: tōnati
Navajo: bááh łikaní bigháhoodzání
Norman: miclotte f godenitchette f
Norwegian:
Bokmål: smultring m berlinerbolle m
Nynorsk: smultring m
Persian: دونات ( donât )
Polish: pączek (pl) m ( filled donut ) , oponka (pl) f ( ring-shaped donut )
Portuguese: rosca (pt) f rosquinha (pt) f ( ring-shaped donut ) , sonho (pt) m ( filled donut ) . Both used in Brazil , donut (pt) m
Romanian: gogoașă (ro) f
Russian: по́нчик (ru) m ( pónčik ) , пы́шка (ru) f ( pýška ) , пампу́шка (ru) f ( pampúška ) , пампу́ха (ru) f ( pampúxa ) ( regional )
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: крафна f
Roman: krafna (sh) f
Silesian: krepel m
Slovak: pampúch m placka f
Slovene: krof (sl) m
Spanish: dona (es) f rosquilla f anillo (es) m dónut m
Swahili: andazi (sw)
Swedish: munk (sv) c
Tagalog: donat
Thai: โดนัท (th) ( dohnát )
Turkish: donut
Ukrainian: по́нчик m ( pónčyk ) , пампу́шка f ( pampúška )
Urdu: ڈونٹ ( ḍonaṭ )
Uzbek: ponchik
Vietnamese: bánh rán (vi)
Welsh: toesen m
Yiddish: פּאָנטשקע f ( pontshke )
anything in the shape of a torus
peel-out or skid-mark in the shape of a doughnut
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