doughnut

See also: dough-nut

English

Alternative forms

• donut (North America)

Etymology

dough +‎ nut, 1809. Originally small, nut-sized balls of fried dough, with the toroidal shape becoming common in the twentieth century. First attested in Knickerbocker’s History of New York, by Washington Irving, 1809.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈdəʊˌnʌt/
• (US, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈdoʊnət/, /ˈdoʊˌnʌt/

• Audio (US)

  (file)

• Hyphenation: dough‧nut

Noun

filled doughnuts

doughnut (plural doughnuts)

1. A deep-fried piece of dough or batter, commonly of a toroidal (a ring doughnut) often mixed with various sweeteners and flavourings; or flattened sphere (a filled doughnut) shape filled with jam, custard or cream.
2. Anything in the shape of a torus.
3. (Canada, US) A peel-out or skid mark in the shape of a circle; a 360-degree skid.
4. 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

• (anything in the shape of a torus): ring, torus

Derived terms

• bet a dollar to a doughnut

Translations

deep-fried piece of dough or batter

• Albanian: donut m
• Arabic: دُونَات‎ m (dūnāt)
• Armenian: փքաբլիթ (hy) (pʿkʿablitʿ)
• Azeri: pişi m, əyirdək
• Belarusian: по́нчык m (pónčyk)
• Bengali: ডোনাট (ḑonaţ)
• Bulgarian: поничка (bg) f (ponička)
• 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 (with filling)
• Dutch: donut (nl), berlinerbol (with filling)
• 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)

• Latvian: virtulis m
• Lithuanian: spurga f
• Macedonian: кро́фна f (krófna)
• Malay: donat
• Manx: cro teayst m, fainey teayst f
• Navajo: bááh łikaní bigháhoodzání
• Norman: miclotte f, godenitchette f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: smultring m, berlinerbolle m (with filling)

  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)
• 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
• Swahili: andazi (sw)
• Swedish: munk (sv) c
• Tagalog: donat
• Thai: โดนัท (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

• Finnish: torus (fi), rengas (fi)
• Russian: тор (ru) m (tor), кольцо (ru) m (kolʹco)

• Swahili: mandazi (sw)

peel-out or skid-mark in the shape of a doughnut

• Swahili: mandazi (sw)

fat person

• Finnish: läski (fi)
• Russian: по́нчик (ru) m (pónčik)

• Swahili: mandazi (sw)

tire

• Finnish: vararengas (fi)
• German: Reifen (de) m
• Russian: камера (ru) f (kamera), покрышка (ru) f (pokryška)

• Swahili: mandazi (sw)
• Turkish: lastik (tr)

See also

• bagel
• koulouri
• torus
• toroid