doughnut

See also: dough-nut

English

Alternative forms

• donut (North America)

Etymology

From dough +‎ nut, 1809 because originally small, nut-sized balls of fried dough, or, more likely, from nut in the earlier sense of "small rounded cake or cookie", 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)

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• 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) shape, 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), 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 (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), 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 (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