marzipan

See also: Marzipan

English

Alternative forms

• marchpane (obsolete)

Etymology

Borrowed from German Marzipan, from Italian marzapane, Venetian marzapane. Believed to be, with influence from pane (“bread”), derived from Arabic مَرْطَبَان (marṭabān, “spice box”) which comes from the name of a Burmese port known for its spice exports, Martaban, now called in Burmese မုတ္ထမ (muthta.ma.).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌmɑːzɪˈpæn/, /ˈmɑːzɪpæn/
• IPA^(key): /ˈmɑɹzəpæn/, /ˈmɑɹtsəpɑn/, /ˈmɑɹtsəpæn/
• Rhymes: -æn

Noun

fruit-shaped marzipan at a market in Florence, Italy

marzipan (usually uncountable, plural marzipans)

1. A confection made from a paste of almonds, sugar and egg white as a binder.

Coordinate terms

• almond paste
• Christmas cake
• simnel cake

Derived terms

• marzipan layer
• persipan

Translations

confection of almond paste, sugar and egg white

• Albanian: marzipani m
• Arabic: مَرْصَبَان m (marṣabān)
• Armenian: մարցիպան (marcʻipan)
• Azerbaijani: marzipan, marsipan, martsipan
• Basque: mazapan
• Catalan: massapà m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 杏仁糖 (hang⁶ jan⁴ tong⁴)

  Mandarin: 杏仁蛋白糖 (xìngrén dànbái táng), 杏仁膏 (xìngréngāo), 杏仁糖膏 (xìngrén tánggāo), 杏仁糖 (xìngréntáng), 杏仁糖衣 (xìngrén tángyī)

• Czech: marcipán (cs) m
• Danish: marcipan (da) c
• Dutch: marsepein (nl) m
• Esperanto: marcipano
• Estonian: martsipan
• Finnish: marsipaani (fi)
• French: massepain (fr) m
• Galician: marzapán m
• German: Marzipan (de) n
• Greek: αμυγδαλόπαστα n pl (amygdalópasta), μάρτσιπαν n (mártsipan)
• Hebrew: מַרְצִיפָּן (he) m (martzipán)
• Hungarian: marcipán (hu)
• Icelandic: marsípan (is) m
• Ido: marcipano (io)
• Indonesian: marsepen (id), marzipan (id)
• Italian: marzapane (it) m
• Japanese: マルチパン (maruchipan), マジパン (majipan)
• Korean: 마지팬 (majipaen)
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• Latin: (New Latin) Mārtius pānis m, mārtipānis m, Mārcī pānis m
• Latvian: marcipāns m
• Limburgish: massepae n
• Lithuanian: marcipanas m
• Luxembourgish: Marzipan m
• Macedonian: марципа́н m (marcipán)
• Malay: marzipan
• Norwegian: marsipan m
• Persian: مارزیپان (mârzepân)
• Polish: marcepan (pl) m
• Portuguese: marzipã (pt) m, maçapão m
• Romanian: marțipan (ro) n
• Russian: марципа́н (ru) m (marcipán)
• Samogitian: marcėpans m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: марцѝпа̄н m

  Roman: marcìpān (sh) m

• Sicilian: marzapani (scn) m, mazzapani (scn) m, marzipani (scn) m
• Slovene: marcipan (sl) m
• Spanish: mazapán (es) m
• Swedish: marsipan (sv) c
• Tagalog: marsapan
• Turkish: masapan, marzipan
• Uzbek: marsipan
• Welsh: marsipán m
• West Flemish: marseping n

Verb

marzipan (third-person singular simple present marzipans, present participle marzipanning, simple past and past participle marzipanned)

1. (transitive) To cover with marzipan.

   a marzipanned cake