nougat

See also: Nougat

English

WOTD – 30 August 2010

Etymology

From French nougat, from Occitan nogat, from noga (“nut”), from Latin nux (“nut”). Compare Spanish nuégado.

Pronunciation

• (General Australian, General New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ˈnuːɡɑː/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈnʌɡɪt/, /ˈnuːɡɑː/
• (US, Canada) enPR: no͞oʹgu̇t IPA^(key): /ˈnuɡət/

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Noun

nougat (countable and uncountable, plural nougats)

1. A confection of honey or sugar and roasted nuts, often with other ingredients.

Translations

a confection of honey and roasted nuts

• Arabic: نُوغَة‎ f (nūḡa)

  Gulf Arabic: گز‎

• Armenian: նուգա (hy) (nuga)
• Bulgarian: нуга f (nuga)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 牛軋糖 (zh), 牛轧糖 (zh) (niúzhátáng, niúgátáng)

• Dutch: noga (nl) m, nougat (nl) m
• Esperanto: nugato
• Faroese: nugga n
• Finnish: nougat (fi), nugaa (fi)
• French: nougat (fr) m (nougatine (fr) f in the case of brown nougat)
• German: Nougat (de) m or n
• Greek: μαντολάτο (el) n (mantoláto)
• Hebrew: נוגט‎ (he) f (núgat)

• Hungarian: nugát (hu)
• Japanese: ヌガー (nugā)
• Korean: 누가 (nuga)
• Latin: nucatum
• Malay: nugat
• Norwegian:
  • Bokmål: nougat m, nugat m
  • Nynorsk: nougat m, nugat m
• Portuguese: nogado m, nougat (pt) m
• Russian: нуга́ (ru) f (nugá)
• Spanish: turrón francés m, nuégado m
• Swedish: nougat (sv)
• Vietnamese: kẹo nu-ga
• Welsh: nyget m

See also

• turrón

Further reading

• nougat on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• toguna

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Finnish

Alternative forms

• nugaa

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈnuɡɑː/, [ˈnuɡɑː]

Noun

nougat

1. nougat

Usage notes

As the inflection looks awkward, it may sometimes be advisable to use the Finnicized form nugaa (“nougat”).

Declension

Inflection of nougat (Kotus type 22/parfait, no gradation)
nominative		nougat	nougat’t
genitive		nougat’n	nougat’iden nougat’itten
partitive		nougat’ta	nougat’ita
illative		nougat’han	nougat’ihin
		singular	plural
nominative		nougat	nougat’t
accusative	nom.	nougat	nougat’t
	gen.	nougat’n
genitive		nougat’n	nougat’iden nougat’itten
partitive		nougat’ta	nougat’ita
inessive		nougat’ssa	nougat’issa
elative		nougat’sta	nougat’ista
illative		nougat’han	nougat’ihin
adessive		nougat’lla	nougat’illa
ablative		nougat’lta	nougat’ilta
allative		nougat’lle	nougat’ille
essive		nougat’na	nougat’ina
translative		nougat’ksi	nougat’iksi
instructive		—	nougat’in
abessive		nougat’tta	nougat’itta
comitative		—	nougat’ineen

Possessive forms of nougat (type parfait)
possessor	singular	plural
1st person	nougat’ni	nougat’mme
2nd person	nougat’si	nougat’nne
3rd person	nougat’nsa

Anagrams

• guanot

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nu.ɡa/

Noun

nougat m (plural nougats)

1. nougat

Further reading

• “nougat” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• nugat

Etymology

From French nougat.

Noun

nougat m (definite singular nougaten, indefinite plural nougater, definite plural nougatene)

1. nougat

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• nugat

Etymology

From French nougat.

Noun

nougat m (definite singular nougaten, indefinite plural nougatar, definite plural nougatane)

1. nougat

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Portuguese

Noun

nougat m (plural nougats)

1. nougat (a confection of honey and roasted nuts)

   Synonym: nogado

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Swedish

Noun

nougat ?

1. nougat