nougat

See also: Nougat

English

WOTD – 30 August 2010

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Australia, New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ˈnuːɡɑː/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈnʌɡɪt/, /ˈnuːɡɑː/
• (US) enPR: no͞oʹgu̇t IPA^(key): /ˈnuːɡət/

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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)
• Chinese:

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

• Dutch: noga (nl)
• 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, 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: nougat m
• Portuguese: nogado m, nougat m
• Russian: нуга́ (ru) f (nugá)
• Spanish: turrón francés m, nuégado m
• Swedish: nougat
• 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): /ˈnuˌɡɑː/

Noun

nougat

1. 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

Usage notes

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

Anagrams

• guanot

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nuɡɑ/

Noun

nougat m (plural nougats)

1. nougat

Further reading

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

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Portuguese

Noun

nougat m (plural nougats)

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

Synonyms

• nogado