doughnut

English

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Alternative forms

donut (North America)

Etymology

dough +‎ nut, 1809.^[1] 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

IPA: /ˈdəʊnʌt/
Hyphenation: dough‧nut

Noun

filled doughnuts

doughnut (plural doughnuts)

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.
Anything in the shape of a torus.
(North America) A peel-out or skid mark in the shape of a circle; a 360-degree skid.
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

Translations

deep-fried piece of dough or batter

Albanian: donut (sq) m
Arabic: دونات (ar) (dunaat) m
Azeri: pişi (az) m, əyirdək (az)
Catalan: dònat (ca) m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 油炸圈餅 (cmn), 油炸圈饼 (cmn) (yóuzhá quānbǐng), 炸面圈 (cmn) (zhámiànquān), 甜甜圈 (cmn) (tiántiánquān)
Czech: kobliha (cs) f
Danish: donut (da) c, (rare) munkering (da), berliner (da) c (with filling)
Dutch: donut (nl), berlinerbol (nl) (with filling)
Esperanto: benjeto (eo)
Estonian: sõõrik (et) m
Finnish: munkki (fi)
French: beignet (fr) m, donut (fr) m
German: Krapfen (de) f (ellipsoidal), Donut (de) m, Berliner (de) m, Pfannkuchen (de) m
Greek: λουκουμάς (el) (loukoumás) m
Haitian Creole: bèy
Hebrew: סֻפְגָּנִיָּה (he) (sufganiya)
Hindi: डोनट (hi) (ḍōnaṭ)
Hungarian: fánk (hu)
Icelandic: kleinuhringur (is) m
Indonesian: donat (id)
Inupiak: uqsrukuaqtaq (ik)
Irish: taoschnó (ga) m

Italian: bombolone (it) m
Japanese: ドーナツ (ja) (dōnatsu), ドーナッツ (ja) (dōnattsu)
Jèrriais: miclotte f, godenitchette f
Korean: 도넛 (ko) (doneot), 가락지빵 (ko) (garakjibbang) (ring-shaped donut; used in North Korea)
Malay: donat (ms)
Navajo: bááh łikaní bigháhoodzání
Norwegian:
Bokmål: smultring (no) m, berlinerbolle (no) m (with filling)

Nynorsk: smultring (nn) m
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: пончик (ru) (pónčik) m
Serbo-Croatian: крафна (sh) f, krafna (sh) f
Slovene: krof (sl) m
Spanish: dona (es) f, rosquilla (es) f, anillo (es) m
Swahili: andazi (sw)
Swedish: munk (sv) c
Tagalog: donat (tl)
Turkish: donut (tr)
Vietnamese: bánh rán (vi)
Welsh: toesen (cy) m