Turkish delight

See also: turkish delight

English

Rosewater-flavored Turkish delight

Etymology

Allegedly coined by an English traveller who could not pronounce the Ottoman Turkish name راحت الحلقوم (râhatü'l-hulkûm), 18th c.

Noun

Turkish delight (usually uncountable, plural Turkish delights)

1. A soft, sticky confection made from starch and sugar with various flavourings.

   Synonyms: locoum, loukoumi, lumps of delight

Translations

confection

• Albanian: llokum (sq) m, rahat llokum m
• Arabic: رَاحَة الْحُلْقُوم f (rāḥat al-ḥulqūm)

  Hijazi Arabic: حَلْقوم m or f (ḥalgūm)

• Armenian: լոխում (hy) (loxum), ռահատ լոխում (ṙahat loxum)
• Azerbaijani: loxum, lokum
• Belarusian: раха́т-луку́м m (raxát-lukúm), луку́м m (lukúm)
• Bulgarian: локу́м m (lokúm)
• Catalan: delícies turques f pl
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 土耳其软糖 (Tǔ'ěrqí ruǎntáng), 土耳其快樂糖／土耳其快乐糖 (Tǔ'ěrqí kuàilètáng)

• Czech: turecký med m, rahat m, lokum m, turecké potěšení n
• Danish: turkish delight c
• Dutch: Turks fruit n
• Esperanto: lukumo
• Finnish: lokum (fi)
• French: loukoum (fr) m, rahat-loukoum (fr) m
• Georgian: რაჰათლუკუმი (rahatluḳumi)
• German: Lokum n
• Greek: λουκούμι (el) n (loukoúmi)
• Hebrew: רַחַת לוֹקוּם (he) (rakhat lokum)
• Hindi: टर्किश डिलाइट (ṭarkiś ḍilāiṭ)
• Hungarian: szultánkenyér (hu), török csemege, lokum (hu)
• Italian: lokum m
• Japanese: ロクム (rokumu), ターキッシュ・ディライト (tākisshu-diraito)
• Korean: 로쿰 (rokum), 터키시 딜라이트 (teokisi dillaiteu)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: loqim (ku), lokim

• Kyrgyz: рахат-лукум (rahat-lukum)
• Latin: lucumium n
• Lithuanian: lukumas m
• Macedonian: локум m (lokum)
• Malay: halwa maskat
• Ottoman Turkish: راحت الحلقوم (râhatü'l-hulkûm)
• Persian: راحت‌الحلقوم (râhat-ol-holqum), باسلق (fa) (bâsloq)
• Polish: rachatłukum (pl) n
• Portuguese: manjar turco m, delícia turca f
• Romanian: rahat (ro) n, rahat turcesc n
• Russian: рахат-луку́м (ru) m (raxat-lukúm), луку́м (ru) m (lukúm)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ра́тлук m, ра̀хат-ло̀кум m, ло̀кум m

  Roman: rátluk (sh) m, ràhat-lòkum (sh) m, lòkum (sh) m

• Slovene: ratluk m, turška slaščica f, lokum m
• Spanish: lokum m, delicias turcas f pl
• Swedish: marmeladkonfekt c
• Turkish: lokum (tr), rahat-lokum
• Ukrainian: раха́т-луку́м m (raxát-lukúm), луку́м m (lukúm)
• Uzbek: rohat-luqum (uz)
• Vietnamese: như rahat-loukoum

Further reading

• Turkish delight on Wikipedia.Wikipedia