candy

See also: Candy

EnglishEdit

PronunciationEdit

enPR: kăn'di, IPA^(key): /ˈkændi/
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Rhymes: -ændi

Etymology 1Edit

From Old French sucre candi ("candy sugar"), from Arabic قَنْدِيّ ‎(qandiyy, “candied”), from Arabic قَنْد ‎(qand, “hard candy made by boiling cane sugar”), from Persian ‎(kand); ultimately from Sanskrit खण्ड ‎(khaṇḍa, “candied sugar”), root खण्ड् ‎(khaṇḍ, “to divide, break into pieces”), or from Proto-Dravidian *kaṇṭu; compare Tamil கண்டு ‎(kaṇṭu, “hard candy”).

NounEdit

candy ‎(countable and uncountable, plural candies)

(uncountable, chiefly Canada, US) Edible, sweet-tasting confectionery containing sugar, or sometimes artificial sweeteners, and often flavored with fruit, chocolate, nuts, herbs and spices, or artificial flavors.
- 1991, Brayfield, Celia, The Prince:
  They came down to buy sugar, flour, saltfish or candy from Nana, to collect letters and exchange gossip.
(countable, chiefly Canada, US) A piece of confectionery of this kind.
- 1991, Ann Granger, A Season for Murder:
  Unwholesome pink and yellow candies were sold from trays.

SynonymsEdit

(confection): confectionery, sweets (British), lollies (Australia), sugar candy (US)
(piece of candy): sweet (British), lolly (Australia)

Derived termsEdit

Terms derived from candy

TranslationsEdit

confection — see confectionery

piece of candy

Afrikaans: lekkergoed
Albanian: karamele (sq) f
Arabic: حَلْوَى f ‎(ḥalwā), حَلْوَى سُكَّرِيَّة f ‎(ḥalwā sukkariyya)
Armenian: կոնֆետ (hy) ‎(konfet)
Azeri: konfet (az), çərəz (az)
Bashkir: кәнфит ‎(känfit)
Belarusian: цуке́рка f ‎(cukjérka)
Bengali: মিছরি ‎(michôri), ক্যান্ডি ‎(kænḑi)
Bulgarian: бонбо́н m ‎(bonbón)
Burmese: ချိုချဉ် (my) ‎(hkyuihkyany)
Catalan: caramel (ca) m, llaminadura (ca) f
Chinese:
Cantonese: 糖 ‎(tong⁴⁻²)

Mandarin: 糖果 (zh) ‎(tángguǒ), 糖 (zh) ‎(táng)
Crimean Tatar: qanfet
Czech: sladkost f, bonbón (cs) m
Danish: slik (da)
Dutch: snoep (nl)
Esperanto: dolĉaĵo, sukeraĵo
Estonian: komm (et), kompvek
Faroese: góðgæti n, bomm n
Finnish: karkki (fi)
French: bonbon (fr) m, sucrerie (fr) f
Georgian: კანფეტი (ka) ‎(ḳanpeṭi)
German: Bonbon (de) m, n, Konfekt n
Greek: καραμέλα (el) f ‎(karaméla)
Hebrew: סוכריה / סֻכָּרִיָּה (he) f ‎(sukari'a)
Hindi: कैंडी ‎(kaiṇḍī), मिसरी (hi) f ‎(misrī)
Hungarian: cukorka (hu), édesség (hu)
Icelandic: sælgæti n, nammi n
Ido: bonbono (io)
Indonesian: permen (id)
Interlingua: bonbon
Irish: milseán (ga) m
Italian: caramella (it) f
Japanese: キャンデー ‎(kyandē), キャンディ ‎(kyandi), お菓子 ‎(おかし, okashi), あめ (ja) ‎(ame)
Kazakh: кәмпит (kk) ‎(kämpït)
Khmer: ស្ករ (km) ‎(skɑɑ)
Korean: 사탕 (ko) ‎(satang) (沙糖)

Kurdish:
Sorani: نوقڵ
Kyrgyz: конфета ‎(konfeta)
Lao: ເຂົ້າຫນົມອົມ ‎(khao nom 'om), ຂະຫນົມ ‎(kha nom)
Latvian: saldums m, konfekte f
Lithuanian: saldainis m
Luxembourgish: Kamell (lb) f
Macedonian: бонбона f ‎(bonbona)
Malagasy: vatomamy (mg)
Malay: gula-gula
Maricopa: ʼayuu mnyee
Mongolian: чихэр (mn) ‎(čiher), мөсөн чихэр ‎(mösön čiher)
Navajo: ałkʼésdisí
Norwegian: godteri n pl
O'odham: lulsi
Ossetian: къафетт ‎(k’afett)
Persian: آبنبات (fa) ‎(âbnabât), کانفت ‎(kânfet) (rare)
Polish: cukierek (pl) m
Portuguese: rebuçado (pt) m (Portugal), bombom (pt) m (Portugal), bala (pt) f (Brazil), confeito (pt)
Romanian: bomboană (ro) f
Russian: конфе́та (ru) f ‎(konféta)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: бомбона f

Roman: bombona (sh) f
Slovak: cukrík m
Slovene: sladkarija (sl) f, bonbon m
Sotho: pompong
Spanish: caramelo (es) m, dulce (es) m, confite (es) m, golosina (es) f
Swedish: godis (sv) n (uncountable), karamell (sv) c
Tagalog: kendi
Tajik: конфет (tg) ‎(konfet)
Tatar: кәнфит ‎(känfit), конфет ‎(qonfet)
Thai: ขนม (th) ‎(kà-nŏm), ขนมหวาน ‎(kà-nŏm wăan)
Turkish: tatlı (tr)
Turkmen: süýji
Ukrainian: цуке́рка (uk) f ‎(cukérka)
Urdu: کينڈی ‎(kainḍī)
Uzbek: shirinlik (uz), asal (uz), qand (uz), konfet (uz)
Vietnamese: kẹo (vi)
Yakut: кэмпиэт ‎(kempiet)
Zazaki: qende f

VerbEdit

candy ‎(third-person singular simple present candies, present participle candying, simple past and past participle candied)

(cooking) To cook in, or coat with, sugar syrup.
(intransitive) To have sugar crystals form in or on.
Fruits preserved in sugar candy after a time.
(intransitive) To be formed into candy; to solidify in a candylike form or mass.