candy

See also: Candy

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: kăn'di, IPA^(key): /ˈkændi/

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• Rhymes: -ændi

Etymology 1

From Middle English sugre candy, from Old French sucre candi (literally “candied sugar”), from Arabic سُكَّر قَنْدِي‎ (sukkar qandī), from Arabic قَنْد‎ (qand, “rock candy”), from Persian کند‎ (kand); likely from Sanskrit खण्ड (khaṇḍa, “piece, fragment, candied sugar, dried molasses”), root खण्ड् (khaṇḍ, “to divide, break into pieces”), or from Proto-Dravidian *kaṇṭu; compare Tamil கண்டு (kaṇṭu, “hard candy”).

Noun

candy (countable and uncountable, plural candies)

1. (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.

2. (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.

3. (slang, chiefly US) crack cocaine

Synonyms

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

Derived terms

Terms derived from candy

• arm candy
• bee candy
• brain candy
• candy ass
• candy cane

• candy floss
• candy man
• candy store
• candy stripe
• candy striper

• cotton candy
• ear candy
• eye candy
• hard candy
• like taking candy from a baby

• mind candy
• nose candy
• rock candy
• sugar candy

Descendants

• → Hindi: कैंडी (kaiṇḍī)
• → Hopi: kyenti

Translations

confection — see confectionery

piece of candy

• Afrikaans: lekkergoed
• Albanian: karamele (sq) f, bonbone (sq) f, sheqerkë (sq) f
• Ambonese Malay: gula-gula
• Arabic: حَلْوَى‎ f (ḥalwā), حَلْوَى سُكَّرِيَّة‎ f (ḥalwā sukkariyya)

  Gulf Arabic: حلاو‎ (ḥəlaw)

• Armenian: կոնֆետ (hy) (konfet)
• Azerbaijani: konfet (az), çərəz (az)
• Bashkir: кәнфит (känfit)
• Belarusian: цуке́рка f (cukjérka)
• Bengali: মিছরি (michri), ক্যান্ডি (kjanḍi)
• Bulgarian: бонбо́н m (bonbón)
• Burmese: ချိုချဉ် (my) (hkyuihkyany), သကြားလုံး (my) (sa.kra:lum:)
• Catalan: caramel (ca) m, llaminadura (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 糖 (yue) (tong^4-2)

  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, dragée (fr) f
• Georgian: კანფეტი (ka) (ḳanpeṭi)
• German: Bonbon (de) m or n, Konfekt (de) n
• Greek: καραμέλα (el) f (karaméla), ζαχαρωτό (el) n (zacharotó)
• 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, confetto (it) m
• Japanese: キャンデー (ja) (kyandē), キャンディ (ja) (kyandi), お菓子 (おかし, okashi), 飴 (ja) (ame)
• Kazakh: кәмпит (kk) (kämpït)
• Khmer: ស្ករ (km) (skɑɑ)
• Korean: 사탕 (ko) (satang) (沙糖)
• Kurdish:

  Sorani: نوقڵ‎ (nuqill)

• Kyrgyz: конфета (konfeta)
• Ladin: giaulon m (Sëlva), bigul m (Urtijëi)
• Lao: ເຂົ້າຫນົມອົມ (khao nom ’om), ຂະຫນົມ (kha nom)

• Latin: cuppēdia n pl, bellāria n pl
• Latvian: saldums m, konfekte f
• Lithuanian: saldainis m
• Luxembourgish: Kamell (lb) f
• Macedonian: бонбона f (bonbona)
• Malagasy: vatomamy (mg)
• Malay: gula-gula
• Malayalam: മിഠായി (ml) (miṭhāyi)
• Mari:

  Western Mari: кампеткӓ (kampetkä)

• Maricopa: ʼayuu mnyee
• Mongolian: чихэр (mn) (čiher), мөсөн чихэр (mösön čiher)
• Navajo: ałkʼésdisí
• Norwegian: godteri n pl
• O'odham: lulsi
• Ossetian: къафетт (k’afett)
• Pashto: مټايي‎ f (maṭāyí), مېټايي‎ m (meṭāyí)
• 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 (sk) m
• Slovene: sladkarija (sl) f, bonbon m, slaščica f
• 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 (qänfit), конфет (qonfet)
• Thai: ขนม (th) (kà-nǒm), ขนมหวาน (kà-nǒm-wǎan)
• Turkish: tatlı (tr)
• Turkmen: süýji
• Ukrainian: цуке́рка (uk) f (cukérka)
• Urdu: کینڈی‎ (kaiṇḍī)
• Uyghur: ناۋات‎ (nawat), كەمپۈت‎ (kempüt), كەمپىت‎ (kempit)
• Uzbek: shirinlik (uz), asal (uz), qand (uz), konfet (uz)
• Veps: kanfet
• Vietnamese: kẹo (vi)
• White Hmong: khob noom
• Yakut: кэмпиэт (kempiet)
• Zazaki: qende f

Verb

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

1. (cooking) To cook in, or coat with, sugar syrup.
2. (intransitive) To have sugar crystals form in or on.

   Fruits preserved in sugar candy after a time.

3. (intransitive) To be formed into candy; to solidify in a candylike form or mass.

Translations

to cook, or coat with sugar or syrup

• Bulgarian: захаросвам (bg) (zaharosvam)
• Finnish: kandeerata
• French: candir (fr), confire (fr)
• German: kandieren (de)
• Greek: καραμελώνω (el) (karamelóno)

• Hebrew: סיכר‎ (sikér)
• Hungarian: kandíroz (hu)
• Italian: candire (it)
• Swedish: kandera (sv)

See also

• 🍬 (Unicode candy symbol)

Etymology 2

From Marathi खंडी (khaṇḍī), from Sanskrit खण्डन (khaṇḍana), from root खण्ड् (khaṇḍ, “to divide, break into pieces”).

Alternative forms

• candee
• candie
• kandy

Noun

candy (plural candies)

1. (obsolete) A unit of mass used in southern India, equal to twenty maunds, roughly equal to 500 pounds avoirdupois but varying locally.

Synonyms

• maunee

Translations

unit of mass

• German: Candy m
• Marathi: खंडी f (khaṇḍī)
• Portuguese: candil (pt) m

• Sanskrit: खण्डन (sa) (khaṇḍana)
• Tamil: கண்டி (ta) (kaṇṭi), பாரம் (ta) (pāram)
• Telugu: ఖండి (khaṇḍi), పుట్టి (te) (puṭṭi)

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