candy

See also: Candy

Contents

EnglishEdit

PronunciationEdit

• enPR: kăn'di, IPA^(key): /ˈkændi/

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• Rhymes: -ændi

Etymology 1Edit

From Middle English sugre-candy, 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 کند‏ (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)

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.

SynonymsEdit

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

Derived termsEdit

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

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 (michri), ক্যান্ডি (kyanḑi)
• Bulgarian: бонбо́н m (bonbón)
• Burmese: ချိုချဉ် (my) (hkyuihkyany), သကြားလုံး (my) (sa.kra:lum:)
• Catalan: caramel (ca) m, llaminadura (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 糖 (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
• Georgian: კანფეტი (ka) (ḳanpeṭi)
• German: Bonbon (de) m, n, Konfekt 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
• 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
• 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: کينڈی‏‎ (kainḍī)
• Uyghur: ناۋات‏‎ (nawat)
• Uzbek: shirinlik (uz), asal (uz), qand (uz), konfet (uz)
• Veps: kanfet
• 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)

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.

TranslationsEdit

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: לסכר‏‎ (lesaker)
• Hungarian: kandíroz (hu)
• Swedish: kandera (sv)

See alsoEdit

• 🍬 (Unicode candy symbol)

Etymology 2Edit

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

Alternative formsEdit

• candee
• kandy

NounEdit

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.

SynonymsEdit

• maunee

TranslationsEdit

unit of mass

• Marathi: खंडी f (khaṇḍī)
• Portuguese: candil (pt) m
• Sanskrit: खण्डन (sa) (khaṇḍana)

• Tamil: கண்டி (ta) (kaṇṭi), பாரம் (ta) (pāram)
• Telugu: ఖండి (khaṃḍi), పుట్టి (te) (puṭṭi)

AnagramsEdit

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