See also: Kuchen, Küchen, and küchen-

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Marmorkuchen (marble cake)

Etymology edit

Borrowed from German Kuchen. Doublet of quiche.

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Noun edit

kuchen (countable and uncountable, plural kuchens)

  1. Any of several types of cake, typically eaten with coffee.
    • 1915, National Baker, volume 20, page 72:
      French pastry and bread, Vienna rolls and German kuchens will also be included in the list of articles placed on sale.
    • 1920 November 9, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, Women in Love, New York, N.Y.: Privately printed [by Thomas Seltzer] for subscribers only, →OCLC:
      “Shall we go down and have coffee and Kuchen?” he asked.
    • 1970, The Culinarian: Official Publication of the Chefs Association of the Pacific Coast, volume 15, page 24:
      Peanuts can be substituted for other nuts in the multitude of German kuchens, tortes and such goodies.
    • 1989, Martin M. Pegler, editor, Successful Food Merchandising and Display, Retail Reporting Corporation, →ISBN, page 7, column 1:
      It is baguettes, bagels, braided challahs, big black Russian pumpernickels, light and fluffy German kuchens and Syrian pitas large or small.
    • 2010 [1949], Marion Flexner, Out Of Kentucky Kitchens, University Press of Kentucky, →ISBN, page 226:
      We always make up two crusts at a time, lining two pans with the kuchen dough and keeping one in the icebox until ready to bake.

Dutch edit

Etymology edit

From Middle Dutch cuchen, coechen, cochen, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *kuh- (to cough), likely of onomatopoeic origin. Akin to English cough, German keuchen.

Pronunciation edit

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Verb edit

kuchen

  1. to give out a dry and brief cough

Inflection edit

Inflection of kuchen (weak)
infinitive kuchen
past singular kuchte
past participle gekucht
infinitive kuchen
gerund kuchen n
present tense past tense
1st person singular kuch kuchte
2nd person sing. (jij) kucht kuchte
2nd person sing. (u) kucht kuchte
2nd person sing. (gij) kucht kuchte
3rd person singular kucht kuchte
plural kuchen kuchten
subjunctive sing.1 kuche kuchte
subjunctive plur.1 kuchen kuchten
imperative sing. kuch
imperative plur.1 kucht
participles kuchend gekucht
1) Archaic.

Noun edit

kuchen

  1. plural of kuch

Spanish edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from German Kuchen. Doublet of quiche.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

kuchen m (plural kúchenes)

  1. cake, especially made with fruit