cognac

cognac

See also: Cognac

English

Etymology

French cognac, from Cognac, a city in France, from Medieval Latin Comniacum, from the name Cominius + Gallo-Roman suffix -acum, from Proto-Celtic *-ākom.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɒn.jæk/, /ˈkoʊn.jæk/

• Audio (RP)

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• Homophone: konjac

Noun

cognac (countable and uncountable, plural cognacs)

1. A brandy distilled from white wine in the region around Cognac in France.

   Major manufacturers add a small proportion of caramel to color their cognacs.

Translations

type of brandy

Arabic: كُونْيَاك‎ m (konyāk) Armenian: կոնյակ (hy) (konyak) Belarusian: канья́к m (kanʹják) Bulgarian: коня́к m (konják) Catalan: conyac m Chinese: Mandarin: 干邑白蘭地／干邑白兰地 (gānyì báilándì), 科涅克白蘭地／科涅克白兰地 (kēnièkè báilándì), 柯納克白蘭地／柯纳克白兰地 (kēnàkè báilándì) Czech: koňak (cs) m Danish: cognac c Dutch: cognac (nl) m Esperanto: konjako Estonian: konjak Finnish: konjakki (fi) French: cognac (fr) m Georgian: კონიაკი (ḳoniaḳi) German: Cognac (de) m, Kognak (de) m Greek: κονιάκ (el) n (koniák) Hebrew: קוניק‎ m (konyak) Hungarian: konyak (hu) Hunsrik: Konjack m Icelandic: koníak (is) n Indonesian: konyak (id) Italian: cognac Japanese: コニャック (konyakku), ブランデー (burandē) Khmer: គោញាក់ (kooñĕək) Korean: 코냑 (konyak), 브랜디 (ko) (beuraendi) Lithuanian: konjakas Luxembourgish: Cognac m Macedonian: ко́њак m (kónjak) Malay: cognac Norman: couongnac m, martel m Norwegian: Bokmål: konjakk (no) m Nynorsk: konjakk m Ottoman Turkish: قونیاق‎ (konyak) Persian: کنیاک‎ (fa) Polish: koniak (pl) m Portuguese: conhaque (pt) m Russian: конья́к (ru) m (konʹják) Spanish: coñac (es) m Swedish: konjak (sv) c Tagalog: konyak, kunyak Tajik: коняк (tg) (konyak) Turkish: konyak (tr) Ukrainian: конья́к m (konʹják) Uzbek: konyak (uz) Vietnamese: rượu cô-nhắc Volapük: konyak (vo)

See also

• Armagnac

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Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from French cognac.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈkʰʌnˀjɑɡ̊]

Noun

cognac c (singular definite cognacen, plural indefinite cognacer)

1. brandy, cognac

Declension

Declension of cognac

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	cognac	cognacen	cognacer	cognacerne
genitive	cognacs	cognacens	cognacers	cognacernes

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Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French cognac.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔnˈjɑk/

• Audio

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• Hyphenation: cog‧nac
• Rhymes: -ɑk

Noun

cognac m (plural cognacs, diminutive cognacje n)

1. (a glass of) cognac

Derived terms

• cognacglas

Descendants

• → Indonesian: konyak

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French

Etymology

The city's name is from Medieval Latin Comniacum, from the name Cominius + Gallo-Roman suffix -acum, from Proto-Celtic *-ākom. The gens Cominius is an Italic family name; see Cominia for further details.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔ.ɲak/

• Audio

  (file)

Noun

cognac m (plural cognacs)

1. cognac

Descendants

• Russian: конья́к m (konʹják)
• Polish: koniak m

Further reading

• “cognac”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.