nougat
See also: Nougat
English
WOTD – 30 August 2010
Raw nougat being whipped at the Palais des Bonbons et du Nougat in Montélimar, France
Two bars of French-style nougat
Hazelnut-based nougat in Germany
American (left) and British (right) versions of the same nougat-filled candy bar
Etymology
From French nougat, from Occitan nogat, from noga (“nut”), ultimately from Latin nux (“nut”) + -atus (“-ate, forming adjectives and substantives having or resembling some thing or trait”). Compare Spanish nuégado.
Pronunciation
- (General Australian, New Zealand) IPA(key): /ˈnuːɡɑː/
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈnʌɡɪt/, /ˈnuːɡɑː/
- (US, Canada) enPR: no͞oʹgu̇t IPA(key): /ˈnuɡət/
Audio (US) (file) Audio (AU) (file)
Noun
nougat (countable and uncountable, plural nougats)
- (uncountable) A mixture consisting of egg white and a sweetener, variously mixed with (in western Europe) almonds or (in eastern Europe) hazelnuts or (in US) used without nuts as a filler in candy bars.
- 1827, Guglielmo A. Jarrin, Italian Confectioner […] , 3rd ed. edition, page 24:
- Cake Nogat: This nogat may be made in moulds, or square pieces.
- 1999, Lyn Lifshin, “In Spite of His Dangling Pronoun”, in Before It's Light, page 29:
- […] (being twenty four and
never screwed but in her
soft nougat thighs) […]
- 2014 February 18, Sarah Begley, “The 13 Most Influential Candy Bars of All Time”, in Time:
- […] it helps that Snickers offers the holy trinity of confection: nougat, caramel and peanuts […]
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- (countable) A piece of this mixture, typically eaten as a confection.
- 1846, Antoine B. Beauvilliers, A Complete System of French Domestic Cookery […] , volume VI, page 235:
- When you make a nougat of large dimensions, put in the almonds a few at a time.
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Hyponyms
- Viennese nougat
Descendants
- → Chinese: 牛軋糖／牛轧糖 (niúzhátáng, niúgátáng)
- → Welsh: nyget
Translations
a confection of egg white, a sweetener, and (usually) nuts
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See also
- turrón
References
- “nougat, n.”, in OED Online
, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 2020. - Ragusea, Adam. "What Is Nougat and Why Is It in Every Candy Bar?", YouTube, 9 June 2020.
Anagrams
- toguna
Danish
Noun
nougat
- brown nougat, Viennese nougat
See also
- fransk nougat (“white nougat”)
Finnish
Alternative forms
- nugaa
Etymology
From French nougat.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈnuɡɑː/, [ˈnuɡɑː]
Noun
nougat
- nougat
Usage notes
As the inflection looks awkward, it may sometimes be advisable to use the Finnicized form nugaa (“nougat”).
Declension
| Inflection of nougat (Kotus type 22/parfait, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | nougat | nougat’t | |
| genitive | nougat’n | nougat’iden nougat’itten | |
| partitive | nougat’ta | nougat’ita | |
| illative | nougat’han | nougat’ihin | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | nougat | nougat’t | |
| accusative | nom. | nougat | nougat’t |
| gen. | nougat’n | ||
| genitive | nougat’n | nougat’iden nougat’itten | |
| partitive | nougat’ta | nougat’ita | |
| inessive | nougat’ssa | nougat’issa | |
| elative | nougat’sta | nougat’ista | |
| illative | nougat’han | nougat’ihin | |
| adessive | nougat’lla | nougat’illa | |
| ablative | nougat’lta | nougat’ilta | |
| allative | nougat’lle | nougat’ille | |
| essive | nougat’na | nougat’ina | |
| translative | nougat’ksi | nougat’iksi | |
| instructive | — | nougat’in | |
| abessive | nougat’tta | nougat’itta | |
| comitative | — | nougat’ineen | |
| Possessive forms of nougat (type parfait) | ||
|---|---|---|
| possessor | singular | plural |
| 1st person | nougat’ni | nougat’mme |
| 2nd person | nougat’si | nougat’nne |
| 3rd person | nougat’nsa | |
Anagrams
- guanot
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /nu.ɡa/
Audio (file)
Noun
nougat m (plural nougats)
- nougat
Descendants
- → Arabic: نُوغَة (nūḡa)
- → Armenian: նուգա (nuga)
- → Bulgarian: нуга (nuga)
- → Danish: nougat
- → Dutch: nougat
- → English: nougat (see there for further descendants)
- → Esperanto: nugato
- → Finnish: nugaa, nougat
- → Faroese: nugga
- → German: Nougat
- → Hebrew: נוגט (núgat)
- → Hungarian: nugát
- → Japanese: ヌガー (nugā)
- → Korean: 누가 (nuga)
- → New Latin: nucatum
- → Malay: nugat
- → Norwegian Bokmål: nugat, nougat
- → Norwegian Nynorsk: nugat, nougat
- → Polish: nugat
- → Portuguese: nougat
- → Russian: нуга́ (nugá)
- → Swedish: nougat
- → Vietnamese: nu-ga
Further reading
- “nougat”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Norwegian Bokmål
Alternative forms
- nugat
Etymology
From French nougat.
Noun
nougat m (definite singular nougaten, indefinite plural nougater, definite plural nougatene)
- nougat
Norwegian Nynorsk
Alternative forms
- nugat
Etymology
From French nougat.
Noun
nougat m (definite singular nougaten, indefinite plural nougatar, definite plural nougatane)
- nougat
Portuguese
Noun
nougat m (plural nougats)
- nougat (a confection of honey and roasted nuts)
- Synonym: nogado
Swedish
Etymology
From French nougat.
Noun
nougat c
- nougat
Declension
| Declension of nougat | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Plural | |||
| Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
| Nominative | nougat | nougaten | nougater | nougaterna |
| Genitive | nougats | nougatens | nougaters | nougaternas |