beignet

beignet

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French beignet, ultimately of Frankish origin.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈbɛn.jeɪ/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /bɛnˈjeɪ/

Noun

beignet (plural beignets)

1. (UK) A fritter (with a fruit or vegetable filling).
2. (US) A Louisiana-style fried doughnut or fritter covered in powdered sugar.

   We sat in a New Orleans cafe eating beignets and sipping cappuccinos.

Translations

fritter

Esperanto: benjeto Finnish: beignet (fi) French: beignet (fr) m Italian: bignè m Latin: scriblīta f Spanish: buñuelo (es) m Tagalog: bunwelos

donut

Finnish: beignet (fi) French: beignet (fr) m Spanish: buñuelo (es) m, buñuelo de viento m Tagalog: bunwelos

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Dutch

Etymology

From French beignet.

Pronunciation

• Audio

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Noun

beignet c (plural beignets, diminutive beignetje n)

1. a beignet

Derived terms

• appelbeignet

Descendants

• → Sranan Tongo: benye

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Finnish

Etymology

Borrowed from French beignet.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbenjeː/, [ˈbe̞nje̞ː]

Noun

beignet

1. beignet

Declension

Inflection of beignet (Kotus type 22/parfait, no gradation)
nominative		beignet	beignet’t
genitive		beignet’n	beignet’iden beignet’itten
partitive		beignet’tä	beignet’itä
illative		beignet’hen	beignet’ihin
		singular	plural
nominative		beignet	beignet’t
accusative	nom.	beignet	beignet’t
	gen.	beignet’n
genitive		beignet’n	beignet’iden beignet’itten
partitive		beignet’tä	beignet’itä
inessive		beignet’ssä	beignet’issä
elative		beignet’stä	beignet’istä
illative		beignet’hen	beignet’ihin
adessive		beignet’llä	beignet’illä
ablative		beignet’ltä	beignet’iltä
allative		beignet’lle	beignet’ille
essive		beignet’nä	beignet’inä
translative		beignet’ksi	beignet’iksi
instructive		—	beignet’in
abessive		beignet’ttä	beignet’ittä
comitative		—	beignet’ineen

Possessive forms of beignet (type parfait)
possessor	singular	plural
1st person	beignet’ni	beignet’mme
2nd person	beignet’si	beignet’nne
3rd person	beignet’nsä

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French

Etymology

From Middle French bignet, from Old French bignet (“fried dough enveloping a food substance”), a diminutive of bigne, bugne, buyne (“lump, swelling”), from Frankish *bungjo (“lump, bump, swelling”), from Proto-Germanic *bungô, *bunkô (“lump, heap, crowd”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰenǵʰ- (“thick, dense, fat”). Cognate with Old High German bungo (“swelling, tuber”) (German Bunge), Dutch bonk (“lump, clump”), Gaulish *bunia, Scottish Gaelic bonnach (“cake, biscuit”). Also related to bun, bunk, bunch, bunion.

Equivalent to beigne +‎ -et.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bɛ.ɲɛ/, /be.ɲɛ/

• Audio

  (file)

Noun

beignet m (plural beignets)

1. beignet (fritter filled with fruit etc)
2. doughnut

Descendants

• → Dutch: beignet
• → English: beignet
• → Esperanto: benjeto
• → Italian: bignè

Further reading

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