beignet

common noun

Syllable Decomposition

beignet

from Middle French bignet, from Old French bugnette (boil), diminutive of buigne, bugne "swelling caused by a blow", from Old Low Franconian bungo|sense=mass, cluster, from Proto-Germanic bungô bunkô, from Proto-Indo-European bʰenǵʰ-|sense=thick, dense, fat (cf. Dutch bong "drum"), related to German bunge "plant with large tubers", Icelandic bunge ("convexity").

Definition

Plural

beignets

Translations

  • germangerman:Beignet
  • englishenglish:fritter
  • chinesechinese:贝奈特饼
  • spanishspanish:frito
  • italianitalian:bignola
  • japanesejapanese:パンプーシュカ
  • dutchdutch:oliebol
  • russianrussian:пампушка
  • ukrainianukrainian:пампушка

See also