candy

Bedeutung (Englisch)

Noun

1. (Canada, Philippines, US, uncountable) Edible, sweet-tasting confectionery containing sugar, or sometimes artificial sweeteners, and often flavored with fruit, chocolate, nuts, herbs and spices, or artificial flavors.
2. (Canada, Philippines, US, countable) A piece of confectionery of this kind.
3. (US, countable, slang, uncountable) crack cocaine.
4. (uncountable) An accessory (bracelet, etc.) made from pony beads, associated with the rave scene.

Verb

1. To cook in, or coat with, sugar syrup.
2. (intransitive) To have sugar crystals form in or on.
3. (intransitive) To be formed into candy; to solidify in a candylike form or mass.

Konzepte

Bonbon

Süßigkeit

Konfekt

kandieren

🍬

Karamelle

🍬

Süßware

Süßigkeiten

Kandis

Naschereien

Lekerei

Lutscher

n

Süßes

Zeltli

Zuckerl

Caramel

Dauerlutscher

🍭

Lolli

🍭

Lutschbonbon

n''

Balsam

Bonbon ''m

Bonbons

Drops

Gebäck

Kandiszucker

Karamel

Karamell

Konditorwaren

Kuchen

🥧

Synonyme

sweet

sweets

confection

sweetmeat

bonbon

toffee

sugar

confectionery

lolly

sugarcoat

dessert

lollipop

🍭

caramel

glaze

goody

burnt sugar

candies

confect

confectionary

cookie

🍪

pastry

sucker

sugarplum

sweetmeats

sugar candy

sticky sweet

fruit-drop

lozenge

marshmallow

mildness

Scotch kiss

patty

preserve

sweets

dainty

crystallise

pastille valda

confetti

🎊

sweeten

sweetie

confections

doolsey

sweetness

comfit

sweet stuff

tidbit

titbit

cake

🍰

hard candy

confectionery

Übersetzungen

bonbon

caramelo

caramella

snoep

sucrerie

bombom

dulce

friandise

καραμέλα

caramel

şekerleme

snoepgoed

🍬

zoetigheid

bonbon

Ausgesprochen als (IPA)

/ˈkændi/

Etymologie (Englisch)

Verwandt mit Tamil: கண்டு

In summary

From Middle English sugre candy, from Old French sucre candi (literally “candied sugar”), from Arabic سُكَّر قَنْدِي (sukkar qandī), from Arabic قَنْد (qand, “rock candy”), from Persian کند (kand) from Sanskrit खण्ड (khaṇḍa, “piece, fragment, candied sugar, dried molasses”), root खण्ड् (khaṇḍ, “to divide, break into pieces”), or from Proto-Dravidian *kaṇṭu; compare Tamil கண்டு (kaṇṭu, “hard candy”).