beignet

Meaning

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

Concepts

fritter

doughnut

pancake

donut

fritters

beignet

cruller

biscuit

fool

simpleton

sinker

anchor ring

annulus

halo

ring

Bauchlandung

cake

closed compound

crêpe

pancakes

Gender

♂️ Masculine

Pronounced as (IPA)

/bɛ.ɲɛ/

Etymology

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