Doughnut

Alternative forms

 * donut (North America)

Etymology
Dough + nut, first attested in in Washington Irving's Knickerbocker’s History of New York, 1809.  The original doughnuts were small, nut-sized balls of fried dough (the toroidal shape was to become common in the twentieth century).

Adjective

 * 1) (derogatory slang) A fat person.

Synonyms

 * Swiss roll

Noun



 * 1) A deep-fried piece of dough or batter, commonly of a toroidal (a ring doughnut) often mixed with various sweeteners and flavourings; or flattened sphere (a filled doughnut) shape filled with jam, custard or cream.
 * 2) Anything in the shape of a torus.
 * 3)  A peel-out or skid-mark in the shape of circle; a 360-degree skid.
 * 4) A spare car tyre, usually stored in the boot, that is smaller than a full sized tyre and is only intended for temporary use.

Synonyms

 * ring, torus

Translations

 * Albanian: donut
 * Arabic: دونات
 * Azeri: pişi, əyirdək
 * Catalan: dònat
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 油炸圈餅, 油炸圈饼, 炸面圈, 甜甜圈
 * Czech: kobliha
 * Danish:,  munkering
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: benjeto
 * Estonian: sõõrik
 * Finnish:, ,
 * French: ,
 * German: (ellipsoidal),
 * Haitian Creole:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: डोनट
 * Hungarian: fánk
 * Icelandic: kleinuhringur
 * Indonesian: donat


 * Irish: taoschnó
 * Italian: bombolone
 * Japanese: ドーナツ, ドーナッツ
 * Korean:, (ring-shaped donut; used in North Korea);
 * Malay: donut
 * Norwegian: smultring
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: (ring-shaped donut),  (filled donut). Both used in Brazil
 * Romanian: gogoaşă
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian: крафна, krafna
 * Slovene: krof
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: donat
 * Turkish: çörek
 * Vietnamese: bánh rán
 * Welsh: toesen


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 * Swahili: mandazi


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 * Swahili: mandazi