candy
English
/ˈkændi/
noun
Definitions
- (uncountable) Edible, sweet-tasting confectionery containing sugar, or sometimes artificial sweeteners, and often flavored with fruit, chocolate, nuts, herbs and spices, or artificial flavors.
- (countable) A piece of confectionery of this kind.
- (slang, chiefly US) crack cocaine.
Etymology
Derived from Middle English sugre candy derived from Old French sucre candi (candied sugar) derived from Arabic سُكَّر قَنْدِي, قَنْد (hard candy made by boiling cane sugar, rock candy) derived from Persian کند (candied sugar) derived from Sanskrit खण्ड (candied sugar, fragment, dried molasses, cut, slice, part, section, piece, broken piece, scrap, land, chip) derived from Proto-Dravidian *kaṇṭu.
Origin
Proto-Dravidian
*kaṇṭu
Gloss
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Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Uttarakhand English
- candify English
- candy-ass English
- candyflipping English
- candygram English
- candyish English
- candylike English
- candyman English
- cotton English
- cotton candy English
- flipping English
- man English
- sugar English
- sugar candy English
- känti Finnish
- キャンディ Japanese
- अखण्ड Sanskrit
- खण्ड Sanskrit
- suger candy Middle English
- sugre candy Middle English
- سُكَّر قَنْدِي Arabic
- قند Arabic
- قَنْد Arabic
- قَنْدِيّ Arabic
- sucre Old French
- sucre candi Old French
- कुंद Hindi
- कैंडी Hindi
- खंड Hindi
- قند Persian
- کند Persian
- ขันที Thai
- kendi Cebuano
- kendihan Cebuano
- kendi Tagalog
- qənd Azerbaijani
- ખંડ Gujarati
- ખાંડ Gujarati
- *kuntʰás Proto-Indo-Iranian
- 캔디 Korean
- kanakē Hawaiian
- Kaendi Pennsylvania German
- *kaṇṭu Proto-Dravidian
- kyenti Hopi
- खण Shina