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English Rosewater-flavored Turkish delight
Etymology Allegedly coined by an English traveller who could not pronounce the Ottoman Turkish name راحت الحلقوم ( râhatü'l-hulkûm ) , 18th c.[ 1]
Noun Turkish delight usually uncountable , plural Turkish delights
A soft, sticky confection made from starch and sugar with various flavourings .
Synonyms: locoum loukoumi lumps of delight
Translations confection
Albanian: llokum (sq) m rahat llokum m
Arabic: رَاحَة الْحُلْقُوم f ( rāḥat al-ḥulqūm )
Hijazi Arabic: حَلْقوم m or f ( ḥalgūm )
Armenian: լոխում (hy) ( loxum ) , ռահատ լոխում ( ṙahat loxum )
Azerbaijani: loxum lokum
Belarusian: раха́т-луку́м m ( raxát-lukúm ) , луку́м m ( lukúm )
Bulgarian: локу́м m ( lokúm )
Catalan: delícies turques f pl
Chinese:
Mandarin: 土耳其软糖 ( Tǔ'ěrqí ruǎntáng ) , 土耳其快樂糖 ／ 土耳其快乐糖 ( Tǔ'ěrqí kuàilètáng )
Czech: turecký med m rahat m lokum m turecké potěšení n
Danish: turkish delight c
Dutch: Turks fruit n
Esperanto: lukumo
Finnish: lokum (fi)
French: loukoum (fr) m rahat-loukoum (fr) m
Georgian: რაჰათლუკუმი ( rahatluḳumi )
German: Lokum n
Greek: λουκούμι (el) n ( loukoúmi )
Hebrew: רַחַת לוֹקוּם (he) ( rakhat lokum )
Hindi: टर्किश डिलाइट ( ṭarkiś ḍilāiṭ )
Hungarian: szultánkenyér (hu) , török csemege lokum (hu)
Italian: lokum m
Japanese: ロクム ( rokumu ) , ターキッシュ・ディライト ( tākisshu-diraito )
Korean: 로쿰 ( rokum ) , 터키시 딜라이트 ( teokisi dillaiteu )
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: loqim (ku) , lokim
Kyrgyz: рахат-лукум ( rahat-lukum )
Latin: lucumium n
Lithuanian: lukumas m
Macedonian: локум m ( lokum )
Malay: halwa maskat
Ottoman Turkish: راحت الحلقوم ( râhatü'l-hulkûm )
Persian: راحتالحلقوم ( râhat-ol-holqum ) , باسلق (fa) ( bâsloq )
Polish: rachatłukum (pl) n
Portuguese: manjar turco m delícia turca f
Romanian: rahat (ro) n rahat turcesc n
Russian: рахат-луку́м (ru) m ( raxat-lukúm ) , луку́м (ru) m ( lukúm )
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: ра́тлук m ра̀хат-ло̀кум m ло̀кум m
Roman: rátluk (sh) m ràhat-lòkum (sh) m lòkum (sh) m
Slovene: ratluk m turška slaščica f lokum m
Spanish: lokum m delicias turcas f pl
Swedish: marmeladkonfekt c
Turkish: lokum (tr) , rahat-lokum
Ukrainian: раха́т-луку́м m ( raxát-lukúm ) , луку́м m ( lukúm )
Uzbek: rohat-luqum (uz)
Vietnamese: như rahat-loukoum
References
^ Victoria Combe (2003 May 3) “Sweet little history”, in The Telegraph September 11, 2017
Further reading
Turkish delight on Wikipedia.Wikipedia 