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English
Raw nougat being whipped at the Palais des Bonbons et du Nougat in Montélimar, France
Two bars of French-style nougat
Hazelnut-based nougat in Germany
American (left) and British (right) versions of the same nougat-filled candy bar
Etymology
From French nougat , from Occitan nogat , from noga ( “ nut ” ) , ultimately from Latin nux ( “ nut ” ) + -atus ( “ -ate , forming adjectives and substantives having or resembling some thing or trait ” ) . Compare Spanish nuégado .
Pronunciation
Noun
nougat (countable and uncountable , plural nougats )
( uncountable ) A mixture consisting of egg white and a sweetener , variously mixed with ( in western Europe ) almonds or ( in eastern Europe ) hazelnuts or ( in US ) used without nuts as a filler in candy bars .
1827 , Guglielmo A. Jarrin, Italian Confectioner , 3rd edition, page 24 :Cake Nogat : This nogat may be made in moulds , or square pieces.
1999 , Lyn Lifshin, “In Spite of His Dangling Pronoun”, in Before It's Light , page 29 :[ …] (being twenty four and never screwed but in her soft nougat thighs) [ …]
2014 February 18 , Sarah Begley, “The 13 Most Influential Candy Bars of All Time”, in Time :[ …] it helps that Snickers offers the holy trinity of confection: nougat , caramel and peanuts [ …]
( countable ) A piece of this mixture , typically eaten as a confection .
1846 , Antoine B. Beauvilliers, A Complete System of French Domestic Cookery , volume VI, page 235 :When you make a nougat of large dimensions, put in the almonds a few at a time.
Hyponyms
Derived terms
Descendants
→ Cantonese: 鳥結糖 / 鸟结糖 ( niu5 git3 tong4-2 )
→ Wu: 鳥結糖 / 鸟结糖 ( 5 gniau-ciq-daon)
→ Welsh: nyget
→ Wu: 牛軋糖 / 牛轧糖 ( 6 gnieu-gaq-daon)
→ Hakka: 牛軋糖 / 牛轧糖 ( ngiù-kâ-thòng )
→ Mandarin: 牛軋糖 / 牛轧糖 ( niúzhátáng, niúgátáng )
Translations
a confection of egg white, a sweetener, and (usually) nuts
Arabic: نُوغَة f ( nūḡa )
Gulf Arabic: گز
Armenian: նուգա (hy) ( nuga )
Basque: nogat
Breton: please add this translation if you can
Bulgarian: нуга f ( nuga )
Catalan: nogat m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 牛軋糖 / 牛轧糖 (zh) ( niúzhátáng, niúgátáng )
Czech: nugát
Danish: nougat (da) c
Dutch: noga (nl) m , nougat (nl) m
Esperanto: nugato
Estonian: nugat
Faroese: nugga n
Finnish: nougat (fi) , nugaa (fi)
French: nougat (fr) m , nougatine (fr) f
Georgian: please add this translation if you can
German: Nougat (de) m or n
Greek: μαντολάτο (el) n ( mantoláto )
Hebrew: נוגט (he) f ( núgat )
Hungarian: nugát (hu)
Icelandic: please add this translation if you can
Italian: torrone (it) m , mandorlato (it) m
Japanese: ヌガー ( nugā )
Korean: 누가 ( nuga )
Latin: nucatum
Latvian: nuga f
Lithuanian: nuga f
Macedonian: ну́гат m ( núgat )
Malay: nugat
Maltese: qubbajt m
Norwegian:
Bokmål: nougat m , nugat m
Nynorsk: nougat m , nugat m
Occitan: nogat m
Polish: nugat (pl) m
Portuguese: nogado m , nougat (pt) m
Romanian: please add this translation if you can
Russian: нуга́ (ru) f ( nugá )
Slovak: nugát
Slovene: nugat
Spanish: turrón francés m , nuégado m
Swedish: nougat (sv)
Thai: ตังเม (th) ( dtang-mee ) , แตงเม (th) ( dtɛɛng-mee ) ( rare )
Vietnamese: kẹo nu-ga
Welsh: nyget m
Yiddish: נוגאַט m ( nugat )
See also
References
Anagrams
Danish
Noun
nougat
brown nougat , Viennese nougat
See also
Finnish
Etymology
From French nougat .
Pronunciation
Noun
nougat
nougat
Usage notes
As the inflection looks awkward, it may sometimes be advisable to use the Finnicized form nugaa ( “ nougat ” ) .
Declension
Further reading
Anagrams
French
Pronunciation
Noun
nougat m (plural nougats )
nougat
Descendants
Further reading
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From French nougat .
Noun
nougat m (definite singular nougaten , indefinite plural nougater , definite plural nougatene )
nougat
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From French nougat .
Noun
nougat m (definite singular nougaten , indefinite plural nougatar , definite plural nougatane )
nougat
Portuguese
Noun
nougat m (plural nougats )
nougat ( a confection of honey and roasted nuts )
Synonym: nogado
Swedish
Etymology
From French nougat .
Noun
nougat c
nougat
Declension