candy

See also: Candy

English

Pronunciation

enPR: kăn'di, IPA^(key): /ˈkændi/
Audio (US) (file)
Rhymes: -ændi

Etymology 1

From Middle English sugre-candy, from Old French sucre candi (literally “candied sugar”), from Arabic قَنْدِيّ‎ (qandiyy, “candied”), from Arabic قَنْد‎ (qand, “hard candy made by boiling cane sugar”), from Persian (kand); ultimately from Sanskrit खण्ड (khaṇḍa, “candied sugar”), root खण्ड् (khaṇḍ, “to divide, break into pieces”), or from Proto-Dravidian *kaṇṭu; compare Tamil கண்டு (kaṇṭu, “hard candy”).

Noun

candy (countable and uncountable, plural candies)

(uncountable, chiefly Canada, US) Edible, sweet-tasting confectionery containing sugar, or sometimes artificial sweeteners, and often flavored with fruit, chocolate, nuts, herbs and spices, or artificial flavors.
- 1991, Brayfield, Celia, The Prince:
  They came down to buy sugar, flour, saltfish or candy from Nana, to collect letters and exchange gossip.
(countable, chiefly Canada, US) A piece of confectionery of this kind.
- 1991, Ann Granger, A Season for Murder:
  Unwholesome pink and yellow candies were sold from trays.
(slang) crack cocaine

Synonyms

(confection): confectionery, sweets (British), lollies (Australia), sugar candy (US)
(piece of candy): sweet (British), lolly (Australia)

Derived terms

Terms derived from candy

Translations

confection — see confectionery

piece of candy

Afrikaans: lekkergoed
Albanian: karamele (sq) f
Arabic: حَلْوَى‎‎ f (ḥalwā), حَلْوَى سُكَّرِيَّة‎‎ f (ḥalwā sukkariyya)
Armenian: կոնֆետ (hy) (konfet)
Azerbaijani: konfet (az), çərəz (az)
Bashkir: кәнфит (känfit)
Belarusian: цуке́рка f (cukjérka)
Bengali: মিছরি (michri), ক্যান্ডি (kjanḍi)
Bulgarian: бонбо́н m (bonbón)
Burmese: ချိုချဉ် (my) (hkyuihkyany), သကြားလုံး (my) (sa.kra:lum:)
Catalan: caramel (ca) m, llaminadura (ca) f
Chinese:
Cantonese: 糖 (tong⁴^-²)

Mandarin: 糖果 (zh) (tángguǒ), 糖 (zh) (táng)
Crimean Tatar: qanfet
Czech: sladkost f, bonbón (cs) m
Danish: slik (da)
Dutch: snoep (nl)
Esperanto: dolĉaĵo, sukeraĵo
Estonian: komm (et), kompvek
Faroese: góðgæti n, bomm n
Finnish: karkki (fi)
French: bonbon (fr) m, sucrerie (fr) f
Georgian: კანფეტი (ka) (ḳanpeṭi)
German: Bonbon (de) m, n, Konfekt n
Greek: καραμέλα (el) f (karaméla), ζαχαρωτό (el) n (zacharotó)
Hebrew: סוכריה / סֻכָּרִיָּה‎‎ (he) f (sukari'a)
Hindi: कैंडी (kaiṇḍī), मिसरी (hi) f (misrī)
Hungarian: cukorka (hu), édesség (hu)
Icelandic: sælgæti n, nammi n
Ido: bonbono (io)
Indonesian: permen (id)
Interlingua: bonbon
Irish: milseán (ga) m
Italian: caramella (it) f
Japanese: キャンデー (ja) (kyandē), キャンディ (ja) (kyandi), お菓子 (おかし, okashi), 飴 (ja) (ame)
Kazakh: кәмпит (kk) (kämpït)
Khmer: ស្ករ (km) (skɑɑ)
Korean: 사탕 (ko) (satang) (沙糖)
Kurdish:
Sorani: نوقڵ‎‎
Kyrgyz: конфета (konfeta)
Ladin: giaulon m (Sëlva), bigul m (Urtijëi)
Lao: ເຂົ້າຫນົມອົມ (khao nom ’om), ຂະຫນົມ (kha nom)

Latvian: saldums m, konfekte f
Lithuanian: saldainis m
Luxembourgish: Kamell (lb) f
Macedonian: бонбона f (bonbona)
Malagasy: vatomamy (mg)
Malay: gula-gula
Malayalam: മിഠായി (ml) (miṭhāyi)
Mari:
Western Mari: кампеткӓ (kampetkä)
Maricopa: ʼayuu mnyee
Mongolian: чихэр (mn) (čiher), мөсөн чихэр (mösön čiher)
Navajo: ałkʼésdisí
Norwegian: godteri n pl
O'odham: lulsi
Ossetian: къафетт (k’afett)
Pashto: مټايي‎‎ f (maṭāyí), مېټايي‎‎ m (meṭāyí)
Persian: آبنبات‎‎ (fa) (âbnabât), کانفت‎‎ (kânfet) (rare)
Polish: cukierek (pl) m
Portuguese: rebuçado (pt) m (Portugal), bombom (pt) m (Portugal), bala (pt) f (Brazil), confeito (pt)
Romanian: bomboană (ro) f
Russian: конфе́та (ru) f (konféta)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: бомбона f

Roman: bombona (sh) f
Slovak: cukrík (sk) m
Slovene: sladkarija (sl) f, bonbon m, slaščica f
Sotho: pompong
Spanish: caramelo (es) m, dulce (es) m, confite (es) m, golosina (es) f
Swedish: godis (sv) n (uncountable), karamell (sv) c
Tagalog: kendi
Tajik: конфет (tg) (konfet)
Tatar: кәнфит (qänfit), конфет (qonfet)
Thai: ขนม (th) (kà-nǒm), ขนมหวาน (kà-nǒm-wǎan)
Turkish: tatlı (tr)
Turkmen: süýji
Ukrainian: цуке́рка (uk) f (cukérka)
Urdu: کينڈی‎‎ (kainḍī)
Uyghur: ناۋات‎‎ (nawat)
Uzbek: shirinlik (uz), asal (uz), qand (uz), konfet (uz)
Veps: kanfet
Vietnamese: kẹo (vi)
Yakut: кэмпиэт (kempiet)
Zazaki: qende f

Verb

candy (third-person singular simple present candies, present participle candying, simple past and past participle candied)

(cooking) To cook in, or coat with, sugar syrup.
(intransitive) To have sugar crystals form in or on.
Fruits preserved in sugar candy after a time.
(intransitive) To be formed into candy; to solidify in a candylike form or mass.

Translations

to cook, or coat with sugar or syrup

Bulgarian: захаросвам (bg) (zaharosvam)
Finnish: kandeerata
French: candir (fr), confire (fr)
German: kandieren (de)

Greek: καραμελώνω (el) (karamelóno)
Hebrew: לסכר‎‎ (lesaker)
Hungarian: kandíroz (hu)
Swedish: kandera (sv)

Etymology 2

From Marathi खंडी (khaṇḍī), from Sanskrit खण्डन (khaṇḍana), from root खण्ड् (khaṇḍ, “to divide, break into pieces”).

Alternative forms

Noun

candy (plural candies)

(obsolete) A unit of mass used in southern India, equal to twenty maunds, roughly equal to 500 pounds avoirdupois but varying locally.

Synonyms

maunee

Translations

unit of mass

German: Candy m
Marathi: खंडी f (khaṇḍī)
Portuguese: candil (pt) m

Sanskrit: खण्डन (sa) (khaṇḍana)
Tamil: கண்டி (ta) (kaṇṭi), பாரம் (ta) (pāram)
Telugu: ఖండి (khaṇḍi), పుట్టి (te) (puṭṭi)

Anagrams

Dancy, dancy

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