English
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) (rákhat lókum)
- 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)
- Pannonian Rusyn: сланїнки f pl (slanjinki), ратлук m (ratluk)
- 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
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References
- ^ Victoria Combe (3 May 2003) “Sweet little history”, in The Telegraph[1], retrieved 11 September 2017
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