turrón

turrón (plural turrones)

1. Alternative spelling of turron.
   • 2023 May 30, Florence Fabricant, “The Migrant Kitchen Expands to Central Park’s Ballfields”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN:

     Egg custard, Basque cheesecake, chocolate turrón and caramel flan are some of the options.

Probably from Latin torrēre, possibly via Catalan torró. Cognate with Italian torrone, Sicilian turruni.

• IPA^(key): /tuˈron/ [t̪uˈrõn]
• Rhymes: -on
• Syllabification: tu‧rrón

turrón m (plural turrones)

1. turron (a sweet made from almonds, similar to nougat)

• → English: turron, turrón, touron
• → French: touron

• nuégado

• “turrón”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024