different between beignet vs sopapilla

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French beignet, ultimately of Frankish origin.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?b?n.je?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /b?n?je?/

Noun

beignet (plural beignets)

1. (Britain) A fritter (with a fruit or vegetable filling).
2. (US) A Louisiana-style fried doughnut or fritter covered in powdered sugar.

   We sat in a New Orleans cafe eating beignets and sipping cappuccinos.

Translations

Dutch

Etymology

From French beignet

Pronunciation

Noun

beignet c (plural beignets, diminutive beignetje n)

1. a beignet

Derived terms

• appelbeignet

Finnish

Etymology

Borrowed from French beignet.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?benje?/, [?be?nje??]

Noun

beignet

1. beignet

Declension

French

Etymology

From Middle French bignet, from Old French bignet (“fried dough enveloping a food substance”), a diminutive of bigne, bugne, buyne (“lump, swelling”), from Frankish *bungjo (“lump, bump, swelling”), from Proto-Germanic *bungô, *bunkô (“lump, heap, crowd”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?en??- (“thick, dense, fat”). Cognate with Old High German bungo (“swelling, tuber”) (German Bunge), Dutch bonk (“lump, clump”), Gaulish *bunia, Scottish Gaelic bonnach (“cake, biscuit”). Also related to bun, bunk, bunch, bunion.

Equivalent to beigne +? -et.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b?.??/

Noun

beignet m (plural beignets)

1. beignet (fritter filled with fruit etc)

Descendants

• ? Dutch: beignet
• ? English: beignet
• ? Italian: bignè

Further reading

• “beignet” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Noun

sopapilla (plural sopapillas)

1. Alternative spelling of sopaipilla