different between brandy vs noyau

English

Etymology

Shortened form of brandywine, from Dutch brandewijn (“burnt wine”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: br?n?d?, IPA^(key): /?b?ændi/
• Rhymes: -ændi

Noun

brandy (countable and uncountable, plural brandies)

1. (uncountable) An alcoholic liquor distilled from wine or fermented fruit juice.
2. (countable) Any variety of brandy.
3. (countable) A glass of brandy.

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Abenaki: blandi
• ? Basque: brandy
• ? Cebuano: brandi
• ? Chinese:

  Cantonese: ??? (bat⁶ laan^4-1 dei^6-2), ??? (baak⁶ laan^4-1 dei^6-2)

  Mandarin: ??? (báilándì)

  Min Nan: ??? (bu?t-lân-tî)

• ? Czech: brandy
• ? Danish: brandy
• ? Dutch: brandy
• ? Finnish: brandy
• ? Galician: brandy
• ? German: Brandy
• ? Greek: ??????? (bránti)
• ? Hungarian: brandy
• ? Icelandic: brandí
• ? Irish: branda
• ? Italian: brandy
• ? Japanese: ????? (burand?)
• ? Korean: ??? (beuraendi)
• ? Lower Sorbian: brandy
• ? Norwegian: brandy
• ? Occitan: brandy
• ? Polish: brandy
• ? Portuguese: brande, brandy
• ? Romanian: brandy
• ? Russian: ?????? (brendi)
  • ? Armenian: ?????? (brendi)
• ? Scottish Gaelic: branndaidh
• ? Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ??????

  Latin: brendi

• ? Spanish: brandy
• ? Swahili: brandi
• ? Swedish: brandy
• ? Tagalog: brandi
• ? Thai: ??????? (bràn-dii)
• ? Turkish: brendi
• ? Vietnamese: brandy, bran?i
• ? Welsh: brandi

Translations

Verb

brandy (third-person singular simple present brandies, present participle brandying, simple past and past participle brandied)

1. (transitive) To preserve, flavour, or mix with brandy.

Translations

See also

• cognac

Danish

Etymology

From English brandy, shortened from brandywine, from Dutch brandewijn. Doublet of brændevin.

Noun

brandy

1. brandy

Finnish

(index b)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?brændi/, [?brændi]
• Homophone: brändi
• Syllabification: bran?dy

Noun

brandy

1. brandy (distilled spirit made of grapes)

Declension

See also

• hedelmäviina

Polish

Etymology

From English brandy.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?br?n.d?/

Noun

brandy f (indeclinable)

1. brandy (liquor)

Further reading

• brandy in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• brandy in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Noun

brandy m (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of brande

Spanish

Noun

brandy m (plural brandys or brandies)

1. brandy

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French noyau.

Noun

noyau (plural noyaus)

1. A French liqueur made at Poissy in north central France from brandy and flavoured with almonds and the pits of apricots. [from 18th c.]
   • 1792, James Boswell, in Danziger & Brady (eds.), Boswell: The Great Biographer (Journals 1789–1795), Yale 1989, p. 178:

     His coffee was excellent, and then came a case of liqueurs, noyau both white and red, etc.

2. (ethology) A small nucleus or core group of people or animals. [from 20th c.]
   • 1966 August 26, Richard Ardrey, "Strongest Bond of All - The Space We Own" in LIFE, page 58:

     Borders are violated by hungering males and famished females, and the ordered animosities of the noyau give way to a saturnalia of sexual adventure.

   • 1999, Ronald M. Nowak, Walker's Primates of the World, JHU Press ?ISBN, page 27

     The orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus) also exhibits the noyau system and appears to be the only diurnal primate with a largely solitary lifestyle.

   • 2000, Sergio M. Pellis & Andrew N. Iwaniuk, "Adult-Adult Play in Primates: Comparative Analyses of Its Origin, Distribution and Evolution", Ethology 106, page 1089:

     This "noyau" pattern is found among various nocturnal strepsirrhines.

References

• https://web.archive.org/web/20130330004136/http://www.noyaudepoissy.com/pages/histoire.htm

French

Etymology

From Late Latin nuc?lis, from Latin nux.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nwa.jo/

Noun

noyau m (plural noyaux)

1. stone (of a fruit), pit (of a fruit)
2. group (of artists etc.); cell (of terrorists etc.)
3. (geology) core
4. (biology, physics) nucleus
5. (computing) kernel
6. (phonetics, phonology) nucleus of a syllable

   Antonyms: attaque, coda

Derived terms

• antinoyau
• noyautage
• noyauter

Related terms

• noix

Further reading

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