different between donut vs donat

English

Alternative forms

• doughnut

Etymology

Alteration of doughnut, from dough +? nut. Attested 1900.

Pronunciation

• (US, Canada) IPA^(key): /?do?n?t/, /?do??n?t/
• Rhymes: -?t

Noun

donut (plural donuts)

1. (American spelling, Canadian spelling) A deep-fried piece of dough or batter, commonly made in a toroidal or ellipsoidal shape, and mixed with various sweeteners and flavors, sometimes filled with jelly, custard or cream.
   • 1900, George Wilbur Peck, Peck’s bad boy and his pa, Stanton and Van Vliet, p. 107:

     …Pa said he guessed he hadn’t got much appetite, and he would just drink a cup of coffee and eat a donut.

2. (Canada, US) Anything in the shape of a torus.
3. (Canada, US, automobile) A peel-out or skid-mark in the shape of donut; a 360-degree skid.
4. (Canada, US) A spare tire, smaller and less durable than a full-sized tire, only intended for temporary use.
5. A toroidal cushion typically used by hemorrhoid patients.
6. (Canada, US, slang) An idiot. (Can we add an example for this sense?)

Usage notes

This spelling was rare until 1950s, increasingly popular since then, possibly influenced by spread of Dunkin' Donuts (founded 1950).

Translations

References

Anagrams

• Tondu

Cebuano

Etymology

Borrowed from English.

Noun

donut

1. a doughnut; a deep-fried piece of dough or batter

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English donut, from older doughnut.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?do?.n?t/
• Hyphenation: do?nut

Noun

donut m (plural donuts, diminutive donutje n)

1. A doughnut, a donut.

Related terms

• deeg
• noot

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English.

Pronunciation

Noun

donut m (plural donuts)

1. doughnut (deep-fried piece of dough or batter)

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• dónute

Etymology

Borrowed from English.

Pronunciation

Noun

donut m (plural donuts)

1. doughnut (deep-fried piece of dough or batter)

   Synonym: (Brazil) rosquinha

Spanish

Noun

donut m (plural donuts)

1. Alternative form of dónut (“donut, doughnut”)

English

Etymology 1

Noun

donat (plural donats)

1. A rank in some knightly orders.

Etymology 2

From Donatus, a famous grammarian.

Alternative forms

• donet

Noun

donat (plural donats)

1. (obsolete) A grammar; a primer.
   • (Can we find and add a quotation of Piers Plowman to this entry?)

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Valencian) IPA^(key): /do?nat/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /du?nat/
• Rhymes: -at

Verb

donat m (feminine donada, masculine plural donats, feminine plural donades)

1. past participle of donar

Indonesian

Etymology

From English donut, an alteration of doughnut.

Pronunciation

Noun

donat (first-person possessive donatku, second-person possessive donatmu, third-person possessive donatnya)

1. doughnut

Latin

Verb

d?nat

1. third-person singular present active indicative of d?n?

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [do?nat]

Verb

donat

1. past participle of dona

Swedish

Verb

donat

1. supine of dona.

Anagrams

• tonad

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from English doughnut.

Noun

donat

1. doughnut