different between nougat vs marzipan

English

Etymology

From French nougat, from Occitan nogat, from noga (“nut”), from Latin nux (“nut”). Compare Spanish nuégado.

Pronunciation

• (General Australian, General New Zealand) IPA^(key): /?nu????/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /?n???t/, /?nu????/
• (US, Canada) enPR: no?o?gu?t IPA^(key): /?nu??t/

Noun

nougat (countable and uncountable, plural nougats)

1. A confection of honey or sugar and roasted nuts, often with other ingredients.

Translations

See also

• turrón

Further reading

• nougat on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• toguna

Danish

Noun

nougat

1. brown nougat, Viennese nougat

See also

• fransk nougat (“white nougat”)

Finnish

Alternative forms

• nugaa

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?nu???/, [?nu???]

Noun

nougat

1. nougat

Usage notes

As the inflection looks awkward, it may sometimes be advisable to use the Finnicized form nugaa (“nougat”).

Declension

Anagrams

• guanot

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nu.?a/

Noun

nougat m (plural nougats)

1. nougat

Further reading

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

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• nugat

Etymology

From French nougat.

Noun

nougat m (definite singular nougaten, indefinite plural nougater, definite plural nougatene)

1. nougat

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• nugat

Etymology

From French nougat.

Noun

nougat m (definite singular nougaten, indefinite plural nougatar, definite plural nougatane)

1. nougat

Portuguese

Noun

nougat m (plural nougats)

1. nougat (a confection of honey and roasted nuts)

   Synonym: nogado

Swedish

Noun

nougat ?

1. nougat

English

Alternative forms

• marchpane (obsolete)

Etymology

Borrowed from German Marzipan, from Italian marzapane, Venetian marzapane. Believed to be, with influence from pane (“bread”), derived from Arabic ??????????? (mar?ab?n, “spice box”) which comes from the name of a Burmese port known for its spice exports, Martaban, now called in Burmese ?????? (muthta.ma.).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?m??z??pæn/, /?m??z?pæn/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?m??z?pæn/, /?m??ts?p?n/, /?m??ts?pæn/
• Rhymes: -æn

Noun

marzipan (usually uncountable, plural marzipans)

1. A confection made from a paste of almonds, sugar and egg white as a binder.

Coordinate terms

• almond paste
• Christmas cake
• simnel cake

Derived terms

• marzipan layer
• persipan

Translations

Verb

marzipan (third-person singular simple present marzipans, present participle marzipanning, simple past and past participle marzipanned)

1. (transitive) To cover with marzipan.