different between nougat vs oreo

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

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /o??eo/, [o??e.o]

Etymology 1

Deverbal of orear, from Latin aura (“air”).

Noun

oreo m (plural oreos)

1. breeze
2. fresh air

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

oreo

1. First-person singular (yo) present indicative form of orear.

Further reading

• “oreo” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.