candy

English Online Dictionary. What means candy‎? What does candy mean?

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: kăn'di, IPA^(key): /ˈkændi/
• Rhymes: -ændi

Etymology 1

From Middle English sugre candy, from Old French sucre candi (literally “candied sugar”), from Arabic سُكَّر قَنْدِي (sukkar qandī), from Arabic قَنْد (qand, “rock candy”), from Persian کند (kand) from Sanskrit खण्ड (khaṇḍa, “piece, fragment, candied sugar, dried molasses”), root खण्ड् (khaṇḍ, “to divide, break into pieces”), or from Proto-Dravidian *kaṇṭu; compare Tamil கண்டு (kaṇṭu, “hard candy”).

Noun

candy (countable and uncountable, plural candies)

1. (uncountable, chiefly Canada, US, Philippines) Edible, sweet-tasting confectionery containing sugar, or sometimes artificial sweeteners, and often flavored with fruit, chocolate, nuts, herbs and spices, or artificial flavors.
2. (countable, chiefly Canada, US, Philippines) A piece of confectionery of this kind.
3. (slang, chiefly US) crack cocaine.
4. (uncountable) An accessory (bracelet, etc.) made from pony beads, associated with the rave scene.

Alternative forms

• (rave accessory): kandi

Synonyms

• (confection): confectionery, sweets (British), lollies (Commonwealth), sugar candy (US)
• (piece of candy): sweet (British), lolly (Commonwealth)

Derived terms

Descendants

• → Cebuano: kendi
• → Hindi: कैंडी (kaiṇḍī)
• → Hopi: kyenti
• → Japanese: キャンディ (kyandi)
• → Kashubian: kindus (United States)
• → Korean: 캔디 (kaendi)
• → Tagalog: kendi

Translations

Verb

candy (third-person singular simple present candies, present participle candying, simple past and past participle candied)

1. (cooking) To cook in, or coat with, sugar syrup.
2. (intransitive) To have sugar crystals form in or on.

3. (intransitive) To be formed into candy; to solidify in a candylike form or mass.

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References

Etymology 2

From Marathi खंडी (khaṇḍī), from Sanskrit खण्डन (khaṇḍana), from root खण्ड् (khaṇḍ, “to divide, break into pieces”).

Alternative forms

• candee, candie, candil, kandy

Noun

candy (plural candies)

1. (obsolete) A unit of weight used in southern India, equal to twenty maunds, roughly equal to 500 pounds avoirdupois but varying locally.

Synonyms

• maunee

Translations

Anagrams

• Dancy, dancy