doughnut

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈdəʊnʌt/
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• Canada, General-American: /ˈdoʊ(ˌ)nʌt/
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• General-American: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
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• rhymes with -əʊnʌt
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• homophone: donut
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• CMU ARPABET: D OW1 N AH2 T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From dough + nut, 1809 because originally small, nut-sized balls of fried dough, or, more likely, from nut in the earlier sense of "small rounded cake or cookie", with the toroidal shape becoming common in the twentieth century. First attested in Knickerbocker’s History of New York, by Washington Irving, 1809.

160 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: doughnut — deep-fried piece of dough or batter
• Afrikaans: donut — deep-fried piece of dough or batter
• Afrikaans: oliebol — deep-fried piece of dough or batter
• Albanian: donut — deep-fried piece of dough or batter
• Albanian: krofnë — deep-fried piece of dough or batter
• Albanian: petull — deep-fried piece of dough or batter
• Arabic: دُونَات (dūnāt) — deep-fried piece of dough or batter
• Arabic: شِفَنْج (šifanj) — deep-fried piece of dough or batter
• Arabic: مَبْرُومَة (mabrūma) — deep-fried piece of dough or batter
• Arabic: دونت (dōnat) — deep-fried piece of dough or batter
• Armenian: փքաբլիթ (pʻkʻablitʻ) — deep-fried piece of dough or batter
• Armenian: պոնչիկ (pončʻik) — deep-fried piece of dough or batter
• Azerbaijani: pişi — deep-fried piece of dough or batter
• Azerbaijani: əyirdək — deep-fried piece of dough or batter
• Azerbaijani: ponçik — deep-fried piece of dough or batter
• Belarusian: по́нчык (pónčyk) — deep-fried piece of dough or batter
• Bengali: ডোনাট (ḍōnaṭ) — deep-fried piece of dough or batter
• Bulgarian: по́ничка (pónička) — deep-fried piece of dough or batter
• Bulgarian: до́нът (dónǎt) — deep-fried piece of dough or batter
• Burmese: ဒိုးနပ် (dui:nap) — deep-fried piece of dough or batter
• Catalan: dònut — deep-fried piece of dough or batter
• Chinese Cantonese: 冬甩 — deep-fried piece of dough or batter
• Chinese Cantonese: 多甩 (do1 lat1) — deep-fried piece of dough or batter
• Chinese Cantonese: 甜甜圈 (tim4 tim4 hyun1) — deep-fried piece of dough or batter
• Chinese Cantonese: 沙翁 (saa1 jung1) — deep-fried piece of dough or batter
• Chinese Mandarin: 甜甜圈 (tiántiánquān) — deep-fried piece of dough or batter
• Chinese Mandarin: 沙翁 (shāwēng) — deep-fried piece of dough or batter
• Chinese Mandarin: 多拿滋 (duōnázī) — deep-fried piece of dough or batter
• Chinese Mandarin: 炸面圈 (zhámiànquān) — deep-fried piece of dough or batter
• Czech: kobliha — deep-fried piece of dough or batter
• Czech: americká kobliha — deep-fried piece of dough or batter
• Danish: donut — deep-fried piece of dough or batter
• Danish: munkering — deep-fried piece of dough or batter
• Danish: berliner — deep-fried piece of dough or batter
• Dutch: donut — deep-fried piece of dough or batter
• Dutch: berlinerbol — deep-fried piece of dough or batter
• Esperanto: benjeto — deep-fried piece of dough or batter
• Esperanto: ringa benjeto — deep-fried piece of dough or batter
• Estonian: sõõrik — deep-fried piece of dough or batter
• Finnish: munkki — deep-fried piece of dough or batter
• French: beignet — deep-fried piece of dough or batter
• French: donut — deep-fried piece of dough or batter
• French: rosquille — deep-fried piece of dough or batter
• Galician: rosquilla — deep-fried piece of dough or batter
• Georgian: ფუნჩულა (punčula) — deep-fried piece of dough or batter
• Georgian: პონჩიკი (ṗončiḳi) — deep-fried piece of dough or batter
• German: Krapfen (ellipsoidal) — deep-fried piece of dough or batter
• German: Donut — deep-fried piece of dough or batter
• German: Berliner — deep-fried piece of dough or batter
• German: Pfannkuchen — deep-fried piece of dough or batter
• Greek: λουκουμάς (loukoumás) — deep-fried piece of dough or batter
• Greek: ντόνατ (ntónat) — deep-fried piece of dough or batter
• Ancient Greek: ἐγκρίς (enkrís) — deep-fried piece of dough or batter
• Haitian Creole: bèy — deep-fried piece of dough or batter
• Hebrew: סופגנייה — deep-fried piece of dough or batter
• Hebrew: סֻפְגָּנִיָּה (sufganiyá) — deep-fried piece of dough or batter
• Hebrew: דוֹנַט (dónat) — deep-fried piece of dough or batter
• Hebrew: דונאט (dónat) — deep-fried piece of dough or batter
• Hindi: डोनट (ḍonaṭ) — deep-fried piece of dough or batter
• Hungarian: fánk — deep-fried piece of dough or batter
• Hungarian: farsangi fánk — deep-fried piece of dough or batter
• Hungarian: gyűrűfánk — deep-fried piece of dough or batter
• Icelandic: kleinuhringur — deep-fried piece of dough or batter
• Indonesian: donat — deep-fried piece of dough or batter
• Inupiaq: uqsrukuaqtaq — deep-fried piece of dough or batter
• Irish: taoschnó — deep-fried piece of dough or batter
• Italian: ciambella — deep-fried piece of dough or batter
• Japanese: ドーナツ (dōnatsu) — deep-fried piece of dough or batter
• Japanese: ドーナッツ (dōnattsu) — deep-fried piece of dough or batter
• Kazakh: бүйрекше бәліш (büirekşe bälış) — deep-fried piece of dough or batter
• Kazakh: пончик (ponçik) — deep-fried piece of dough or batter
• Khmer: ដូណាត់ (dounat) — deep-fried piece of dough or batter
• Korean: 도넛 (doneot) — deep-fried piece of dough or batter
• Korean: 가락지빵 (garakjippang) — deep-fried piece of dough or batter
• Kyrgyz: пончик (poncik) — deep-fried piece of dough or batter
• Lakota: aǧúyabskuyagmigma — deep-fried piece of dough or batter
• Lao: ໂດນັດ (dō nat) — deep-fried piece of dough or batter
• Latvian: virtulis — deep-fried piece of dough or batter
• Lithuanian: spurga — deep-fried piece of dough or batter
• Macedonian: кро́фна (krófna) — deep-fried piece of dough or batter
• Malay: donat — deep-fried piece of dough or batter
• Manx: cro teayst — deep-fried piece of dough or batter
• Manx: fainey teayst — deep-fried piece of dough or batter
• Māori: tōnati — deep-fried piece of dough or batter
• Marathi: डोनट (ḍonaṭ) — deep-fried piece of dough or batter
• Marshallese: tonaaj — deep-fried piece of dough or batter
• Marshallese: to̧nōt — deep-fried piece of dough or batter
• Mongolian: хайрсан боов (xajrsan boov) — deep-fried piece of dough or batter
• Navajo: bááh łikaní bigháhoodzání — deep-fried piece of dough or batter
• Norman: miclotte — deep-fried piece of dough or batter
• Norman: godenitchette — deep-fried piece of dough or batter
• Norwegian Bokmål: smultring — deep-fried piece of dough or batter
• Norwegian Bokmål: berlinerbolle — deep-fried piece of dough or batter
• Norwegian Nynorsk: smultring — deep-fried piece of dough or batter
• Norwegian Nynorsk: berlinerbolle — deep-fried piece of dough or batter
• Iranian Persian: دونات (donât) — deep-fried piece of dough or batter
• Polish: pączek — deep-fried piece of dough or batter
• Polish: oponka — deep-fried piece of dough or batter
• Polish: donut — deep-fried piece of dough or batter
• Portuguese: dónute — deep-fried piece of dough or batter
• Portuguese: rosquinha — deep-fried piece of dough or batter
• Romanian: gogoașă — deep-fried piece of dough or batter
• Russian: по́нчик (pónčik) — deep-fried piece of dough or batter
• Russian: пы́шка (pýška) — deep-fried piece of dough or batter
• Russian: пампу́шка (pampúška) — deep-fried piece of dough or batter
• Russian: пампу́ха (pampúxa) — deep-fried piece of dough or batter
• Serbo-Croatian: кра̀фна — deep-fried piece of dough or batter
• Serbo-Croatian: кро́фна — deep-fried piece of dough or batter
• Serbo-Croatian: по̀кладница — deep-fried piece of dough or batter
• Serbo-Croatian: kràfna — deep-fried piece of dough or batter
• Serbo-Croatian: krófna — deep-fried piece of dough or batter
• Serbo-Croatian: pòkladnica — deep-fried piece of dough or batter
• Silesian: krepel — deep-fried piece of dough or batter
• Slovak: pampúch — deep-fried piece of dough or batter
• Slovak: placka — deep-fried piece of dough or batter
• Slovak: americká šiška — deep-fried piece of dough or batter
• Slovene: krof — deep-fried piece of dough or batter
• Spanish: dona — deep-fried piece of dough or batter
• Spanish: rosquilla — deep-fried piece of dough or batter
• Spanish: anillo — deep-fried piece of dough or batter
• Spanish: dónut — deep-fried piece of dough or batter
• Spanish: donut — deep-fried piece of dough or batter
• Swahili: andazi — deep-fried piece of dough or batter
• Swedish: munk — deep-fried piece of dough or batter
• Swedish: donut — deep-fried piece of dough or batter
• Swedish: flottyrmunk — deep-fried piece of dough or batter
• Swedish: flottyrring — deep-fried piece of dough or batter
• Tagalog: donat — deep-fried piece of dough or batter
• Tagalog: bicho-bicho — deep-fried piece of dough or batter
• Tagalog: shakoy — deep-fried piece of dough or batter
• Tausug: dunat — deep-fried piece of dough or batter
• Thai: โดนัท (doo-nát) — deep-fried piece of dough or batter
• Turkish: donut — deep-fried piece of dough or batter
• Turkish: lokma — deep-fried piece of dough or batter
• Turkmen: ponçik — deep-fried piece of dough or batter
• Ukrainian: по́нчик (pónčyk) — deep-fried piece of dough or batter
• Ukrainian: пампу́шка (pampúška) — deep-fried piece of dough or batter
• Urdu: ڈونَٹ (ḍonaṭ) — deep-fried piece of dough or batter
• Uyghur: دونات (donat) — deep-fried piece of dough or batter
• Uzbek: ponchik — deep-fried piece of dough or batter
• Vietnamese: bánh rán — deep-fried piece of dough or batter
• Welsh: toesen — deep-fried piece of dough or batter
• Yiddish: פּאָנטשקע (pontshke) — deep-fried piece of dough or batter
• Yiddish: פּאָנטשיק (pontshik) — deep-fried piece of dough or batter
• Yiddish: דאָנאַט (donat) — deep-fried piece of dough or batter
• Finnish: torus — anything in the shape of a torus
• Finnish: rengas — anything in the shape of a torus
• Polish: obwarzanek — anything in the shape of a torus
• Russian: тор (tor) — anything in the shape of a torus
• Russian: кольцо́ (kolʹcó) — anything in the shape of a torus
• Swahili: mandazi — anything in the shape of a torus
• Polish: ślad poślizgu w kształcie obwarzanka — peel-out or skid-mark in the shape of a doughnut
• Swahili: mandazi — peel-out or skid-mark in the shape of a doughnut
• Finnish: vararengas — tire
• German: Reifen — tire
• Polish: mała opona zapasowa — tire
• Russian: ка́мера (kámera) — tire
• Russian: покры́шка (pokrýška) — tire
• Swahili: mandazi — tire
• Turkish: lastik — tire