Turkish delight

See also: turkish delight

English

Rosewater-flavored Turkish delight

Etymology

Allegedly coined by an English traveller who could not pronounce the Ottoman Turkish name راحت الحلقوم (râhatü'l-hulkûm), 18th c.[1]

Noun

Turkish delight (usually uncountable, plural Turkish delights)

A soft, sticky confection made from starch and sugar with various flavourings.
Synonyms: locoum, loukoumi, lumps of delight

Translations

confection

Albanian: llokum (sq) m, rahat llokum m
Arabic: رَاحَة الْحُلْقُوم f (rāḥat al-ḥulqūm)
Hijazi Arabic: حَلْقوم m or f (ḥalgūm)
Armenian: լոխում (hy) (loxum), ռահատ լոխում (ṙahat loxum)
Azerbaijani: loxum, lokum
Belarusian: раха́т-луку́м m (raxát-lukúm), луку́м m (lukúm)
Bulgarian: локу́м m (lokúm)
Catalan: delícies turques f pl
Chinese:
Mandarin: 土耳其软糖 (Tǔ'ěrqí ruǎntáng), 土耳其快樂糖／土耳其快乐糖 (Tǔ'ěrqí kuàilètáng)
Czech: turecký med m, rahat m, lokum m, turecké potěšení n
Danish: turkish delight c
Dutch: Turks fruit n
Esperanto: lukumo
Finnish: lokum (fi)
French: loukoum (fr) m, rahat-loukoum (fr) m
Georgian: რაჰათლუკუმი (rahatluḳumi)
German: Lokum n
Greek: λουκούμι (el) n (loukoúmi)
Hebrew: רַחַת לוֹקוּם (he) (rakhat lokum)
Hindi: टर्किश डिलाइट (ṭarkiś ḍilāiṭ)
Hungarian: szultánkenyér (hu), török csemege, lokum (hu)
Italian: lokum m
Japanese: ロクム (rokumu), ターキッシュ・ディライト (tākisshu-diraito)
Korean: 로쿰 (rokum), 터키시 딜라이트 (teokisi dillaiteu)
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: loqim (ku), lokim
Kyrgyz: рахат-лукум (rahat-lukum)
Latin: lucumium n
Lithuanian: lukumas m
Macedonian: локум m (lokum)
Malay: halwa maskat
Ottoman Turkish: راحت الحلقوم (râhatü'l-hulkûm)
Persian: راحت‌الحلقوم (râhat-ol-holqum), باسلق (fa) (bâsloq)
Polish: rachatłukum (pl) n
Portuguese: manjar turco m, delícia turca f
Romanian: rahat (ro) n, rahat turcesc n
Russian: рахат-луку́м (ru) m (raxat-lukúm), луку́м (ru) m (lukúm)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: ра́тлук m, ра̀хат-ло̀кум m, ло̀кум m

Roman: rátluk (sh) m, ràhat-lòkum (sh) m, lòkum (sh) m
Slovene: ratluk m, turška slaščica f, lokum m
Spanish: lokum m, delicias turcas f pl
Swedish: marmeladkonfekt c
Turkish: lokum (tr), rahat-lokum
Ukrainian: раха́т-луку́м m (raxát-lukúm), луку́м m (lukúm)
Uzbek: rohat-luqum (uz)
Vietnamese: như rahat-loukoum

References

Victoria Combe (2003 May 3) “Sweet little history”, in The Telegraph‎, retrieved September 11, 2017