beignet (fritter filled with fruit etc) · doughnut
çekim: çoğul beignets
köken: Inherited from Middle French bignet, from Old French bignet (“fried dough enveloping a food substance”), a diminutive of bigne, bugne, buyne (“lump, swelling”), from Frankish *bungjō (“lump, bump, swelling”), from Proto-Germanic *bungô, *bunkô (“lump, heap, crowd”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰenǵʰ- (“thick, dense, fat”). Alternatively, from Gaulish *bunia. Cognate with Old High German bungo…
köken: From earlier madhuya /marhuya, from an unknown source. Possible etymologies include: * From Sanskrit माधुर्य (mādhurya, “sweetness”), from मधुर (madhura, “sweet”) + -य (-ya), according to Pardo de Tavera (1887). See also Malay madu. * From Mexican Spanish *marjuya, according to Panganiban (1973). The word however is unlikely to come from a native Mexican language, since many Indigenous languages…