"beignet" meaning in French

See beignet in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /bɛ.ɲɛ/, /be.ɲɛ/ Audio: LL-Q150 (fra)-Mecanautes-beignet.wav Forms: beignets [plural]
Etymology: 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 *bungjo (“lump, bump, swelling”), from Proto-Germanic *bungô, *bunkô (“lump, heap, crowd”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰenǵʰ- (“thick, dense, fat”). Cognate with Old High German bungo (“swelling, tuber”) (German Bunge), Dutch bonk (“lump, clump”), Gaulish *bunia, Scottish Gaelic bonnach (“cake, biscuit”). Also related to bun, bunk, bunch, bunion. Equivalent to beigne + -et. Etymology templates: {{glossary|Inherited}} Inherited, {{inh|fr|frm|bignet|||g=|g2=|g3=|id=|lit=|nocat=|pos=|sc=|sort=|tr=|ts=}} Middle French bignet, {{inh+|fr|frm|bignet}} Inherited from Middle French bignet, {{inh|fr|fro|bignet||fried dough enveloping a food substance}} Old French bignet (“fried dough enveloping a food substance”), {{m|fro|bigne}} bigne, {{m|fro|bugne}} bugne, {{m|fro|buyne||lump, swelling}} buyne (“lump, swelling”), {{der|fr|frk|*bungjo||lump, bump, swelling}} Frankish *bungjo (“lump, bump, swelling”), {{der|fr|gem-pro|*bungô}} Proto-Germanic *bungô, {{m|gem-pro|*bunkô||lump, heap, crowd}} *bunkô (“lump, heap, crowd”), {{der|fr|ine-pro|*bʰenǵʰ-||thick, dense, fat}} Proto-Indo-European *bʰenǵʰ- (“thick, dense, fat”), {{cog|goh|bungo||swelling, tuber}} Old High German bungo (“swelling, tuber”), {{cog|de|Bunge}} German Bunge, {{cog|nl|bonk||lump, clump}} Dutch bonk (“lump, clump”), {{cog|cel-gau|*bunia}} Gaulish *bunia, {{cog|gd|bonnach||cake, biscuit}} Scottish Gaelic bonnach (“cake, biscuit”), {{l|en|bun}} bun, {{l|en|bunk}} bunk, {{l|en|bunch}} bunch, {{l|en|bunion}} bunion, {{af|fr|beigne|-et}} beigne + -et Head templates: {{fr-noun|m}} beignet m (plural beignets)
  1. beignet (fritter filled with fruit etc) Tags: masculine
    Sense id: en-beignet-fr-noun-6um3MfpQ
  2. doughnut Tags: masculine
    Sense id: en-beignet-fr-noun-tvj~d6R4 Categories (other): French entries with incorrect language header, French terms suffixed with -et Disambiguation of French entries with incorrect language header: 23 77 Disambiguation of French terms suffixed with -et: 30 70

Inflected forms

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}

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