karamel

Borrowed from English caramel, borrowed from French caramel, from Spanish caramelo, from Late Latin calamellus, diminutive of calamus (“reed”), or alternatively from Medieval Latin cannamellis, which is either a compound of canna + mellis or possibly a borrowing from Arabic. Doublet of karmelitos.

• Hyphenation: ka‧ra‧mel

karamel

1. a smooth, chewy, sticky confection made by heating sugar and other ingredients until the sugars polymerize and become sticky
2. a (sometimes hardened) piece of this confection
3. a yellow-brown color, like that of caramel

karamel

1. having the color of caramel

Borrowed from French caramel.

karamel m inan

1. caramel (confection)

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

• karamel in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• karamel in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

From French caramel, from Spanish caramelo.

karamel c (singular definite karamellen, plural indefinite karameller)

1. caramel
2. toffee

• “karamel” in Den Danske Ordbog

From French caramel, from Spanish caramelo, from Latin canamella (“sugar cane”).

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karamel m (plural karamels, diminutive karamelletje n)

1. the sweet mixture caramel, used for confection
2. (plural also karamellen) a piece (usually block-shaped) of candy made with it

• karameliseren, karamelizeren
• karamellenvers n

• → Papiamentu: karamèl, karamèlè

• M. J. Koenen & J. Endepols, Verklarend Handwoordenboek der Nederlandse Taal (tevens Vreemde-woordentolk), Groningen, Wolters-Noordhoff, 1969 (26th edition) [Dutch dictionary in Dutch]

Borrowed from French caramel.

• IPA^(key): [käɾäˈmæl], [-ˈmɛl]
• Hyphenation: ka‧ra‧mel

karamel (definite accusative karameli, plural karameller)

1. caramel

karamelleşmek

• “karamel”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
• Ayverdi, İlhan (2010) “karamel”, in Misalli Büyük Türkçe Sözlük, a reviewed and expanded single-volume edition, Istanbul: Kubbealtı Neşriyatı
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “karamel”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 3, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2363

karamel (plural karamellar)

1. caramel