English Explanatory Dictionary

caramel

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  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.
adj
  1. Of a yellow-brown color.
verb
  1. To caramelize.
name
  1. A surname from Occitan.

Pronunciation

kă′rə-məl -mĕl′ kär′məl /ˈkæ.ɹəˌmɛl/ /ˈkæ.ɹə.məl/ /ˈkæɹ.ə.mɛl/ /ˈkæɹ.ə.məl/ /ˈkɛɹ.ə.mɛl/ /ˈkɛɹ.ə.məl/ en-us-caramel.ogg /ˈkɑɹ.məl/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-caramel.wav /ˈkʲa.ɾə.mɛl/ /ˈkʲæ.ɾə.mɛl/ /ˈkʲa.ɹə.mɛl/ /ˈkʲæ.ɹə.mɛl/

Word forms

caramel caramels caromel carameling caramelling carameled caramelled

Etymology

Borrowed from French caramel, from Spanish caramelo, from Portuguese caramelo, dissimilated from Late Latin calamellus, diminutive of calamus (“reed”) (and a doublet of chalumeau and shawm). Alternatively from Medieval Latin cannamellis, which is a compound of canna + mellis.

Related words

fudge toffee

Derived words

ammonia caramel caramel apple caramel chicken caramelesque caramel fuel caramelicious caramelise caramelize caramelization caramellike caramelly caustic sulphite caramel creme caramel crème caramel sulphite ammonia caramel

Translations

Afrikaans: karamel Albanian: karamel Albanian: sheqerkë Arabic: كَرَامِيل Armenian: կարամել Azerbaijani: karamel Basque: karamelu Belarusian: караме́ль Bulgarian: караме́л Catalan: caramel Chinese Cantonese: 牛奶糖 Chinese Cantonese: 焦糖 Chinese Mandarin: 焦糖 Czech: karamel Danish: karamel Dutch: karamel Esperanto: karamelo Estonian: karamell Faroese: karamel Finnish: kinuski Finnish: karamelli French: caramel Georgian: კარამელის German: Karamell German: Caramel Greek: καραμέλλα Gujarati: કારામેલ Hebrew: קָרָמֶל Hindi: कैरमेल Hungarian: karamell Icelandic: karamella Ido: karamelo Indonesian: karamel Interlingua: caramello Irish: caramal Italian: caramello Japanese: キャラメル Japanese: カラメル Korean: 캐러멜 Korean: 캬라멜 Korean: 기름사탕 Lao: ເຂົ້າໜົມກະຮາແມນ Latin: calamus Latvian: karamele Lithuanian: saldainis Lithuanian: karamelė Macedonian: карамел Malay: karamel
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