Caramel

Etymology
Borrowed from, from , from , from , diminutive of (and therefore a ), or alternatively from , which is either a compound of  +  or possibly a borrowing from.

Pronunciation

 * and, , or ,

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.

Usage notes
Both the two syllable and the three syllable pronunciations are very common in all regions of the United States. The three-syllable pronunciation is more common than the two-syllable one in the South (excluding western Texas), northern New Jersey, eastern New York, and New England, while the two-syllable one is more common in other regions.

Translations

 * Afrikaans: karamel
 * Albanian: karamel,
 * Arabic: كَرَامِيل, كَرَامِيل
 * Armenian:
 * Azerbaijani: karamel
 * Basque: karamelu
 * Belarusian: караме́ль
 * Bulgarian: караме́л
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 牛奶糖, 焦糖
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Danish: karamel
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: karamelo
 * Estonian: karamell
 * Faroese: karamel
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Georgian: კარამელის
 * German:, Caramel
 * Greek:
 * Gujarati: કારામેલ
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: कैरमेल
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish: caramal
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ,


 * Korean: 캐러멜,
 * Lao: ເຂົ້າໜົມກະຮາແມນ
 * Latin: calamus
 * Latvian: karamele
 * Lithuanian: saldainis
 * Macedonian: карамел
 * Malay: karamel
 * Maltese: karamella
 * Manx: caramel
 * Maori: karamea
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: karamell
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian:
 * Scots: caramail
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:, ,
 * Swahili: karmeli
 * Swedish: tjinuski
 * Tagalog: karamelo, arnibal
 * Tamil: கேரமல்
 * Telugu: కార్మెల్
 * Thai: คาราเมล, น้ำตาลไหม้
 * Turkish: ,
 * Ukrainian:
 * Uzbek:
 * Vietnamese: kẹo caramen,
 * Welsh: caramel


 * Danish: karamel
 * Finnish:


 * German:, Karamellbonbon, Karamellzuckerl
 * Spanish:


 * Bulgarian: карамел
 * Finnish: keltaruskea


 * Italian:
 * Korean:

Adjective

 * 1) Of a yellow-brown color.
 * 2) * 2001, Nicole Sconiers, California Schemin': The Black Woman's Guide to Surviving in LA
 * Every time I saw this caramel cutie, she was working on a new proposal or business plan or flyer to promote herself and her event coordinating business.

Verb

 * 1)  To caramelize.
 * 2) * 1900, M. M. Mallock, The Economics of Modern Cookery: Or, A Younger Son's Cookery Book
 * To turn out, place the dish over the mould, and invert both together, when, if the caramelling has been complete, the pudding should slip out without any difficulty at all.

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Noun

 * 1)  sticky confection made by heating sugar
 * 2) candy, sweet

Etymology
Borrowed from, from , probably from , and therefore doublet of the inherited.

Noun

 * 1) caramel, fudge