caramel

Etymology
, from, from , dissimilated from , diminutive of (and a ). Alternatively from, which is a compound of +.

Pronunciation

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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.

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.
 * 1) A yellow-brown color, like that of caramel.
 * 1) A yellow-brown color, like that of caramel.

Translations

 * Afrikaans: karamel
 * Albanian: karamel,
 * Arabic: كَرَامِيل, كَرَامِيل
 * Armenian:
 * Azerbaijani: karamel
 * Basque: karamelu
 * Belarusian: караме́ль
 * Bulgarian:
 * 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:
 * Latvian: karamele
 * Lithuanian: saldainis
 * Macedonian: карамел
 * Malay:
 * Maltese: karamella
 * Manx: caramel
 * Maori: karamea
 * Marathi: शर्करारंजक, कॅरमेल
 * 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
 * Polish:
 * Spanish:


 * Bulgarian:
 * Finnish: keltaruskea
 * Italian:
 * Korean:

Adjective

 * 1) Of a yellow-brown color.

Verb

 * 1)  To caramelize.

Etymology
, from, from. .

Noun

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

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

Noun

 * , fudge

Etymology
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