doughnut

Etymology
From, 1809 because originally small, nut-sized balls of fried dough, or, more likely, from nut in the earlier sense of "small rounded cake or cookie", with the toroidal shape becoming common in the twentieth century. First attested in Knickerbocker’s History of New York, by, 1809.

Noun



 * 1) A deep-fried piece of dough or batter, usually mixed with various sweeteners and flavors, often made in a toroidal or ellipsoidal shape flattened sphere shape filled with jelly/jam, custard, or cream.
 * 2) * 2018, Karen Scott, Margaret Webb, Clare Kostelnick, Long-Term Caring: Residential, Home and Community Aged Care, 4th Edition, Australia and New Zealand Edition, Elsevier Australia, page 227,
 * The prostate gland lies just below the bladder and is shaped like a doughnut.
 * 1) Anything in the shape of a torus:
 * 2)  A circular life raft.
 * 3)  A toroidal vacuum chamber.
 * 4)  A peel-out or skid mark in the shape of a circle; a 360-degree skid.
 * 5) A spare car tyre, usually stored in the boot, that is smaller than a full-sized tyre and is only intended for temporary use.
 * 6) A kind of tyre for an airplane.
 * 7) * 1975, Flight International (volume 107, part 2)
 * The advantage of the doughnuts was that they spread the weight of the aeroplane over a much larger area of ground, causing less damage to grass, and making them less prone to bogging down in wet conditions.
 * 1)  A vulva;  a woman's virginity.
 * 2)  A foolish or stupid person; an idiot.
 * Nice going, you doughnut!
 * 1) A toroidal cushion typically used by hemorrhoid patients.
 * 2)  A whole note.
 * 1)  A foolish or stupid person; an idiot.
 * Nice going, you doughnut!
 * 1) A toroidal cushion typically used by hemorrhoid patients.
 * 2)  A whole note.
 * 1)  A foolish or stupid person; an idiot.
 * Nice going, you doughnut!
 * 1) A toroidal cushion typically used by hemorrhoid patients.
 * 2)  A whole note.
 * 1) A toroidal cushion typically used by hemorrhoid patients.
 * 2)  A whole note.

Translations

 * Afrikaans: doughnut, donut, oliebol
 * Albanian: donut
 * Arabic: دُونَات, شِفَنْج
 * Hijazi Arabic: دونت
 * Armenian: ,
 * Azerbaijani: pişi, əyirdək
 * Belarusian: по́нчык
 * Bengali: ডোনাট
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Burmese: ဒိုးနပ်
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 冬甩, 多甩, 甜甜圈, 沙翁
 * Mandarin:, 沙翁 , 多拿滋
 * Czech:
 * Danish: donut, munkering,  (with filling)
 * Dutch:, (with filling)
 * Esperanto: benjeto, ringa benjeto
 * Estonian: sõõrik
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * Galician: rosquilla
 * Georgian: ფუნჩულა, პონჩიკი
 * German: ellipsoidal,, ,
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: ἐγκρίς
 * Haitian Creole: bèy
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: डोनट
 * Hungarian:, farsangi fánk, gyűrűfánk
 * Icelandic:
 * Indonesian:
 * Inupiaq: uqsrukuaqtaq
 * Irish: taoschnó
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese: ,
 * Kazakh: бүйрекше бәліш
 * Korean: ,
 * Latvian: virtulis
 * Lithuanian: spurga
 * Macedonian: кро́фна
 * Malay: donat
 * Manx: cro teayst, fainey teayst
 * Maori: tōnati
 * Marshallese: tonaaj, to̧nōt
 * Navajo: bááh łikaní bigháhoodzání
 * Norman: miclotte, godenitchette
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: smultring, berlinerbolle
 * Nynorsk: smultring, berlinerbolle
 * Persian: دونات
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:, , ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: крафна
 * Roman:
 * Silesian: krepel
 * Slovak: pampúch, placka
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:, rosquilla, , dónut
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:, , flottyrmunk, flottyrring
 * Tagalog: donat, bicho-bicho, shakoy
 * Tausug: dunat
 * Thai:
 * Turkish: donut
 * Ukrainian: по́нчик, пампу́шка
 * Urdu: ڈونٹ
 * Uzbek: ponchik
 * Vietnamese:
 * Welsh: toesen
 * Yiddish: פּאָנטשקע, פּאָנטשיק, דאָנאַט


 * Finnish: ,
 * Polish:
 * Russian: ,
 * Swahili:


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 * Finnish:
 * German:
 * Russian: ,
 * Swahili:
 * Turkish:

Verb

 * 1) Encircle.