локум

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish لوقوم (lokum), from a vulgar form of Ottoman Turkish راحت الحلقوم (râhatü'l-hulkûm), from Arabic رَاحَة الْحُلْقُوم (rāḥat al-ḥulqūm).

• IPA^(key): [ɫoˈkum]
• Rhymes: -um
• Hyphenation^(key): ло‧кум

локу́м • (lokúm) m (relational adjective локу́мен, diminutive локу́мче)

1. (uncountable) Turkish delight, locoum
2. (countable) a piece of Turkish delight

• локумджи́я (lokumdžíja)

• “локум”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2014
• “локум”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Chitanka, 2010
• Georgiev, Vladimir I., editor (1986), “локум”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volumes 3 (крес¹ – мѝнго¹), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Pubg. House, page 463

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish لوقوم (lokum), لقوم (lokum), from Ottoman Turkish راحت الحلقوم (râhatü'l-hulkûm), itself from Arabic رَاحَة الْحُلْقُوم (rāḥat al-ḥulqūm).

• IPA^(key): [ˈɫɔkum]

локум • (lokum) m

1. Turkish delight

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish لوقوم (lokum), لقوم (lokum).

• IPA^(key): /lǒkum/
• Hyphenation: ло‧кум

ло̀кум m (Latin spelling lòkum)

1. Turkish delight

• “локум” in Hrvatski jezični portal