lollipop

English

WOTD – 1 August 2008

A child licking a lollipop.

Multiple theories abound. One is that it is borrowed from Angloromani lollipobbul (“candy apple”).

lollipop (plural lollipops)

An item of confectionery consisting of a piece of candy/sweet attached to a stick.

confectionery on a stick

Korean: 막대사탕 (ko) (makdaesatang)
Latvian: ledenes m
Luxembourgish: Lutsch f
Macedonian: лижавче n (lížavče)
Marathi: लॉलीपॉप m (lǒlīpǒpa)
Norman: chucre d'orge m
Persian: آبنبات‌چوبی‎ (âbnabât-čubi)
Polish: lizak (pl) m
Portuguese: pirulito (pt) m
Romanian: acadea (ro) f
Russian: ледене́ц (ru) m (ledenéc), ледене́ц на па́лочке m (ledenéc na páločke)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: лизалица f, лизаљка f

Roman: lizalica (sh) f, lizaljka f
Spanish: piruleta f, chupachús m (Spain), chupeta f (Colombia, Venezuela), chupete (es) m (Bolivia, Ecuador, Peru), chupetín (es) m (Argentina, Uruguay), colombina (es) f (Colombia), cóyac m (Chile, colloquial), paleta de caramelo f (Mexico, Dominican Republic, Panama, Puerto Rico), pirulí (es) m (Spain)
Swedish: klubba (sv) c, slickepinne (sv) c
Tagalog: lolipap
Thai: อมยิ้ม (om-yím)
Turkish: lolipop
Welsh: lolipop m
Yiddish: לעקערל‎ n (lekerl)

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