truffle

English

truffels from Mont Ventoux

The word in the Germanic languages (except Icelandic) is a loanword from French truffe (previously trufle)[1] (whence Danish and Norwegian trøffel, Swedish tryffel, German Trüffel)[2], which originates from Old Occitan.[3]

truffle (plural truffles)

Any of various edible fungi, of the genus Tuber, that grow in the soil in southern Europe; the earthnut.
Synonym: earthnut
(by analogy) Ellipsis of chocolate truffle (“creamy chocolate confection, in the form of a ball, covered with cocoa powder”)

tuber

Arabic: كَمْأَة‎ f (kamʾa)
North Levantine Arabic: كماية‎ f
Armenian: գետնասունկ (hy) (getnasunk), գերերի (hy) (gereri), բողբուճ (hy) (bołbuč), հողկիթ (hołkitʿ), դոմբալա (hy) (dombala)
Catalan: tòfona (ca)
Chinese:
Cantonese: 塊菌 (fāi^³kuën^²)

Mandarin: 猪拱菌 (zh) (zhūgǒngjùn)
Crimean Tatar: domalan
Czech: lanýž (cs)
Dutch: truffel (nl)
Faroese: trøfla f
Finnish: tryffeli (fi)
French: truffe (fr) f
German: Trüffel (de) f
Greek: ύτανο n (ýtano), τρούφα (el) f (troúfa)
Icelandic: jarðkeppur
Irish: strufal m

chocolate truffle — see chocolate truffle

Etymology in Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm: im Laufe des 18. Jahrhunderts entlehnt aus Französischem neben gewöhnlichem truffe stehendem truffle
Etymology in ODS: "eng. truffle; fra fr. trufle (truffe)"
Le Robert pour tous, Dictionnaire de la langue française, Janvier 2004, p. 1144, truffe

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