Etymology

Borrowed from GermanCategory:English terms borrowed from German#KUCHENCategory:English terms derived from German#KUCHEN Kuchen. Doublet of quicheCategory:English doublets#KUCHEN.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkukən/Category:English 2-syllable words#KUCHENCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#KUCHEN

Noun

kuchen (countable and uncountable, plural kuchens)Category:English lemmas#KUCHENCategory:English nouns#KUCHENCategory:English uncountable nouns#KUCHENCategory:English countable nouns#KUCHENCategory:English countable nouns#KUCHENCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#KUCHENCategory:Pages with entries#KUCHENCategory:Pages with 4 entries#KUCHEN

1. Any of several types of cake, typically eaten with coffee.
   • 1915, National Baker, volume 20, page 72:

     French pastry and bread, Vienna rolls and German kuchens will also be included in the list of articles placed on sale.

     Category:English terms with quotations#KUCHEN

   • 1920 November 9, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, Women in Love, New York, N.Y.: Privately printed [by Thomas Seltzer] for subscribers only, →OCLC:

     “Shall we go down and have coffee and Kuchen?” he asked.

     Category:English terms with quotations#KUCHEN

   • 1970, The Culinarian: Official Publication of the Chefs Association of the Pacific Coast, volume 15, page 24:

     Peanuts can be substituted for other nuts in the multitude of German kuchens, tortes and such goodies.

     Category:English terms with quotations#KUCHEN

   • 1989, Martin M. Pegler, editor, Successful Food Merchandising and Display, Retail Reporting Corporation, →ISBN, page 7, column 1:

     It is baguettes, bagels, braided challahs, big black Russian pumpernickels, light and fluffy German kuchens and Syrian pitas large or small.

     Category:English terms with quotations#KUCHEN

   • 2010 [1949], Marion Flexner, Out Of Kentucky Kitchens, University Press of Kentucky, →ISBN, page 226:

     We always make up two crusts at a time, lining two pans with the kuchen dough and keeping one in the icebox until ready to bake.

     Category:English terms with quotations#KUCHEN

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkʏ.xə(n)/Category:Dutch terms with IPA pronunciation#KUCHEN

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  Category:Dutch terms with audio pronunciation#KUCHEN
• Hyphenation: ku‧chen
• Rhymes: -ʏxənCategory:Rhymes:Dutch/ʏxən#KUCHENCategory:Rhymes:Dutch/ʏxən/2 syllables#KUCHEN

Etymology 1

From Middle DutchCategory:Dutch terms inherited from Middle Dutch#KUCHENCategory:Dutch terms derived from Middle Dutch#KUCHEN cuchen, coechen, cochen, ultimately from Proto-GermanicCategory:Dutch terms inherited from Proto-Germanic#KUCHENCategory:Dutch terms derived from Proto-Germanic#KUCHEN *kuh- (“to cough”), likely of onomatopoeicCategory:Dutch onomatopoeias#KUCHEN origin. Akin to English cough, German keuchen.

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

kuchenCategory:Middle English alternative forms#KUCHENCategory:Middle English entries with incorrect language header#KUCHENCategory:Pages with entries#KUCHENCategory:Pages with 4 entries#KUCHEN

1. (WorcestershireCategory:Worcestershire Middle English#KUCHEN) alternative form of kichene

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from GermanCategory:Spanish terms borrowed from German#KUCHENCategory:Spanish unadapted borrowings from German#KUCHENCategory:Spanish terms derived from German#KUCHEN Kuchen. Doublet of quicheCategory:Spanish doublets#KUCHEN.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkuxen/ [ˈku.xẽn]Category:Spanish 2-syllable words#KUCHENCategory:Spanish terms with IPA pronunciation#KUCHEN
• Rhymes: -uxenCategory:Rhymes:Spanish/uxen#KUCHENCategory:Rhymes:Spanish/uxen/2 syllables#KUCHEN
• Syllabification: ku‧chen

Noun

kuchen m (plural kúchenes)Category:Spanish lemmas#KUCHENCategory:Spanish nouns#KUCHENCategory:Spanish countable nouns#KUCHENCategory:Spanish terms spelled with K#KUCHENCategory:Spanish entries with incorrect language header#KUCHENCategory:Spanish masculine nouns#KUCHENCategory:Pages with entries#KUCHENCategory:Pages with 4 entries#KUCHEN

1. (ChileCategory:Chilean Spanish#KUCHEN) cake, especially made with fruit

Further reading

• “kuchen”, in Diccionario de americanismos [Dictionary of Americanisms] (in Spanish), Association of Academies of the Spanish Language [Spanish: Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española], 2010