honeycake

English

Alternative forms

• honey cake

Etymology

From honey +‎ cake.

Pronunciation

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Noun

honeycake (plural honeycakes)

1. A cake made with honey.

   Hyponym: (Jewish honey-sweetened cake, mainly associated with Rosh Hashanah) lekach

   • 1990, Robert Jordan, The Eye of the World‎^[1]:

     On their return to the hallway they found a tray by the top of the steps, and hot honeycakes filling the hall with their sweet aroma.

   • 2011 March 31, Beata Zatorska, “Around the world in 80 dishes No. 49: Elizabeth's honeycake with plum jam”, in The Independent‎^[2], archived from the original on 2022-07-07:

     My Aunt Elizabeth makes this deliciously dark and chewy chocolate honeycake with layers of tangy plum jam.

   • 2019 April 23, theintentionalmom.com‎^[3], archived from the original on 2023-03-28:

     I love recipes that include my Dutch heritage, and this honeycake is SO good.

Translations

a cake made with honey

• Finnish: hunajakakku (fi)
• French: pain d’épice (fr)
• Greek:

  Ancient: μελίπηκτον n (melípēkton), μελίτωμα n (melítōma)

• Hebrew: לֶקַח (he) m (leqaḥ)
• Latin: dulcia n pl
• Polish: miodownik (pl) m
• Russian: медови́к (ru) m (medovík)
• Ukrainian: медівни́к m (medivnýk)
• Yiddish: לעקעך m (lekekh), האָניק־לעקעך m (honik-lekekh)