kuchen

See also: Kuchen, Küchen, and küchen-

English

Marmorkuchen (marble cake)

Etymology

Borrowed from German Kuchen. Doublet of quiche.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkukən/

Noun

kuchen (countable and uncountable, plural kuchens)

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.

   • 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.

   • 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.

   • 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.

   • 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.

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch cuchen, coechen, cochen, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *kuh- (“to cough”), likely of onomatopoeic origin. Akin to English cough, German keuchen.

Pronunciation

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Verb

kuchen

1. to give out a dry and brief cough

Conjugation

Conjugation of kuchen (weak)
infinitive	kuchen
past singular	kuchte
past participle	gekucht
infinitive	kuchen
gerund	kuchen n
	present tense	past tense
1st person singular	kuch	kuchte
2nd person sing. (jij)	kucht, kuch2	kuchte
2nd person sing. (u)	kucht	kuchte
2nd person sing. (gij)	kucht	kuchte
3rd person singular	kucht	kuchte
plural	kuchen	kuchten
subjunctive sing.1	kuche	kuchte
subjunctive plur.1	kuchen	kuchten
imperative sing.	kuch
imperative plur.1	kucht
participles	kuchend	gekucht
1) Archaic. 2) In case of inversion.

Noun

kuchen

1. plural of kuch

Spanish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from German Kuchen. Doublet of quiche.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkuxen/ [ˈku.xẽn]
• Rhymes: -uxen

Noun

kuchen m (plural kúchenes)

1. cake, especially made with fruit

Usage notes

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.