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flan
(flæn)
Word forms: plural flans
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A flan is a food that has a base and sides of pastry or sponge cake. The base is filled with fruit or savoury food.
flan in British English
(flæn)
noun
1.
an open pastry or sponge tart filled with fruit or a savoury mixture
2.
a piece of metal ready to receive the die or stamp in the production of coins; shaped blank; planchet
Word origin
C19: from French, from Old French flaon, from Late Latin fladō flat cake, of Germanic originflan in American English
(flæn; flɑn)
noun
1.
a piece of shaped metal ready to be made into a coin by the stamp of a die; blank
2.
a.
a tart filled with custard, fruit, etc., or with a savory mixture
b.
a Spanish dessert of custard covered with a burnt-sugar syrup
Word origin
Fr < OFr flaon (> ME flawn, flan) < ML flado (gen. fladonis) < OHG, flat cake, akin to ME flathen: for IE base see flat1flan in American English
(flæn, flɑːn, for 1 also Spanish flɑːn, for 2 also French flɑː̃)
nounWord forms: plural or flans (flænz, flɑːnz, for 2 also flɑː̃), for 1: flanes (Spanish ˈflɑːnes)
1. Spanish Cookery
a dessert of sweetened egg custard with a caramel topping
2.
an open, tartlike pastry, the shell of which is baked in a bottomless band of metal (flan ring) on a baking sheet, removed from the ring and filled with custard, cream, fruit, etc
3.
a piece of metal shaped ready to form a coin, but not yet stamped by the die
4.
the metal of which a coin is made, as distinct from its design
Word origin
[1840–50; ‹ F; OF flaon ‹ LL fladōn-, s. of fladō ‹ Gmc; cf. OHG flado (G Fladen) flat cake]Image offlan
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British English: flan /flæn/ NOUN
A flan is a food that has a base and sides of pastry or sponge cake. The base is filled with fruit or savoury food.
- American English: flan
- Arabic: فَطِيرَةٌ فْلاَن
- Brazilian Portuguese: flã
- Chinese: 果馅饼
- Croatian: otvoren voćni kolač
- Czech: koláč
- Danish: tærte
- Dutch: vlaai
- European Spanish: tarta
- Finnish: torttu
- French: flan
- German: Kuchen
- Greek: τάρτα
- Italian: sformato
- Japanese: フラン 食べ物
- Korean: 위를 덮지 않은 파이
- Norwegian: tertebunn
- Polish: flan
- European Portuguese: flan
- Romanian: tartă
- Russian: открытый пирог
- Latin American Spanish: flan
- Swedish: mördegsbotten
- Thai: คัสตาร์ด
- Turkish: turta
- Ukrainian: відкритий пиріг із фруктами
- Vietnamese: bánh flan
Chinese translation of 'flan'
flan
(flæn)
n (c)
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果酱(醬)饼(餅)
(guǒjiàngbǐng) (个(個), gè)