dessert

See also desert, dêssèrt, and Dessert

English

Wikipedia

Etymology

From French dessert, from desservir (“disserve”), from dés- (“dis-”) and servir (“serve”), thus literally meaning “removal of what has been served”.

Note: It has been suggested (e.g. in "Glucose syrups: Technology and Applications" (Peter Hull, 2010)) that the word is derived from the name of Benjamin Delessert, the inventor of Beet sugar. The term predates him by at least a century, however.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /dɪˈzɜː(ɹ)t/, X-SAMPA: /dI"z3:t/
• (US) enPR: dĭ-zûrt, IPA: /dɪˈzɝt/, X-SAMPA: /dI"z3`t/

• Audio (US)

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• Homophone: desert (verb)

Noun

dessert (plural desserts)

1. A sweet confection served as the last course of a meal

Synonyms

• (sweet final course of a meal): afters (UK informal), pudding (UK), sweet (UK)

Translations

sweet confection served as the last course of a meal

• Arabic: حلوى (ar) (ḥalwā) f, حلويات (ar) (ḥalawiyyāt) f pl
• Armenian: աղանդեր (hy) (aġander), դեսերտ (hy) (desert)
• Azeri: desert (az), çərəz (az)
• Belarusian: дэсерт (be) (desjért) m
• Bulgarian: десерт (bg) (desért) m
• Catalan: postres (ca) f pl, darreries (ca) f pl
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 點心 (cmn), 点心 (cmn) (diǎnxīn), 餐后甜點 (cmn), 餐后甜点 (cmn) (cānhòutiándiǎn), 甜食 (cmn) (tiánshí), 甜點 (cmn), 甜点 (cmn) (tiándiǎn), (Western) 西點 (cmn), 西点 (cmn) (xīdiǎn)

• Czech: zákusek (cs) m, dezert (cs) m
• Danish: dessert (da) c
• Dutch: dessert (nl) n, nagerecht (nl) n, toetje (nl) n
• Estonian: magustoit (et), dessert (et)
• Finnish: jälkiruoka (fi)
• French: dessert (fr) m
• Georgian: დესერტი (ka) (deserti)
• German: Nachspeise (de) f, Dessert (de) n
• Greek: γλυκό (el) (glykó) n
• Haitian Creole: desè
• Hebrew: קינוח (he) (qinuakh) m
• Hungarian: desszert (hu)
• Indonesian: disert (id), pencuci mulut (id)
• Italian: dolce (it) m, dessert (it) m
• Japanese: (general) デザート (ja) (dezāto); (only for a sweet one) スイーツ (ja) (suītsu)
• Jèrriais: dêssèrt m
• Korean: 후식 (ko) (husik) (後食 (ko))

• Latin: secunda mensa (la)
• Latvian: deserts (lv) m, saldais ēdiens (lv)
• Lithuanian: desertas (lt) m
• Luxembourgish: Dessert (lb) m
• Macedonian: десерт (mk) (desert) m
• Malay: pencuci mulut (ms)
• Norwegian: dessert (no)
• Persian: پس غذا (fa) (pas-ğazâ), دسر (fa) (deser), پی‌غذا (fa) (či-ğazâ)
• Polish: deser (pl) m
• Portuguese: sobremesa (pt)
• Russian: десерт (ru) (desért) m, сладкое (ru) (sládkoje) n
• Scottish Gaelic: mìlsean (gd) m, mìlse (gd) f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: посластица (sh) f, сластица (sh) f, слатко (sh) n, дезерт (sh) m

  Roman: poslastica (sh) f, slastica (sh) f, slatko (sh) n, dezert (sh) m

• Slovak: dezert (sk) m
• Slovene: sladica (sl) f
• Spanish: dulce (es) m, postre (es) m
• Swedish: efterrätt (sv) c
• Thai: อาหารหวาน (th) (aahaanwaan)
• Turkish: tatlı (tr)
• Ukrainian: десерт (uk) (desért) m
• Uzbek: desert (uz)
• Vietnamese: tráng miệng (vi)
• Volapük: poszib (vo)

Anagrams

• deserts

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Danish

Wikipedia ^da

Etymology

From French dessert, from desservir (“disserve”), from dés- (“dis-”) and servir (“serve”).

Noun

dessert c (singular definite desserten, plural indefinite desserter)

1. dessert

Inflection

    Inflection of dessert

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative, dative and accusative	dessert	desserten	desserter	desserterne
genitive	desserts	dessertens	desserters	desserternes

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Estonian

Noun

dessert (^??? please provide the genitive and partitive!)

1. dessert

Declension

This Estonian noun needs an inflection-table template.

Synonyms

• magustoit

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French

Pronunciation

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Noun

dessert m (plural desserts)

1. dessert, pudding

Verb

dessert

1. third-person singular present indicative of desservir

Anagrams

• déserts

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Norwegian

Noun

dessert m

1. dessert

Inflection

    Inflection of dessert

	indefinite singular	definite singular	indefinite plural	definite plural
Bokmål m	dessert	desserten	desserter	dessertene
Nynorsk m	dessert	desserten	dessertar	dessertane

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Romansch

Noun

dessert m (plural desserts)

1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Surmiran, Puter, Vallader) dessert

Synonyms

• (Sutsilvan) dultsch