vanilla

See also Vanilla

English

Wikipedia

Etymology

From Spanish vainilla, diminunitive of vaina.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /vəˈnɪlə/
• Rhymes: -ɪlə

Noun

vanilla (countable and uncountable; plural vanillas)

1. (countable) Any tropical, climbing orchid of the genus Vanilla (especially Vanilla planifolia), bearing podlike fruit yielding an extract used in flavoring food or in perfumes.
2. (countable) The fruit or bean of the vanilla plant.
3. (uncountable) The extract of the fruit of the vanilla plant.
4. (uncountable) The distinctive fragrant flavour/flavor characteristic of vanilla extract.

   You can tell that the secret ingredient missing from New Coke^TM was vanilla, because certain South American economies collapsed when it was introduced, and miraculously revived when the old formula was used again.

5. (uncountable) Any artificially produced homologue of vanilla extract, principally vanillin produced from lignin from the paper industry or from petrochemicals.

Synonyms

• (bean): vanilla bean
• (extract): vanilla extract
• (artificial extract): imitation vanilla

Translations

orchid

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 香子蘭 (cmn), 香子兰 (cmn) (xiāngzilán)

• Czech: vanilka (cs) f
• Esperanto: vanilo
• Finnish: vanilja (fi)
• French: vanille (fr) f
• Greek: βανίλια (el) (vanília) f (vanília)
• Hebrew: וניל (he)
• Hungarian: vanília (hu)
• Icelandic: vanillujurt (is) f
• Ido: vanilo (io)

• Italian: vaniglia (it) f
• Jèrriais: vanille f
• Macedonian: ванила (mk) (vaníla) f
• Norwegian: vanilje (no)
• Portuguese: baunilha (pt)
• Romanian: vanilie (ro) f
• Russian: ваниль (ru) (vanílʹ) f
• Spanish: vainilla (es) f
• Swedish: vaniljorkidé (sv) c, vanilj (sv) c
• Thai: วานิลา (th) (waanilaa) f
• Turkish: vanilya (tr)

fruit

• Basque: banilla (eu)
• Cebuano: baynilya
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 香草 (cmn) (xiāngcǎo)

• Czech: vanilka (cs) f
• Danish: vanilje (da) c
• Esperanto: vanilo
• Finnish: vaniljatanko (fi) (when dried)
• French: vanille (fr) f
• German: Vanille (de) f
• Greek: βανίλια (el) (vanília) f
• Icelandic: vanilla (is) f, vanilja (is) f
• Ido: vanilo (io)
• Indonesian: vanila (id)
• Italian: vaniglia (it) f
• Japanese: バニラ (ja) (banira)
• Jèrriais: vanille f

• Korean: 바닐라 (ko) (banilla)
• Kurdish: vanîlya (ku)
• Macedonian: ванила (mk) (vaníla) f
• Malagasy: vanila (mg)
• Malay: vanila (ms)
• Quechua: waynilla (qu)
• Romanian: vanilie (ro) f
• Russian: ваниль (ru) (vanílʹ) f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ванила (sh) f, ванилија (sh) f

  Roman: vanila (sh) f, vanilija (sh) f

• Slovene: vanilja (sl) f
• Spanish: vainilla (es) f
• Swedish: vaniljstång (sv) c
• Tongan: vanila (to)
• Turkish: vanilya (tr)
• Urdu: ايک خوشبو (ur) (aik khushbu) f

natural extract

• Esperanto: vanilo
• Finnish: vaniljauute (fi)
• French: vanille (fr) f
• German: Vanille (de) f
• Greek: βανίλια (el) (vanília) f
• Hebrew: וניל (he)

• Icelandic: vanilla (is) f, vanilja (is) f
• Indonesian: vanila (id)
• Jèrriais: vanille f
• Russian: ваниль (ru) (vanílʹ) f
• Spanish: vainilla (es) f
• Turkish: vanilya (tr)

flavor

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 香草 (cmn) (xiāngcǎo)

• Czech: vanilka (cs) f
• Dutch: vanille (nl)
• Esperanto: vanilo
• Finnish: vanilja (fi)
• French: vanille (fr) f
• German: Vanille (de) fVanille- (de)
• Greek: βανίλια (el) (vanília) f
• Icelandic: vanilla (is) f, vanilja (is) f

• Indonesian: vanila (id)
• Italian: vanillina (it) f
• Japanese: バニラ (ja) (banira)
• Korean: 바닐라 (ko) (banilla)
• Macedonian: ванила (mk) (vaníla) f
• Russian: ваниль (ru) (vanílʹ) f
• Spanish: vainilla (es) f
• Swedish: vanilj (sv)
• Turkish: vanilya (tr)

artificial extract

• Finnish: vanilliini (fi)
• French: vanille (fr) f
• Greek: βανίλια (el) (vanília) f
• Icelandic: vanilla (is) f, vanilja (is) f
• Ido: vanilo (io)

• Jèrriais: vanille f
• Macedonian: ванила (mk) (vaníla) f
• Russian: ваниль (ru) (vanílʹ) f
• Spanish: vainilla (es) f
• Turkish: vanilya (tr)

Adjective

vanilla (not comparable)

1. (colloquial) By association with vanilla as the "plain" flavour of ice cream: the standard, plain, default, unmodified, basic.

   vanilla suit.

Synonyms

• See also Wikisaurus:bare-bones

Translations

of vanilla

• Finnish: vanilja-
• French: de vanille
• Italian: di vaniglia

• Russian: ванильный (ru) (vaníl'nyj)
• Spanish: vainilla (es) f
• Swedish: vanilj- (sv)

flavoured/flavored with vanilla

• Dutch: vanille-
• Finnish: vanilja-
• French: à la vanille

• Italian: alla vaniglia
• Russian: ванильный (ru) (vaníl'nyj)
• Swedish: vanilj- (sv)

standard

• Finnish: tavallinen, vanilja- (colloquial)

• Russian: обычный (ru) (obyčnyj) m

Related terms

• vanillin

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Icelandic

Etymology

From Spanish vainilla "little pod", equivalent to "vain(a)" meaning "sheath". From the Latin word vagina meaning "sheath" + -illa which is a diminutive suffix.

Noun

vanilla f

1. vanilla

Derived terms

• vanilluplanta