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 this orchid.
3. (uncountable) The extract of this fruit.
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) Esperanto: vanilo Finnish: vanilja (fi) French: vanille (fr) Greek: βανίλια (el) f. (vanília) Hebrew: וניל (he) Hungarian: vanília (hu) Icelandic: vanillujurt (is) f. Ido: vanilo (io)

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

fruit

Chinese: 香草 (xiāngcǎo) Czech: vanilka (cs) f. Esperanto: vanilo Finnish: vaniljatanko (when dried) French: vanille (fr) German: Vanille (de) n. Greek: βανίλια (el) f. (vanília) Icelandic: vanilla (is) f., vanilja (is) f. Ido: vanilo (io)

Italian: vaniglia (it) Macedonian: ванила (mk) (vaníla) f. Romanian: vanilie (ro) f. Russian: ваниль (ru) (vaníl') f. Slovene: vanilja (sl) f. Spanish: vainilla (es) f. Swedish: vaniljstång (sv) c. Turkish: vanilya (tr)

natural extract

Esperanto: vanilo Finnish: vaniljauute (fi) French: vanille (fr) Greek: βανίλια (el) f. (vanília) Hebrew: וניל (he)

Icelandic: vanilla (is) f., vanilja (is) f. Russian: ваниль (ru) (vaníl') f. Spanish: vainilla (es) f. Turkish: vanilya (tr)

flavour/flavor

Dutch: vanille (nl) Esperanto: vanilo Finnish: vanilja (fi) French: vanille (fr) German: vanille a Greek: βανίλια (el) f. (vanília) Icelandic: vanilla (is) f., vanilja (is) f.

Italian: vanillina (it) Japanese: バニラ (ja) Macedonian: ванила (mk) (vaníla) f. Russian: ваниль (ru) (vaníl') f. Spanish: vainilla (es) f. Swedish: vanilj (sv) Turkish: vanilya (tr)

artificial extract

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

Macedonian: ванила (mk) (vaníla) f. Russian: ваниль (ru) (vaníl') 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

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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