custard

See also: Custard

English

Etymology

Alteration of croustade.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈkʌs.təd/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈkʌs.tɚd/

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• Rhymes: -ʌstə(ɹ)d

Noun

custard (countable and uncountable, plural custards)

1. A type of sauce made from milk and eggs (and usually sugar, and sometimes vanilla or other flavourings) and thickened by heat, served hot poured over desserts, as a filling for some pies and cakes, or cold and solidified; also used as a base for some savoury dishes, such as quiches, or eaten as a stand-alone dessert.

Holonyms

• trifle

Derived terms

• confectioner's custard
• custard apple
• custard arm
• custard brains
• custard Christian
• custard-chucker
• custard coffin
• custard cream
• custard cup
• custard-cups
• custard glass
• custard pie
• custard powder
• custard tart
• custardy
• egg custard
• frozen custard
• fruit custard
• love custard
• turn to custard

 

Translations

sauce

• Afrikaans: vla
• Afrikaans: vla
• Arabic: كَاسْتَرْد‎ m (kāstard)
• Assamese: কাষ্টাৰ (kastar)
• Bulgarian: крем караме́л m (krem karamél)
• Catalan: crema (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 吉士 (gat¹ si^6-2), 吉士醬, 吉士酱 (gat¹ si^6-2 zoeng³) (custard sauce), 奶黃, 奶黄 (naai⁵ wong⁴) (thick egg custard filling in Chinese steamed buns)

  Mandarin: 卡士達, 卡士达 (kǎshìdá), 吉士 (zh) (jíshì), 奶油凍, 奶油冻 (nǎiyóudòng), 乳蛋糕 (rǔdàngāo), 奶黃, 奶黄 (nǎihuáng), 蛋羹 (dàngēng), 軟凍, 软冻 (ruǎndòng), 牛奶沙司 (niúnǎi shāsī), 蛋漿, 蛋浆 (dànjiāng), 蛋奶凍, 蛋奶冻 (dànnǎidòng)

• Czech: pudink (cs) m
• Finnish: maitokiisseli, vanukas (fi)
• French: crème anglaise (fr) f, crème pâtissière (fr) f, custard (fr) m
• Galician: crema (gl) f
• German: (when poured) Vanillesoße (de) f (usually does but need not contain vanilla); (when thick) Pudding (de) m, Creme (de) f, Puddingcreme f, Eiercreme f
• Hungarian: sodó (hu)

• Irish: custard m
• Italian: crema pasticcera (it) f
• Japanese: カスタード (ja) (kasutādo)
• Korean: 커스터드 (keoseuteodeu)
• Latvian: olu krēms
• Malay: kastard
• Maori: kahetete, kātete
• Persian: کاستارد‎ (kâstârd)
• Portuguese: creme inglês m
• Russian: заварно́й крем m (zavarnój krem), ка́стард m (kástard)
• Spanish: crema pastelera (es) f
• Welsh: cwstard m

See also

• bavarois
• crème brûlée
• crème caramel
• cream puff
• custard winds
• floating island
• trifle
• panna cotta, pannacotta
• vanilla slice
• vla
• zabaglione

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Irish

Etymology

Borrowed from English.

Noun

custard m (genitive singular custaird, nominative plural custaird)

1. custard

Declension

Declension of custard

First declension

Bare forms: Case Singular Plural Nominative custard custaird Vocative a chustaird a chustarda Genitive custaird custard Dative custard custaird

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Plural Nominative an custard na custaird Genitive an chustaird na gcustard Dative leis an gcustard don chustard leis na custaird

Derived terms

• custardúll, úll custaird (“custard apple”)
• flan custaird, toirtín custaird (“egg custard”)
• púdar custaird (“custard powder”)
• toirtín custaird (“custard tart”)

 

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
custard	chustard	gcustard
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• "custard" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• Entries containing “custard” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
• Entries containing “custard” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.