custard

See also: Custard

English

Etymology

Alteration of croustade.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkʌs.təd/
• 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

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

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

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “custard”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “custard”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “custard”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024