ice cream

See also: icecream and ice-cream

English

Strawberry ice cream with strawberries.

Alternative forms

• ice-cream, icecream

Etymology

First recorded as iced cream, from iced +‎ cream.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌaɪsˈkɹiːm/
• enPR: īs'krēm, IPA^(key): /ˈaɪs.kɹiːm/

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• enPR: īskrēm', IPA^(key): /aɪsˈkɹiːm/

Noun

ice cream (countable and uncountable, plural ice creams)

1. (uncountable) A dessert made from frozen sweetened cream or a similar substance, usually flavoured.

   Strawberries are particularly delicious with ice cream.

2. (countable) A snack consisting of ice cream on a stick, in a cup or in a wafer cone.

   Can I have some money for an ice cream, Mum?

Synonyms

• (dessert): iced cream (dated), frozen cow juice
• (in a wafer cone): cone, cornet, ice cream cone, ice-cream cornet

Translations

dessert

• Abkhaz: аршәы (ārš°ə)
• Afrikaans: ys, roomys
• Albanian: akullore (sq) f
• Arabic: مُثَلَّجَات‏‎ f pl (muṯallajāt), بُوظَة‏‎ f (būẓa), آيْس كِرِيم‏‎ m (ʾāys kirīm), جِيلَاتِيّ‏‎ m (jīlātiyy), دُنْدُرْمَة‏‎ f (dundurma)

  Morocco: لجلاس‏‎ (laḡlas)

• Armenian: պաղպաղակ (hy) (pałpałak), մառոժնի (maṙožni)
• Asturian: xeláu m
• Azeri: dondurma (az), marojna (coll.)
• Bashkir: туңдырма (tuñdïrma)
• Basque: izozkiak
• Belarusian: маро́зіва n (maróziva), маро́жанае n (maróžanaje)
• Bengali: আইসক্রীম (aisôkrim)
• Breton: skornenn f
• Bulgarian: сладоле́д m (sladoléd)
• Burmese: ရေခဲမုန့် (my) (rehkai:mun.)
• Catalan: gelat (ca) m
• Cherokee: ᎤᏁᏍᏓᎳᏗᏍᏔᏅᎯᎤᏅᏗ (unesdaladistanvhiunvdi)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 雪糕 (syut³ gou¹), 冰淇淋 (bing¹ kei⁴ lam⁴)

  Hakka: 冰淇淋 (pîn-kî-lîn, pên-kî-lìn), 艾司庫淋 (ái-sṳ-khu-lím)

  Mandarin: 冰淇淋 (zh) (bīngqílín), 雪糕 (zh) (xuěgāo), 冰糕 (zh) (bīnggāo), 冰激凌 (zh) (bīngjīlíng) (mainland China)

  Min Nan: 冰淇淋 (zh-min-nan) (peng-kî-lîm), 冰糕 (peng-ko), 霜糕 (sng-ko), 弓蕉冰, 芎蕉冰 (keng-chio-peng, kin-chio-peng), 弓蕉霜, 芎蕉霜 (keng-chio-sng, kin-chio-sng), 雞卵冰, 鸡卵冰 (ke-nn̄g-peng, koe-nn̄g-peng), 雪糕 (soat-ko), 牛奶冰 (gû-leng-peng, gû-ni-peng, gû-lin-peng)

• Chuvash: сивлек (sivlek)
• Crimean Tatar: dondurma
• Czech: zmrzlina (cs) f
• Danish: is (da) c
• Dutch: roomijs (nl) n, ijs (nl) n
• Esperanto: glaciaĵo
• Estonian: jäätis (et)
• Finnish: jäätelö (fi)
• French: crème glacée (fr) f, (France) glace (fr) f
• Galician: xeado (gl) m
• Georgian: ნაყინი (naq̇ini)
• German: Eis (de) n, Eiscreme (de) f, Speiseeis (de) n

  Alemannic German: Glassee n, Glasse f

• Greek: παγωτό (el) n (pagotó)
• Gujarati: કુલ્ફેમલાઈ f (kulphemlāī), દૂધઠાર m (dūdhṭhār)
• Haitian Creole: krèm
• Hebrew: גְּלִידָה‏‎ (he) f (glidá)
• Hindi: हिममलाई (himamlāī), मलाईबर्फ़ (malāībarf), आइसक्रीम (āisakrīm)
• Hungarian: fagylalt (hu)
• Icelandic: ís (is) m, rjómaís (is) m
• Ido: glacio (io)
• Indonesian: es krim (id)
• Interlingua: gelato
• Irish: reoiteog f, uachtar reoite m
• Italian: gelato (it) m
• Japanese: アイスクリーム (ja) (aisukurīmu), アイス (ja) (aisu)
• Kalmyk: цардсн (tsardsn)
• Kannada: ಐಸ್ ಕ್ರೀಮ್ (ais krīm)
• Kazakh: балмұздақ (kk) (balmuzdaq)
• Khmer: ការ៉េម (karem)
• Komi-Zyrian: лымвый (lymvyj)
• Korean: 아이스크림 (ko) (aiseukeurim), 얼음보숭이 (ko) (eoreumbosung-i) (rare, North Korea)
• Kyrgyz: мороженое (ky) (morocenoye), морожний (morocniy), балмуздак (balmuzdak), тоңдурма (ky) (toñdurma)
• Lao: ສີຄີມ​ກ້ອນ (sikhim kon), ນ້ຳກ້ອນ (nam kǭn)

• Latin: glacies crepito m
• Latvian: saldējums m
• Lithuanian: ledai m pl
• Luxembourgish: Glace (lb) f
• Macedonian: сладолед m (sladoled)
• Malagasy: ranomandry (mg)
• Malay: aiskrim (ms)
• Malayalam: ഐസ്‌ക്രീം (ais‌krīṃ)
• Maltese: ġelat
• Manx: key riojey m, key riojit m
• Maori: aihikiriimi
• Marathi: आइस्क्रीम (āiskrīm)
• Moksha: эйня (ejnja)
• Mongolian: зайрмаг (mn) (zajrmag)
• Navajo: abeʼ yistiní
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: iskrem (no) m, is (no) m

  Nynorsk: iskrem m, is m

• Pashto: سړوپۍ‏‎ f (saṛopǝy)
• Persian: بستنی‏‎ (fa) (bastani)
• Polish: lody (pl) m pl
• Portuguese: gelado (pt) m (Portugal), sorvete (pt) m (Brazil)
• Romanian: înghețată (ro) f
• Romansch: glatsch m
• Russian: моро́женое (ru) n (moróženoje)
• Samoan: aisakulimi (sm)
• Scottish Gaelic: reòiteag f, reòtagan m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: сладолед m

  Roman: sladoled (sh) m

• Sinhalese: අයිස් ක්‍රීම් (ayis k‍rīm)
• Slovak: zmrzlina f
• Slovene: sladoled (sl) m
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: zmarzlina f

• Sotho: aesekerimi
• Spanish: helado (es) m, (Mexico) nieve (es)
• Swahili: aiskrimu
• Swedish: glass (sv) c
• Tagalog: sorbetes (tl)
• Tajik: яхмос (tg) (yaxmos)
• Tamil: ஐஸ் கிரீம் (ais kirīm)
• Tatar: туңдырма (tuñdırma)
• Telugu: ఐస్ క్రీమ్ (ais krīm)
• Thai: ไอศกรีม (th) (ai-sà-griim), ไอติม (ai-dtim)
• Turkish: dondurma (tr), buzkaymak
• Turkmen: dongdurma
• Ukrainian: моро́зиво n (morózyvo), моро́жене n (moróžene)
• Urdu: آئس کریم‏‎ (ā'is krīm)
• Uyghur: ماروژنا‏‎ (marozhna), ماروژنى‏‎ (marozhni)
• Uzbek: muzqaymoq (uz), muzday (uz), morojniy (uz)
• Veps: jähine
• Vietnamese: kem (vi)
• Welsh: hufen iâ (cy)
• Yiddish: אײַזקרעם‏‎ m (ayzkrem)
• Zulu: u-ayisikhilimu class 1a/2a

in a cone

• Afrikaans: draairoomys, draairoomyse pl, roomys, roomyse pl
• Albanian: akullore (sq)
• Armenian: պաղպաղակ (hy) (pałpałak)
• Azeri: dondurma (az)
• Catalan: carapulla f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 甜筒 (zh) (tiántǒng)

• Chuvash: сивлек (sivlek)
• Czech: zmrzlina (cs) f, nanuk (cs) m (on a stick)
• Danish: isvaffel (da) c, vaffelis (da) c
• Dutch: ijsje (nl) n
• Finnish: jäätelö (fi)
• French: glace (fr) f
• German: Eis (de) n

• Greek: παγωτό χωνάκι n (pagotó chonáki)
• Hebrew: גָּבִיעַ גְּלִידָה‏‎ (gavía glidá)
• Icelandic: ís í brauði, ís í brauðformi
• Irish: reoiteog, uachtar reoite
• Japanese: アイスクリーム (ja) (aisukurīmu)
• Kalmyk: цардсн (tsardsn)
• Macedonian: сладолед m (sladoled)
• Polish: lód (pl) m, lód w rożku m (in a cone), lód na patyku m (on a stick)
• Portuguese: casquinha f
• Romanian: înghețată (ro) f
• Russian: мороженое (ru) n (moroženoje)
• Spanish: cucurucho (es) m
• Swedish: glasstrut (sv) c, strutglass c
• Turkish: dondurma (tr)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout#Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Samogitian: ^{(please verify)} ledā
• Sicilian: ^{(please verify)} jilatu

• Sundanese: ^{(please verify)} éskrim

See also

• ice cream on Wikipedia.Wikipedia