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

• 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

Descendants

• Japanese: アイスクリーム (aisukurīmu)
• Korean: 아이스크림 (aiseukeurim)
• Maori: aihikirīmi

Derived terms

• ice cream truck
• ice cream van

Translations

dessert

• Abkhaz: аршәы (arŝʷə)
• Afrikaans: ys (af), roomys (af)
• Albanian: akullore (sq) f
• Amharic: አይስ ክሬም (ʾäys kərem)
• Arabic: مُثَلَّجَات f pl (muṯallajāt), بُوظَة f (būẓa), آيْس كِرِيم m (ʔāys kirīm), جِيلَاتِيّ m (jīlātiyy), دُنْدُرْمَة f (dundurma)

  Gulf Arabic: بريد m (barrīd), برد m (barrid)

  Morocco: لجلاس (laḡlas)

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

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

  Dungan: бинҗилин (binžilin)

  Hakka: 冰淇淋 (pîn-kî-lîn, pên-kî-lìn), 艾司庫淋／艾司库淋 (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 Dong: 冰淇淋 (bĭng-gì-lìng)

  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, 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)

  Wu: 冰淇淋 (pin jji lin)

• 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)
• Kabuverdianu: jeladu
• Kalmyk: цардсн (tsardsn)
• Kannada: ಐಸ್ ಕ್ರೀಮ್ (ais krīm)
• Kazakh: балмұздақ (kk) (balmūzdaq)
• Khmer: ការ៉េម (kaareem)
• Komi-Zyrian: лымвый (lymvyj)
• Korean: 아이스크림 (ko) (aiseukeurim), 아이스케이크 (ko) (aiseukeikeu) (chiefly North Korea), 얼음과자 (ko) (eoreumgwaja) (chiefly North Korea), 얼음보숭이 (ko) (eoreumbosung'i) (rare, North Korea)
• Kyrgyz: мороженое (ky) (morojenoye), морожний (morojniy), балмуздак (ky) (balmuzdak), тоңдурма (ky) (toŋdurma)
• Lao: ສີຄີມ​ກ້ອນ (sikhim kon), ນ້ຳກ້ອນ (nam kǭn)
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• 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 (ais‌krīṁ)
• Maltese: ġelat
• Manx: key riojey m, key riojit m
• Maori: aihikirīmi
• Marathi: आइस्क्रीम (āiskrīm)
• Moksha: эйня (ejńa)
• Mongolian: зайрмаг (mn) (zajrmag)
• Navajo: abeʼ yistiní
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: iskrem (no) m, is (no) m

  Nynorsk: iskrem m, is m

• Ottoman Turkish: طوڭدیرمه
• 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)
• Rusyn: змерзли́на f (zmerzlýna)
• Samoan: aisakulimi (sm)
• Sanskrit: पयोहिम n (payohima)
• 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), sorbete (es) m (El Salvador)
• Swahili: aiskrimu
• Swedish: glass (sv) c
• Sylheti: ꠀꠁꠍꠇꠤꠞꠤꠝ (aisókirim)
• 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 (th) (ai-dtim)
• Tibetan: ཁྱགས་པ་མངར་མོ (khyags pa mngar mo)
• 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 (af), roomyse pl
• Albanian: akullore (sq)
• Armenian: պաղպաղակ (hy) (paġpaġak)
• Azerbaijani: 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, ijsco (nl)
• Finnish: jäätelö (fi)
• French: glace (fr) f
• Galician: cornete (gl) m
• German: Eis (de) n
• Greek: παγωτό χωνάκι n (pagotó chonáki)
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• Hebrew: גָּבִיעַ גְּלִידָה (gavía glidá)
• Hungarian: jégkrém (hu) (on a stick), fagylalt (hu) (in a cup or cone), fagyi (hu) (colloquial)
• 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)
• Sanskrit: पयोहिम n (payohima)
• Spanish: cucurucho (es) m
• Swedish: glasstrut (sv) c, strutglass c
• Turkish: dondurma (tr), buzkaymak, ambarbuz (dialectal)

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

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