ice cube

See also: icecube

English

An ice cube.

Alternative forms

• icecube
• ice-cube

Noun

ice cube (plural ice cubes)

1. Used other than as an idiom: see ice,‎ cube.
2. Any small piece of ice used for cooling drinks, larger than crushed ice, regardless of their shape.

   The new freezer in our kitchen makes round ice cubes!

Translations

small piece of ice used for cooling drinks

• Arabic: مُكَعَّبُ ثَلْجٍ‏‎ m (mukaʿʿabu ṯaljin)
• Catalan: glaçó (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 冰塊 (zh), 冰块 (zh) (bīngkuài)

• Danish: isterning (da) c
• Dutch: ijsklontje (nl)
• Finnish: jääpala (fi)
• French: glaçon (fr) m, cube de glace (fr) (Canadian French)
• German: Eiswürfel (de) m
• Greek: παγάκι (el) n (pagáki)
• Hungarian: jégkocka (hu)
• Icelandic: klaki (is) m, ísmoli (is) m

• Italian: cubetto di ghiaccio
• Japanese: クラッシュドアイス (kurasshudo aisu), アイスキューブ (aisu kyūbu)
• Macedonian: коцка мраз f (kocka mraz)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: isbit m, isterning m

  Nynorsk: isbit m, isterning m

• Polish: kostka lodu (pl) f
• Portuguese: cubo de gelo
• Russian: ку́бик льда́ m (kúbik lʹdá)
• Spanish: cubito de hielo m, cubo de hielo, hielo (es) m
• Swedish: isbit (sv) c, iskub c