tiramisu

See also: tiramisù and tiramisú

English

Alternative forms

• tiramisù

Etymology

Borrowing from Italian tiramisù (literally “pick-me-up”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˌtɪɹəmɪˈsuː/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˌtɪɹəˈmisu/, /ˌtɪɹəmiˈsu/
• Rhymes: -uː

Noun

tiramisu (plural tiramisus)

1. An Italian semifreddo dessert, originally from Veneto, made from ladyfinger biscuits, cocoa, mascarpone cheese, Marsala wine, eggs, sugar and espresso coffee.

Translations

semifreddo dessert

• Afrikaans: please add this translation if you can
• Arabic: تِيرَامِيسُو‏‎ m (tīrāmīsū)
• Armenian: տիրամիսու (tiramisu)
• Asturian: tiramisú m
• Azeri: tiramisu
• Bavarian: Tiramisu n
• Belarusian: тырамісу́ m (tyramisú)
• Bengali: তিরামিসু (tiramisu)
• Breton: tiramisu m
• Bulgarian: тирамису m (tiramisu)
• Catalan: tiramisú m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 意大利芝士餅 (ji³ daai⁶ lei⁶ zi¹ si^6-2 beng²), 意大利芝士蛋糕 (ji³ daai⁶ lei⁶ zi¹ si^6-2 daan⁶ gou¹)

  Mandarin: 提拉米蘇 (zh), 提拉米苏 (zh) (tílāmǐsū, dīlāmǐsū), 隄拉米蘇 (zh), 隄拉米苏 (zh) (tílāmǐsū, dīlāmǐsū)

  Min Nan: thi̍h-lā-mī-su

  Wu: 渧拉米酥 (di 'la mi su)

• Czech: tiramisu m
• Danish: tiramisu c, tiramisu c
• Dutch: tiramisu m
• Esperanto: tiramisu
• Estonian: tiramisu (et)
• Finnish: tiramisu
• French: tiramisu (fr) m
• Galician: tiramisú m
• Georgian: ტირამისუ (ṭiramisu)
• German: Tiramisu (de) n
• Greek: τιραμισού n (tiramisoú)
• Gujarati: please add this translation if you can
• Hebrew: טִירָמִיסוּ‏‎ m (tiramisú)
• Hindi: please add this translation if you can
• Hungarian: tiramisu (hu)
• Icelandic: tíramísú n
• Indonesian: tiramisu
• Italian: tiramisù (it) m

• Japanese: ティラミス (tiramisu)
• Javanese: tiramisu
• Kazakh: тирамису (tïramïsw)
• Khmer: please add this translation if you can
• Korean: 티라미수 (tiramisu)
• Lao: please add this translation if you can
• Lithuanian: tiramisu m
• Luxembourgish: Tiramisu (lb) m
• Macedonian: тирамису m (tiramisu)
• Malay: please add this translation if you can
• Malayalam: please add this translation if you can
• Marathi: please add this translation if you can
• Neapolitan: tiramisù m
• Norwegian: tiramisu m, tiramisù m
• Persian: تیرامیسو‏‎ (tirâmisu)
• Polish: tiramisu n
• Portuguese: tiramisu m, tiramissu m
• Romanian: tiramisu n
• Russian: тирамису́ (ru) m (tiramisú)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: тирамису̏ m

  Roman: tiramisȕ (sh) m

• Slovak: tiramisu m, tiramisú m
• Slovene: tiramisu m
• Spanish: tiramisú m
• Swedish: tiramisu c
• Tagalog: tiramisu
• Telugu: please add this translation if you can
• Thai: ตีรามีซู (dtii-raa-mii-suu)
• Turkish: tiramisu
• Ukrainian: тирамісу́ m (tyramisú)
• Urdu: please add this translation if you can
• Venetian: tiramesù m
• Vietnamese: tiramisu

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Finnish

Etymology

Borrowing from Italian tiramisù (literally “pick-me-up”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtirɑmisu/

Noun

tiramisu

1. tiramisu (dessert)

Declension

Inflection of tiramisu (Kotus type 1/valo, no gradation)
nominative		tiramisu	tiramisut
genitive		tiramisun	tiramisujen
partitive		tiramisua	tiramisuja
illative		tiramisuun	tiramisuihin
		singular	plural
nominative		tiramisu	tiramisut
accusative	nom.	tiramisu	tiramisut
	gen.	tiramisun
genitive		tiramisun	tiramisujen
partitive		tiramisua	tiramisuja
inessive		tiramisussa	tiramisuissa
elative		tiramisusta	tiramisuista
illative		tiramisuun	tiramisuihin
adessive		tiramisulla	tiramisuilla
ablative		tiramisulta	tiramisuilta
allative		tiramisulle	tiramisuille
essive		tiramisuna	tiramisuina
translative		tiramisuksi	tiramisuiksi
instructive		—	tiramisuin
abessive		tiramisutta	tiramisuitta
comitative		—	tiramisuineen

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French

Etymology

Borrowing from Italian tiramisù (literally “pick-me-up”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ti.ʁa.mi.su/
• Rhymes: -u

Noun

tiramisu m (plural tiramisus)

1. tiramisu (dessert)

Further reading

• “tiramisu” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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Japanese

Romanization

tiramisu

1. Rōmaji transcription of ティラミス

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Polish

Etymology

Borrowing from Italian tiramisù (literally “pick-me-up”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ti.raˈmʲi.su/

Noun

tiramisu n (indeclinable)

1. tiramisu (dessert)

Declension

declension of tiramisu

	singular	plural
nominative	tiramisu	tiramisu
genitive	tiramisu	tiramisu
dative	tiramisu	tiramisu
accusative	tiramisu	tiramisu
instrumental	tiramisu	tiramisu
locative	tiramisu	tiramisu
vocative	tiramisu	tiramisu

Further reading

• tiramisu in Polish dictionaries at PWN

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Portuguese

Alternative forms

• tiramissu

Etymology

Borrowing from Italian tiramisù (literally “pick-me-up”).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -u

Noun

tiramisu m (plural tiramisus)

1. tiramisu (dessert)

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Romanian

Etymology

Borrowing from Italian tiramisù (literally “pick-me-up”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌti.raˈmi.su/

Noun

tiramisu n (plural tiramisu)

1. tiramisu (dessert)

Declension

declension of tiramisu

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) tiramisu	tiramisul	(niște) tiramisu	—
genitive/dative	(unui) tiramisu	tiramisului	(unor) tiramisu	—
vocative	tiramisule		—