ice cream definition

See also: icecream and ice-cream

English

Strawberry ice cream with strawberries.

Alternative forms

ice-cream, icecream

Etymology

Lexicalization of a reduced pronunciation of iced cream with regular deletion of -d before a cluster, from iced +‎ cream. Compare mash potato.

Pronunciation

(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌaɪsˈkɹiːm/
enPR: īs'krēm, IPA^(key): /ˈaɪs.kɹiːm/
- Audio (US, California) (file)
enPR: īskrēm', IPA^(key): /aɪsˈkɹiːm/
Rhymes: -iːm

Noun

ice cream (countable and uncountable, plural ice creams)

(uncountable) A dessert made from frozen sweetened cream or a similar substance, usually flavoured.
Strawberries are particularly delicious with ice cream.
(countable) A portion 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

Derived terms

Descendants

→ Arabic: آيِس كِرِيم‎ (ʔāyis kirīm)
→ Indonesian: es krim
→ Japanese: アイスクリーム (aisukurīmu)
→ Korean: 아이스크림 (aiseukeurim)
→ Magahi: 𑂅𑂮𑂹𑂍𑂹𑂩𑂲𑂧 (iskrīm)
→ Maori: aihikirīmi
→ Malay: aiskrim
→ Niuean: aisikirīmi
→ Punjabi: ਆਈਸ ਕਰੀਮ (āīsa karīm)
→ Swahili: aiskrimu
→ Tokelauan: aiha-kulimi

Translations

dessert

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

Hijazi Arabic: آيسكريم‎ m (āyskrīm), أسْكِريم‎ m (askirīm)

Iraqi Arabic: موطة‎ f (moṭe)

Moroccan Arabic: لجلاس‎ f (laḡlas)
Armenian: պաղպաղակ (hy) (paġpaġak), մառոժնի (maṙožni)
Assamese: আইচক্ৰিম (aisokrim)
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܓܠܝܼܕܵܐ‎ m (glīda)
Asturian: xeláu m
Azerbaijani: dondurma (az), marojna (colloquial)
Bashkir: туңдырма (toñdırma)
Basque: izozkiak
Belarusian: маро́зіва n (maróziva), маро́жанае n (maróžanaje), лёды pl (ljódy)
Bengali: আইসক্রীম (aiśokrim), মালাই বরফ (malai boroph)
Bhojpuri: मलाई बर्फ (malāī barph)
Breton: skornenn f
Bulgarian: сладоле́д m (sladoléd)
Burmese: ရေခဲမုန့် (my) (rehkai:mun.)
Catalan: gelat (ca) m
Cherokee: ᎤᏅᏗ ᎤᏁᏍᏓᎳᏛ (unvdi unesdaladv)
Chinese:
Cantonese: 雪糕 (yue) (syut³ gou¹), 冰淇淋 (bing¹ kei⁴ lam^4-2)

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 (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 (¹pin-ji-lin), 冷飲／冷饮 (⁶lan-in)
Chuvash: сивлек (sivlek)
Crimean Tatar: dondurma
Czech: zmrzlina (cs) f
Danish: is (da) c
Dutch: roomijs (nl) n, ijs (nl) n
Esperanto: glaciaĵo (eo)
Estonian: jäätis (et)
Faroese: please add this translation if you can
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: आइसक्रीम m (āiskrīm), हिममलाई (himamlāī), मलाईबर्फ़ f (malāībarf)
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), 氷菓子 (ja) (こおりがし, kōrigashi)
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), 에스키모 (eseukimo) (brand name, North Korea),까까오 (kkakkao) (North Korea), 얼음과자 (ko) (eoreumgwaja) (chiefly North Korea), 얼음보숭이 (ko) (eoreumbosung'i) (rare, North Korea)
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: bestenî (ku) f, dondirme (ku)
Kyrgyz: балмуздак (ky) (balmuzdak), тоңдурма (ky) (toŋdurma)
Lao: ກະແລັມ (ka læm), ກະແລມ (ka lǣm)
Latin: glaciēs edūlis f
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:
Cyrillic: зайрмаг (mn) (zajrmag), мөхөөлдөс (mn) (möxööldös)
Navajo: abeʼ yistiní
Northern Sami: lákcajiekŋa
Norwegian:
Bokmål: iskrem (no) m, is (no) m

Nynorsk: iskrem m, is m
Oriya: ଆଇସ୍କ୍ରିମ (aiskrimô)
Ottoman Turkish: طوڭدرمه‎ (doñdurma)
Pashto: سړوپۍ‎ f (saṛopǝy), شېريخ‎ m (širyax)
Persian: بَسْتَنی‎ (fa) (bastani)
Dari: شِیرْیَخ‎ (fa) (šīryax), آیْس کِرِیم‎ (āys kirīm)
Plautdietsch: Iessschmaunt m
Polish: lody (pl) nvir
Portuguese: gelado (pt) m (Portugal), sorvete (pt) m (Brazil)
Punjabi: ਆਈਸ ਕਰੀਮ f (āīsa karīm)
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: сла̏доле̄д m

Roman: slȁdolēd (sh) m
Sinhalese: අයිස් ක්‍රීම් (ayis krīm)
Slovak: zmrzlina f
Slovene: sladolẹ̑d (sl) m
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: zmarzlina f

Upper Sorbian: zmjerzlina 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), бастанӣ (bastanī)
Tamil: ஐஸ் கிரீம் (ais kirīm), குளிர்களி (kuḷirkaḷi), பனிக்கூழ் (ta) (paṉikkūḻ)
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), འཁྱགས་པ་བྱི་རིལ ('khyags pa byi ril), འཁྱག་སྤྲི ('khyag spri), འཁྱགས་ཞོ ('khyags zho)
Tigrinya: ኣይስክሪም (ʾaysəkrim)
Turkish: dondurma (tr), buzkaymak
Turkmen: doňdurma
Ukrainian: моро́зиво n (morózyvo), моро́жене n (moróžene)
Urdu: آئِس کِرِیم‎ m (āis kirīm)
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), מאַראָזשענע‎‎ f (marozhene‎), ליאָדעס‎ pl (lyodes)
Yoruba: áísìkiriìmù
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)
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)
Lao: ກະແລັມ (ka læm), ກະແລມ (ka lǣm)
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: моро́женое (ru) n (moróženoje)
Sanskrit: पयोहिम n (payohima)
Spanish: cucurucho (es) m
Swedish: glasstrut (sv) c, strutglass c
Thai: ไอศกรีม (th) (ai-sà-griim), ไอติม (th) (ai-dtim)
Turkish: dondurma (tr), buzkaymak, ambarbuz (dialectal)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Dictionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

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

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