Danish

Alteration of Middle English Denish, Dench (under the influence of Dan — compare Dane), from Old English Denisċ (“Danish”), from Proto-Germanic *daniskaz. By surface analysis, Dane +‎ -ish.

• danish (noun; sense Danish pastry)

• IPA^(key): /ˈdeɪ.nɪʃ/

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Danish (uncountable)

2. The language of Danes and Denmark.

• Old Danish
• Middle Danish
• Modern Danish

Danish (not comparable)

1. Of or pertaining to Denmark.
   • 2023 January 3, Ben Church, “How Christian Eriksen returned to football after suffering cardiac arrest on pitch”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     The Danish midfielder received life-saving treatment during his country’s game against Finland in June 2021, eventually being resuscitated and taken to hospital.

Danish (plural Danish)

1. (usually collective) Danes, natives of Denmark.

Danish (countable and uncountable, plural Danishes)

1. (informal, chiefly US) Ellipsis of Danish pastry.
   • 1984 March 8, Peggy Speirs, “Doing the birdie on a long, long break”, in Evening Post, number 32,833, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 5, column 5:

     Hotel food is reasonably good, and rather British, except for breakfasts, when most hotels serve ensaimades, a puff pastry half way between a croissant and a Danish.

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Danish terms
• Appendix:Danish Swadesh list for a Swadesh list of basic vocabulary words in Danish

• “Danish”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

• ISO 639-1 code da, ISO 639-3 code dan (SIL)
• Ethnologue entry for Danish, dan ⁠
• Danish on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Borrowed from Urdu دَانِش (dāniś), from Classical Persian دَانِش (dāniš).

Danish

1. A male given name.

From Dan +‎ -ish.

Danish (not comparable)

1. (very rare) Characteristic of someone named Dan.

• Danielish

• handis, sandhi

Borrowed from Persian دانش (“knowledge”).

• IPA^(key): [dɛ.neʃ]
• Rhymes: -niʃ, -iʃ
• Hyphenation: Da‧nish

Danish (Jawi spelling دانيش)

1. a male given name from Persian