ice cream

See also: icecream and ice-cream

English

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/, /ˈaɪsˌkɹiːm/
enPR: īs'krēm, IPA^(key): /ˈaɪs.kɹiːm/
- Audio (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?
(slang, uncountable) The drug methamphetamine.

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)
→ Chinese: 冰淇淋
→ Hokkien: ice cream
→ Indonesian: es krim
→ Japanese: アイスクリーム (aisukurīmu)
- → Hokkien: ăi-sīr-khu-lìn-mù
→ Korean: 아이스크림 (aiseukeurim)
→ Magahi: 𑂅𑂮𑂹𑂍𑂹𑂩𑂲𑂧 (iskrīm)
→ Maori: aihikirīmi
→ Malay: aiskrim
→ Niuean: aisikirīmi
→ Punjabi: ਆਈਸ ਕਰੀਮ (āīsa karīm)
→ Swahili: aiskrimu
→ Tagalog: ayskrim
→ Tausug: ayskrim
→ 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)
Egyptian Arabic: أيس كريم m (áyes kerēm)

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

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

Iraqi Arabic: موطة f (moṭe)

Moroccan Arabic: جلاص f (glāṣ), ڭلاص f (glāṣ)

North Levantine Arabic: بوظة f (būẓa)

South Levantine Arabic: بوظة f (būẓa)
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 (tuñdırma)
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 (bg) m (sladoléd)
Burmese: ရေခဲမုန့် (my) (rehkai:mun.)
Carpathian Rusyn: змерзли́на f (zmerzlýna)
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)

Eastern Min: 冰淇淋 (bĭng-gì-lìng)

Hakka: 冰淇淋 (pîn-kî-lîn, pên-kî-lìn), 艾司庫淋 / 艾司库淋 (ái-sṳ-khu-lím)

Hokkien: 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)

Mandarin: 冰淇淋 (zh) (bīngqílín), 雪糕 (zh) (xuěgāo), 冰糕 (zh) (bīnggāo), 冰激凌 (zh) (bīngjīlíng) (mainland China)

Wu: 冰淇淋 (¹pin-ji₆-lin₆), 冷飲 / 冷饮 (⁶lan-in)
Chuvash: сивлек (sivlek)
Crimean Tatar: dondurma
Cornish: dehen rew m
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: (Quebec) 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
Hawaiian: haukalima
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), rumes (obsolete)
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 (balmūzdaq)
Khmer: ការ៉េម (kaareem)
Komi-Zyrian: лымвый (lymvyj)
Korean: 아이스크림 (ko) (aiseukeurim), 에스키모 (eseukimo) (genericized trademark, North Korea), 까까오 (kkakkao) (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 (mk) 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 (ejnä)
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 (āiskrima)
Ottoman Turkish: طوڭدرمه (doñdurma)
Pannonian Rusyn: сладоляд m (sladoljad)
Pashto: سړوپۍ f (saṛopǝy), شېريخ m (širyax)
Persian:
Dari: شِیرْیَخ (šīryax), آیْس کِرِیم (āys kirīm)

Iranian Persian: بَسْتَنی (bastani)
Plautdietsch: Iessschmaunt m
Pohnpeian: aiskurihm
Polish: lody (pl) nvir
Portuguese: (Portugal) gelado (pt) m, (Brazil) sorvete (pt) m
Punjabi: ਆਈਸ ਕਰੀਮ f (āīsa karīm)
Romanian: înghețată (ro) f
Romansch: glatsch m
Russian: моро́женое (ru) n (moróženoje)
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 (si) (ayis krīm)
Slovak: zmrzlina f
Slovene: sladolẹ̑d (sl) m
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: zmarzlina f

Upper Sorbian: zmjerzlina f
Sotho: aesekerimi
Southern Altai: тоҥдырма (toŋdïrma)
Spanish: helado (es) m, (Mexico) nieve (es), sorbete (es) m (El Salvador)
Swahili: aiskrimu
Swedish: glass (sv) c
Sylheti: ꠀꠁꠍꠇꠤꠞꠤꠝ (aisókirim)
Tagalog: sorbetes (tl), ayskrim
Tajik: яхмос (tg) (yaxmos), бастанӣ (bastani)
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 (uk) 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)
Winnebago: nųųxgisu
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 (mk) m (sladoled)
Polish: lód (pl) m, lód w rożku m (in a cone), lód na patyku m (on a stick)
Portuguese: casquinha f (Brazil)
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)

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Translations to be checked

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