dessert

dessert

See also: desert, dêssèrt, and Dessert

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French dessert, from desservir (“disserve”), from dés- (“dis-”) and servir (“serve”), thus literally meaning “removal of what has been served”.

Note: It was erroneously suggested (e.g. in "Glucose syrups: Technology and Applications" (Peter Hull, 2010)) that the word is derived from the name of Benjamin Delessert, the inventor of beet sugar. However, the term predates him by at least a century.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /dɪˈzɜːt/
• (US) enPR: dĭ-zûrt, IPA^(key): /dɪˈzɝt/

• Audio (US)

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• Homophone: desert (verb)
• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)t

Noun

dessert (countable and uncountable, plural desserts)

1. The last course of a meal, consisting of fruit, sweet confections etc.

   I ordered hummus for a starter, a steak as the main course, and chocolate cake for dessert.

   Can I see the dessert menu, please?

2. A sweet dish or confection served as the last course of a meal.

   Trifle is a favourite dessert of the English, but rivalled by pavlova in Australia and New Zealand.

Synonyms

• (sweet final course of a meal): afters (UK informal), pudding (UK), sweet (UK)

Derived terms

• dessert bar
• dessert grape
• dessertless
• dessertlike
• dessert spoon
• dessert wine
• desserty
• nondessert
• predessert

 

Descendants

• → Japanese: デザート (dezāto)

Translations

sweet confection served as the last course of a meal

Albanian: ëmbëlsirë (sq) f Arabic: حَلْوَى‎ f (ḥalwā), حَلْوَيَات‎ (ar) f pl (ḥalwayāt), تَحْلِيَة‎ f (taḥliya) Armenian: աղանդեր (hy) (ałander), դեսերտ (hy) (desert) Azerbaijani: desert (az), çərəz (az) Belarusian: дэсе́рт m (desjért), дэсэ́рт m (desért) (Taraškievica), сало́дкае n (salódkaje) Bengali: ডেজার্ট (ḍejarṭô) Bulgarian: десе́рт (bg) m (desért) Burmese: အချို (my) (a.hkyui), အချိုပွဲ (my) (a.hkyui-pwai:) Catalan: postres (ca) f pl, darreries (ca) f pl Chinese: Mandarin: 點心／点心 (zh) (diǎnxīn), 餐後甜點／餐后甜点 (cānhòu tiándiǎn), 甜食 (zh) (tiánshí), 甜點／甜点 (zh) (tiándiǎn), (Western) 西點／西点 (zh) (xīdiǎn) Czech: zákusek m, dezert m Danish: dessert (da) c Dutch: dessert (nl) n, nagerecht (nl) n, toetje (nl) n Esperanto: postmanĝaĵo Estonian: magustoit, dessert (et) Finnish: jälkiruoka (fi) French: dessert (fr) m Galician: postre m, lamberete m Georgian: დესერტი (deserṭi) German: Nachtisch (de) m, Nachspeise (de) f, Dessert (de) n Greek: γλυκό (el) n (glykó) Ancient: τράγημα n (trágēma) Haitian Creole: desè Hawaiian: monamona Hebrew: קינוח \\ קִנּוּחַ‎ (he) m (kinuakh) Hindi: मिठाई (hi) f (miṭhāī), हलवा (hi) m (halvā), डेज़र्ट (ḍezarṭ) Hungarian: desszert (hu) Hunsrik: Nohdisch m Icelandic: eftirréttur m Ido: desero (io) Indonesian: disert, pencuci mulut (id) Irish: milseog (ga) f Italian: dolce (it) m, dessert (it) m Japanese: (general) デザート (ja) (dezāto); (only for a sweet one) スイーツ (ja) (suītsu) Kazakh: десерт (kk) (desert) Khmer: បង្អែម (km) (bɑngʼaem) Korean: 후식(後食) (ko) (husik), 디저트 (ko) (dijeoteu) Kurdish: Northern Kurdish: şîranî (ku) Kyrgyz: десерт (ky) (desert) Lao: ຂອງຫວານ (khǭng wān) Latin: bellaria n pl, secunda mensa f Latvian: deserts m, saldais ēdiens Lithuanian: desertas m Luxembourgish: Dessert m Macedonian: десерт m (desert) Malay: pencuci mulut Maori: purini, towhiro Mongolian: амттан (mn) (amttan) Norman: dêssèrt m Norwegian: dessert (no) Persian: دسر‎ (fa) (deser) Plautdietsch: Läpelkost f Polish: deser (pl) m Portuguese: sobremesa (pt) Romanian: desert (ro) n Russian: десе́рт (ru) m (desért), сла́дкое (ru) n (sládkoje) Scottish Gaelic: mìlsean m, mìlse f Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: посластица f, сластица f, слатко n, дезерт m Roman: poslastica (sh) f, slastica (sh) f, slatko (sh) n, dezert (sh) m Slovak: dezert (sk) m Slovene: sladica f Spanish: dulce (es) m, postre (es) m Swedish: efterrätt (sv) c Tagalog: panghimagas Tajik: десерт (desert) Thai: อาหารหวาน (th) (aa-hǎan-wǎan), ขนม (th) (kà-nǒm), ของหวาน (th) (kɔ̌ɔng-wǎan) Turkish: tatlı (tr) Turkmen: desert Ukrainian: десе́рт m (desért), соло́дке n (solódke) Urdu: میٹھائی‎ f (miṭhāī) Uzbek: desert (uz) Vietnamese: tráng miệng (vi) Volapük: poszib (vo) Welsh: melysfwyd (cy) m, pwdin (cy) m (informal) Yiddish: פֿאַרבײַסן‎ n (farbaysn), דעסערט‎ m (desert) Zazaki: şirane (diq) m

Anagrams

• deserts, tressed

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Danish

Etymology

From French dessert, from desservir (“disserve”), from dés- (“dis-”) and servir (“serve”).

Noun

dessert c (singular definite desserten, plural indefinite desserter)

1. dessert

Inflection

Declension of dessert

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	dessert	desserten	desserter	desserterne
genitive	desserts	dessertens	desserters	desserternes

Further reading

• “dessert” in Den Danske Ordbog

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Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French dessert, from desservir (“disserve”), from dés- (“dis-”) and servir (“serve”), thus literally meaning “removal of what has been served”.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dɛˈsɛr/, /dɛˈsɛrt/

• audio

  (file)

• Hyphenation: des‧sert
• Rhymes: -ɛr, -ɛrt

Noun

dessert n (plural desserten or desserts, diminutive dessertje n)

1. A dessert.

   Synonyms: nagerecht, naspijs, toespijs, toetje

Derived terms

• dessertkaart

Descendants

• Afrikaans: dessert

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Estonian

Etymology

German Dessert.

Noun

dessert (genitive desserdi, partitive desserti)

1. dessert

Declension

Declension of dessert (type riik)

	singular	plural
nominative	dessert	desserdid
genitive	desserdi	dessertide
partitive	desserti	desserte / dessertisid
illative	desserti / desserdisse	dessertidesse / desserdesse
inessive	desserdis	dessertides / desserdes
elative	desserdist	dessertidest / desserdest
allative	desserdile	dessertidele / desserdele
adessive	desserdil	dessertidel / desserdel
ablative	desserdilt	dessertidelt / desserdelt
translative	desserdiks	dessertideks / desserdeks
terminative	desserdini	dessertideni
essive	desserdina	dessertidena
abessive	desserdita	dessertideta
comitative	desserdiga	dessertidega

Synonyms

• magustoit

Further reading

• dessert in Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat
• dessert in Sõnaveeb

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French

Etymology

From Middle French dessert, from desservir (“disserve”), from dés- (“dis-”) +‎ servir (“serve”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /de.sɛʁ/

• audio

  (file)

Noun

dessert m (plural desserts)

1. dessert, pudding

Derived terms

• cuillère à dessert

Descendants

• → Czech: dezert
• → Danish: dessert
• → Dutch: dessert (see there for further descendants)
• → English: dessert (see there for further descendants)
• → German: Dessert (see there for further descendants)
• → Norwegian Bokmål: dessert
• → Norwegian Nynorsk: dessert
• → Persian: دسر‎ (deser)
• → Polish: deser

Verb

dessert

1. third-person singular present indicative of desservir

Further reading

• “dessert”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• déserts

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Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From French dessert.

Noun

dessert m (definite singular desserten, indefinite plural desserter, definite plural dessertene)

1. dessert

References

• “dessert” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From French dessert.

Noun

dessert m (definite singular desserten, indefinite plural dessertar, definite plural dessertane)

1. dessert

References

• “dessert” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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Romansch

Noun

dessert m (plural desserts)

1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Surmiran, Puter, Vallader) dessert

Synonyms

• (Sutsilvan) dultsch

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West Frisian

Etymology

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Noun

dessert n (plural desserts, diminutive dessertsje)

1. dessert

Further reading

• “dessert”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011