pastry

English

almond pastries (1)

Etymology

From Middle English pastre, pastri, from pastree (variant of pasterie, from Old French pastaierie and Medieval Latin pasteria) or paste + -ri (modern paste +‎ -ry).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈpeɪstɹi/
Audio (US) (file)
Rhymes: -eɪstɹi

Noun

pastry (countable and uncountable, plural pastries)

(countable) A baked food item made from flour and fat pastes such as pie crust; also tarts, bear claws, napoleons, puff pastries, etc.
That pastry shop sells not just pastries, but all kinds of baked goods.
(uncountable) The food group formed by the various kinds of pastries.
That pastry shop sells not just pastry, but all kinds of baked goods.
(uncountable) The type of light flour-based dough used in pastries.
(countable, obsolete) A place where pastry is made.
- c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act IV, scene iv], line 2:
  They call for dates and quinces in the pastry.
(uncountable) The act or art of making pastry.
He learned pastry from the great Gaston Lenôtre.
(uncountable, culinary industry) Desserts of all kinds, whether or not these incorporate the baked item made from flour and fat, or that section of a kitchen that prepares these.
I used to work in the fish section, but now I've been moved to pastry.

Derived terms

pastry bag
pastry chef
pastry cook
pastry cream
pastry flour
pastryless
pastrylike
pastrymaker
pastrymaking
pastry shop
Pastry War
pastry wheel

Translations

food group

Armenian: թխվածք (hy) (tʿxvackʿ), խմորեղեն (hy) (xmorełen)
Belarusian: піро́г m (piróh)
Breton: kwignoù
Bulgarian: тестено изделие n (testeno izdelie), сладкиш m (sladkiš) (sweet pastry), сладки (bg) f pl (sladki) (sweet pastry), соленка f (solenka) (salty pastry)
Catalan: pastissos (ca)
Chinese:
Cantonese: 糕餅, 糕饼 (gou¹ beng²)
Mandarin: 糕點／糕点 (zh) (gāodiǎn), 點心／点心 (zh) (diǎnxin), 糕餅／糕饼 (zh) (gāobǐng)
Cornish: hogen f
Czech: pečivo (cs) n
Danish: bagværk (da) n
Dutch: gebak (nl) n, banket (nl) n
Esperanto: farunaĵo
Estonian: please add this translation if you can
Faroese: baksturvøra f
Finnish: leivos (fi), leivonnaiset, konditoriatuotteet
French: pâtisserie (fr) f
Galician: pastel m
Georgian: please add this translation if you can
German: Backwerk (de) n (pastry and bread), Gebäck (de) n (pastry and bread), Feingebäck (de) n
Greek: αρτοσκεύασμα (el) n (artoskévasma), γλύκισμα (el) n (glýkisma)
Hebrew: מאפה‎ (he) m (ma'afé)
Hungarian: sütemény (hu), cukrászsütemény (hu)
Icelandic: bakkelsi (is) n
Indonesian: kue (id)
Irish: taosrán m, pastae m
Italian: pasticceria (it) f, paste (it) pl
Japanese: 菓子 (ja) (かし, kashi), ペースト (ja) (pēsuto), ペーストリー (ja) (pēsutorī)
Korean: 페이스트리 (peiseuteuri), 빵과자 (ppanggwaja)
Lao: please add this translation if you can
Latin: crustum n, lucuns m, lucunculus m
Macedonian: печиво n (pečivo)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: bakverk (no) n
Persian: شیرینی‎ (fa)
Polish: pieczywo cukiernicze n, wypiek (pl) m (pastry and bread)
Portuguese: pastel (pt) m
Russian: вы́печка (ru) f (výpečka), мучны́е конди́терские изде́лия n pl (mučnýje kondíterskije izdélija)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: пе̏цӣво n
Roman: pȅcīvo (sh) n
Slovak: pečivo n
Spanish: pastel (es) m, pastelería (es) f
Swedish: bakverk (sv) n, bakelse (sv) c
Taos: pòstaléna
Turkish: hamur işi (tr)
Welsh: teisen (cy) f, cacen (cy) f

type of dough

Chinese:
Mandarin: 油酥面團／油酥面团 (yóusū miàntuán)
Cornish: past m
Finnish: torttutaikina, pullataikina (fi), murotaikina (fi)
German: Gebäckteig m
Hungarian: édes tészta
Italian: impasto (it) m
Korean: 페이스트리 반죽 (peiseuteuri banjuk)
Norman: pâte dé pâté f
Norwegian:
Bokmål: butterdeig m
Portuguese: please add this translation if you can
Spanish: please add this translation if you can
Welsh: toes (cy) m (uncooked), crwst m (uncooked)

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