schnapps

schnapps

English

Etymology

Borrowed from German Schnaps.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ʃnɑps/, /ʃnæps/

  Rhymes: -æps

Noun

schnapps (usually uncountable, plural schnappses)

1. (uncountable) A type of distilled alcoholic beverage, often with a herbal or fruit flavoring, typically drunk neat as apéritif or digestif.
2. (countable) A serving of this beverage.

Translations

liquor

Danish: snaps (da) Faroese: snapsur m Finnish: snapsi (fi), viina (fi) French: schnaps (fr) m, eau-de-vie (fr) f German: Schnaps (de) m (not specific, can mean any spirit) Italian: acquavite (it) f, grappa (it) f Japanese: シュナップス (shunappusu) Maori: napi Norwegian: Bokmål: snaps m Nynorsk: snaps m

Portuguese: schnaps m, schnapps m Russian: шнапс (ru) m (šnaps) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: шнапс m Roman: šnaps (sh) m Swedish: snaps (sv) c Ukrainian: шнапс m (šnaps) Vietnamese: rượu sơnap

serving

Finnish: snapsi (fi), ruokaryyppy (fi)

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Portuguese

Noun

schnapps m (plural schnapps)

1. Alternative spelling of schnaps