custard

See also: Custard

English

Etymology

Alteration of croustade.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈkʌs.təd/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈkʌs.tɚd/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -ʌstə(ɹ)d

Noun

custard (countable and uncountable, plural custards)

1. A type of sauce made from milk and eggs (and usually sugar, and sometimes vanilla or other flavourings) and thickened by heat, served hot poured over desserts, as a filling for some pies and cakes, or cold and solidified; also used as a base for some savoury dishes, such as quiches, or eaten as a stand-alone dessert; egg custard.
2. (by extension) A similar sauce made from milk and cornflour or custard powder (and usually sugar, and sometimes vanilla or other flavourings) and thickened by heat.

Holonyms

• trifle

Derived terms

• African custard apple
• all over the place like a mad woman's custard
• confectioner's custard
• cowardy custard
• cup custard
• custard apple
• custard arm
• custard brains
• custard cannon
• custard Christian
• custard-chucker
• custard coffin
• custard cream
• custard cup
• custard-cups
• custard glass
• custard launcher
• custard-pie
• custard pie
• custard powder
• custard slice
• custard tart
• custard wind
• custardy
• egg custard
• egg custard tart
• frozen custard
• fruit custard
• love custard
• turn to custard

 

Translations

sauce

• Afrikaans: vla
• Arabic: كَاسْتَرْد m (kāstard)
• Assamese: কাষ্টাৰ (kastar)
• Belarusian: заварны́ крэм m (zavarný krem)
• Bulgarian: крем караме́л m (krem karamél)
• Catalan: crema (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 吉士 (gat¹ si^6-2), 吉士醬／吉士酱 (gat¹ si^6-2 zoeng³) (custard sauce), 奶黃／奶黄 (naai⁵ wong⁴) (thick egg custard filling in Chinese steamed buns)

  Mandarin: 卡士達／卡士达 (kǎshìdá), 吉士 (zh) (jíshì), 奶油凍／奶油冻 (nǎiyóudòng), 乳蛋糕 (rǔdàngāo), 奶黃／奶黄 (nǎihuáng), 蛋羹 (dàngēng), 軟凍／软冻 (ruǎndòng), 牛奶沙司 (niúnǎi shāsī), 蛋漿／蛋浆 (zh) (dànjiāng), 蛋奶凍／蛋奶冻 (dànnǎidòng)

• Czech: pudink (cs) m
• Esperanto: kremaĵo, kustardo
• Finnish: maitokiisseli, vanukas (fi)
• French: crème anglaise (fr) f, crème pâtissière (fr) f, custard (fr) m
• Galician: crema (gl) f
• German: (when poured) Vanillesoße (de) f (usually does but need not contain vanilla); (when thick) Pudding (de) m, Creme (de) f, Puddingcreme f, Eiercreme f
• Hebrew: רַפְרֶפֶת (he) f (rafréfet), חֲבִיצָה (he) f (ḥavitzá)
• Hungarian: sodó (hu)
• Indonesian: kustar
• Irish: custard m
• Italian: crema pasticcera (it) f
• Japanese: カスタード (ja) (kasutādo)
• Korean: 커스터드 (keoseuteodeu)
• Latvian: olu krēms
• Malay: kastard
• Maori: kahetete, kātete
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: vaniljesaus m

  Nynorsk: vaniljesaus m

• Persian: کاستارد (kâstârd)
• Polish: custard (pl) m, sos angielski m
• Portuguese: creme inglês m
• Romanian: cremă (ro) f
• Russian: заварно́й крем (ru) m (zavarnój krem), ка́стард m (kástard)
• Spanish: crema pastelera (es) f, natilla
• Swedish: vaniljkräm (sv) c, vaniljsås (sv) c
• Ukrainian: заварни́й крем m (zavarnýj krem)
• Vietnamese: sữa trứng, kem sữa trứng, món sữa trứng
• Welsh: cwstard m
• Yiddish: קאָסטאַרד (kostard)

See also

• bavarois
• crème brûlée
• crème caramel
• cream puff
• custard winds
• floating island
• trifle
• panna cotta, pannacotta
• vanilla slice
• vla
• zabaglione

Irish

Etymology

Borrowed from English.

Noun

custard m (genitive singular custaird, nominative plural custaird)

1. custard

Declension

Declension of custard

First declension

Bare forms: Case Singular Plural Nominative custard custaird Vocative a chustaird a chustarda Genitive custaird custard Dative custard custaird

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Plural Nominative an custard na custaird Genitive an chustaird na gcustard Dative leis an gcustard don chustard leis na custaird

Derived terms

• custardúll, úll custaird (“custard apple”)
• flan custaird, toirtín custaird (“egg custard”)
• púdar custaird (“custard powder”)
• toirtín custaird (“custard tart”)

 

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
custard	chustard	gcustard
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “custard”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “custard”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “custard”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024