crumble

Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.

• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈkɹʌmbəl/
  Play
• US: /ˈkɹʌmbəl/
  Play
• US: [ˈkɹʌmbɪ̈l]
  Play
• US: [ˈkɹʌmbl̩]
  Play
• US: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  Play
• Northern-England: /ˈkɹʊmbəl/
  Play
• Scotland, Wales: /ˈkɾʌmbəl/
  Play
• rhymes with -ʌmbəl
  Play
• CMU ARPABET: K R AH1 M B AH0 L Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
  Play

From earlier crymble, crimble, from Middle English *crymblen, kremelen, from Old English *crymlan (“to crumble”), from *crymel (“a small crumb; crumble”), diminutive of Old English cruma (“crumb”), equivalent to crumb + -le (diminutive suffix). Compare Dutch kruimelen (“to crumble”), German Low German krömmeln (“to crumble”), German Krümel, diminutive of German Krume, German krümeln, krümmeln (“to crumble”). Alteration of vowel due to analogy with crumb.

124 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• French: crumble — dessert
• French: croustade — dessert
• German: Crumble — dessert
• Spanish: crumble — dessert
• Swedish: crumble — dessert
• Swedish: smulpaj — dessert
• Zazaki: sirane — dessert
• Bulgarian: разпадам се (razpadam se) — to fall apart
• Bulgarian: раздробявам се (razdrobjavam se) — to fall apart
• Catalan: esmicolar-se (most common fer-se miques) — to fall apart
• Catalan: desmoronar-se — to fall apart
• Catalan: derrumbar-se — to fall apart
• Chinese Mandarin: 崩溃 (bēngkuì) — to fall apart
• Crimean Tatar: ufatmaq — to fall apart
• Czech: drobit se — to fall apart
• Czech: drolit se — to fall apart
• Danish: forvitre — to fall apart
• Danish: smuldre — to fall apart
• Danish: hensmuldre — to fall apart
• Dutch: uit elkaar vallen — to fall apart
• Dutch: verbrokkelen — to fall apart
• Dutch: verkruimelen — to fall apart
• Esperanto: disfali — to fall apart
• Esperanto: diseriĝi — to fall apart
• Esperanto: kolapsi — to fall apart
• Finnish: murentua — to fall apart
• Finnish: murtua — to fall apart
• French: s'effondrer — to fall apart
• Galician: esfarelar — to fall apart
• Galician: esboroar — to fall apart
• German: bröckeln — to fall apart
• German: zerbröckeln — to fall apart
• German: zerkrümeln — to fall apart
• Ancient Greek: ψάω (psáō) — to fall apart
• Hebrew: התפרק (hitparék) — to fall apart
• Hebrew: התפורר (hitporér) — to fall apart
• Hungarian: széthullik — to fall apart
• Hungarian: szétporlad — to fall apart
• Hungarian: szertefoszlik — to fall apart
• Hungarian: szétmállik — to fall apart
• Hungarian: omladozik — to fall apart
• Hungarian: összeomlik — to fall apart
• Hungarian: összedől — to fall apart
• Hungarian: mállik — to fall apart
• Hungarian: omlik — to fall apart
• Hungarian: hull — to fall apart
• Hungarian: porlad — to fall apart
• Hungarian: foszlik — to fall apart
• Italian: sgretolarsi — to fall apart
• Italian: crollare — to fall apart
• Italian: ridursi in polvere — to fall apart
• Japanese: 崩れる (kuzureru) — to fall apart
• Khmer: ស្រុត (srot) — to fall apart
• Low German: utenannerfallen — to fall apart
• Low German: uteneenfallen — to fall apart
• Low German: vuneenfallen — to fall apart
• Māori: ngawhere — to fall apart
• Māori: tāorooro — to fall apart
• Māori: ngāhorohoro — to fall apart
• Nepali: टुक्रिनु (ṭukrinu) — to fall apart
• Norwegian: falle i grus — to fall apart
• Polish: kruszyć — to fall apart
• Polish: pokruszyć — to fall apart
• Portuguese: desmoronar — to fall apart
• Russian: кроши́ться (krošítʹsja) — to fall apart
• Russian: раскроши́ться (raskrošítʹsja) — to fall apart
• Russian: рассыпа́ться (rassypátʹsja) — to fall apart
• Russian: рассы́паться (rassýpatʹsja) — to fall apart
• Spanish: desmigajarse — to fall apart
• Spanish: desmoronarse — to fall apart
• Spanish: desmenuzarse — to fall apart
• Ottoman Turkish: پارچهلانمق (parçalanmak) — to fall apart
• Ukrainian: розсипа́тися (rozsypátysja) — to fall apart
• Ukrainian: розси́патися (rozsýpatysja) — to fall apart
• Ukrainian: криши́тися (kryšýtysja) — to fall apart
• Ukrainian: розкри́шуватися (rozkrýšuvatysja) — to fall apart
• Ukrainian: розкриши́тися (rozkryšýtysja) — to fall apart
• Volapük: dädiledikön — to fall apart
• Armenian: բրդել (brdel) — to render into crumbs
• Aromanian: dinjic — to render into crumbs
• Bulgarian: роня (ronja) — to render into crumbs
• Bulgarian: троша (troša) — to render into crumbs
• Chinese Mandarin: 碎裂 (suìliè) — to render into crumbs
• Czech: drobit — to render into crumbs
• Czech: drolit — to render into crumbs
• Danish: smuldre — to render into crumbs
• Dutch: verkruimelen — to render into crumbs
• Esperanto: diserigi — to render into crumbs
• Esperanto: pulvorigi — to render into crumbs
• Finnish: murentaa — to render into crumbs
• Finnish: murentua — to render into crumbs
• Finnish: murustaa — to render into crumbs
• French: effriter — to render into crumbs
• French: émietter — to render into crumbs
• Galician: esfaragullar — to render into crumbs
• Galician: esfarelar — to render into crumbs
• Galician: esmigallar — to render into crumbs
• Galician: derrafar — to render into crumbs
• Galician: entrillar — to render into crumbs
• German: krümeln — to render into crumbs
• German: zerkrümeln — to render into crumbs
• Hebrew: פורר (porér) — to render into crumbs
• Hungarian: morzsol — to render into crumbs
• Hungarian: szétmorzsol — to render into crumbs
• Hungarian: elmorzsol — to render into crumbs
• Italian: sbriciolare — to render into crumbs
• Italian: sbriciolarsi — to render into crumbs
• Japanese: 崩す (kuzusu) — to render into crumbs
• Latin: friō — to render into crumbs
• Norwegian: smuldre — to render into crumbs
• Portuguese: despedaçar — to render into crumbs
• Portuguese: esfarelar — to render into crumbs
• Romanian: dumica — to render into crumbs
• Russian: кроши́ть (krošítʹ) — to render into crumbs
• Russian: раскроши́ть (raskrošítʹ) — to render into crumbs
• Spanish: desmigajar — to render into crumbs
• Spanish: desmenuzar — to render into crumbs
• Ukrainian: криши́ти (kryšýty) — to render into crumbs
• Ukrainian: розкри́шувати (rozkrýšuvaty) — to render into crumbs
• Ukrainian: розкриши́ти (rozkryšýty) — to render into crumbs
• Volapük: dädiledükön — to render into crumbs
• Zazaki: rocnayen — to render into crumbs
• Italian: sabbiare — to mix forming crumbs
• Zazaki: têvden — to mix forming crumbs