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tiramisu

noun · 2 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

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  • UK: /ˌtɪɹəmɪˈsuː/
  • Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • US: /ˌtɪɹəˈmisu/
  • US: /ˌtɪɹəmɪˈsu/
  • US: /ˌtɝəməˈsu/
  • rhymes with -uː
  • CMU ARPABET: T IH2 R AH0 M IH1 S UW2 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

noun

Meaning 1

An Italian semifreddo dessert, originally from Veneto, made from ladyfinger biscuits, cocoa, mascarpone cheese, Marsala wine, eggs (or sometimes cream), sugar and espresso coffee.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

an Italian dessert consisting of layers of sponge cake soaked with coffee and brandy or liqueur layered with mascarpone cheese and topped with grated chocolate

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: dessert, sweet, afters

History

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian tiramisù (literally “pick-me-up”).

Across languages

Translations

64 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Arabic: تِيرَامِيسُو (tīrāmīsū) — semifreddo dessert
  • Armenian: տիրամիսու (tiramisu) — semifreddo dessert
  • Asturian: tiramisú — semifreddo dessert
  • Azerbaijani: tiramisu — semifreddo dessert
  • Belarusian: тырамісу́ (tyramisú) — semifreddo dessert
  • Bengali: তিরামিসু (tiramiśu) — semifreddo dessert
  • Breton: tiramisu — semifreddo dessert
  • Bulgarian: тирамису́ (tiramisú) — semifreddo dessert
  • Catalan: tiramisú — semifreddo dessert
  • Chinese Cantonese: 意大利芝士餅 /意大利芝士饼 — semifreddo dessert
  • Chinese Cantonese: 意大利芝士蛋糕 — semifreddo dessert
  • Chinese Mandarin: 提拉米蘇 /提拉米苏 (tílāmǐsū) — semifreddo dessert
  • Chinese Mandarin: 隄拉米蘇 /隄拉米苏 (tílāmǐsū) — semifreddo dessert
  • Czech: tiramisu — semifreddo dessert
  • Danish: tiramisu — semifreddo dessert
  • Dutch: tiramisu — semifreddo dessert
  • Esperanto: tiramisu — semifreddo dessert
  • Estonian: tiramisu — semifreddo dessert
  • Finnish: tiramisu — semifreddo dessert
  • French: tiramisu — semifreddo dessert
  • Galician: tiramisú — semifreddo dessert
  • Georgian: ტირამისუ (ṭiramisu) — semifreddo dessert
  • German: Tiramisu — semifreddo dessert
  • Bavarian German: Tiramisu — semifreddo dessert
  • Greek: τιραμισού (tiramisoú) — semifreddo dessert
  • Hebrew: טִירָמִיסוּ (tiramisú) — semifreddo dessert
  • Hungarian: tiramisu — semifreddo dessert
  • Icelandic: tíramísú — semifreddo dessert
  • Indonesian: tiramisu — semifreddo dessert
  • Italian: tiramisù — semifreddo dessert
  • Japanese: ティラミス (tiramisu) — semifreddo dessert
  • Javanese: tiramisu — semifreddo dessert
  • Kazakh: тирамису (tiramisu) — semifreddo dessert
  • Khmer: ទីរ៉ាមីស៊ូ (tiiraamiisuu) — semifreddo dessert
  • Korean: 티라미수 (tiramisu) — semifreddo dessert
  • Lao: ຕີຣາມີຊູ (tī rā mī sū) — semifreddo dessert
  • Lithuanian: tirami̇̀sas — semifreddo dessert
  • Lithuanian: tiramisù — semifreddo dessert
  • Luxembourgish: Tiramisu — semifreddo dessert
  • Macedonian: тирамису (tiramisu) — semifreddo dessert
  • Malay: tiramisu — semifreddo dessert
  • Neapolitan: tiramisù — semifreddo dessert
  • Norwegian: tiramisu — semifreddo dessert
  • Norwegian: tiramisù — semifreddo dessert
  • Persian: تیرامیسو (tirâmisu) — semifreddo dessert
  • Polish: tiramisu — semifreddo dessert
  • Portuguese: tiramisu — semifreddo dessert
  • Portuguese: tiramissu — semifreddo dessert
  • Romanian: tiramisu — semifreddo dessert
  • Russian: тирамису́ (tiramisú) — semifreddo dessert
  • Serbo-Croatian: тирамису̏ — semifreddo dessert
  • Serbo-Croatian: tiramisȕ — semifreddo dessert
  • Sicilian: tiramisù — semifreddo dessert
  • Slovak: tiramisu — semifreddo dessert
  • Slovak: tiramisú — semifreddo dessert
  • Slovene: tiramisu — semifreddo dessert
  • Spanish: tiramisú — semifreddo dessert
  • Swedish: tiramisu — semifreddo dessert
  • Tagalog: tiramisu — semifreddo dessert
  • Thai: ตีรามีซู (dtii-raa-mii-suu) — semifreddo dessert
  • Turkish: tiramisu — semifreddo dessert
  • Ukrainian: тирамісу́ (tyramisú) — semifreddo dessert
  • Venetan: tiramesù — semifreddo dessert
  • Vietnamese: tiramisu — semifreddo dessert