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zabaglione

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.

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Pronunciation

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  • UK: /ˌzæbəˈljəʊni/
  • UK: /ˌzɑbɑˈljəʊni/
  • US: /ˌzɑbəlˈjoʊni/
  • rhymes with -əʊni

1

noun

Meaning 1

A custard-like dessert made with egg yolks, sugar and Marsala wine.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: sabayon

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

light foamy custard-like dessert served hot or chilled

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: sabayon

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: dessert, sweet, afters

History

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian zabaglione, zabaione, possibly from Latin sabaia (“Illyrian barley beer”) (from an Illyrian word probably from Proto-Indo-European *sab- (“taste”)) + -one (augmentative suffix).

Across languages

Translations

39 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Arabic: سَابَايُونِي (sabayūnī) — custard-like dessert made with egg yolks, sugar and Marsala wine
  • Armenian: սաբայոն (sabayon) — custard-like dessert made with egg yolks, sugar and Marsala wine
  • Catalan: crema sabaiona — custard-like dessert made with egg yolks, sugar and Marsala wine
  • Chinese Mandarin: 薩巴里安尼 (sàbālǐ'ānní) — custard-like dessert made with egg yolks, sugar and Marsala wine
  • Cimbrian: gaslòttarne òjar — custard-like dessert made with egg yolks, sugar and Marsala wine
  • Dutch: zabaglione — custard-like dessert made with egg yolks, sugar and Marsala wine
  • Dutch: sabayon — custard-like dessert made with egg yolks, sugar and Marsala wine
  • Esperanto: zabajono — custard-like dessert made with egg yolks, sugar and Marsala wine
  • Finnish: zabaglione — custard-like dessert made with egg yolks, sugar and Marsala wine
  • French: sabayon — custard-like dessert made with egg yolks, sugar and Marsala wine
  • French: zambajon — custard-like dessert made with egg yolks, sugar and Marsala wine
  • German: Zabaione — custard-like dessert made with egg yolks, sugar and Marsala wine
  • German: Zabaglione — custard-like dessert made with egg yolks, sugar and Marsala wine
  • German: Sabayon — custard-like dessert made with egg yolks, sugar and Marsala wine
  • Greek: ζαμπαγιόνε (zampagióne) — custard-like dessert made with egg yolks, sugar and Marsala wine
  • Hebrew: זביונה (zabayóne) — custard-like dessert made with egg yolks, sugar and Marsala wine
  • Italian: zabaione — custard-like dessert made with egg yolks, sugar and Marsala wine
  • Italian: zabaglione — custard-like dessert made with egg yolks, sugar and Marsala wine
  • Italian: zabajone — custard-like dessert made with egg yolks, sugar and Marsala wine
  • Japanese: ザバイオーネ (zabaiōne) — custard-like dessert made with egg yolks, sugar and Marsala wine
  • Japanese: ザバイヨーネ (zabaiyōne) — custard-like dessert made with egg yolks, sugar and Marsala wine
  • Japanese: ザバリョーネ (zabaryōne) — custard-like dessert made with egg yolks, sugar and Marsala wine
  • Japanese: サバイヨン (sabaiyon) — custard-like dessert made with egg yolks, sugar and Marsala wine
  • Korean: 지바이요네 (jibaiyone) — custard-like dessert made with egg yolks, sugar and Marsala wine
  • Piedmontese: sambajon — custard-like dessert made with egg yolks, sugar and Marsala wine
  • Polish: zabaglione — custard-like dessert made with egg yolks, sugar and Marsala wine
  • Polish: zabaione — custard-like dessert made with egg yolks, sugar and Marsala wine
  • Polish: zabajone — custard-like dessert made with egg yolks, sugar and Marsala wine
  • Portuguese: zabaione — custard-like dessert made with egg yolks, sugar and Marsala wine
  • Portuguese: zabaglione — custard-like dessert made with egg yolks, sugar and Marsala wine
  • Russian: сабайо́н (sabajón) — custard-like dessert made with egg yolks, sugar and Marsala wine
  • Sardinian: sambajoni — custard-like dessert made with egg yolks, sugar and Marsala wine
  • Sardinian: sambajone — custard-like dessert made with egg yolks, sugar and Marsala wine
  • Serbo-Croatian: забајо̑не — custard-like dessert made with egg yolks, sugar and Marsala wine
  • Serbo-Croatian: zabajȏne — custard-like dessert made with egg yolks, sugar and Marsala wine
  • Sicilian: zabaioni — custard-like dessert made with egg yolks, sugar and Marsala wine
  • Spanish: zabaione — custard-like dessert made with egg yolks, sugar and Marsala wine
  • Swedish: zabaione — custard-like dessert made with egg yolks, sugar and Marsala wine
  • Ukrainian: сабайо́н (sabajón) — custard-like dessert made with egg yolks, sugar and Marsala wine