English

Pronunciation

IPA: WEAE /aɪs/

Etymology

Old English is, iis , Anglo Saxon īs ; akin to Dutch ijs, German Eis, Old High German īs , Icelandic īss , Swedish is, Danish iis , and perhaps to English iron.

Noun

ice

1. water in frozen (solid) form.
2. (physics/astronomy) any frozen volatile chemical, such as ammonia or carbon dioxide.
3. Frozen dessert.
4. any substance having the apparence of ice.
5. (Slang) one or more diamonds.
6. (Slang)Crystal form of methamphetamines .

Translations

• Arabic: ثّلج
• Breton: skorn m
• Catalan: gel m
• Chinese: 冰
• Dutch: ijs n
• Ekspreso: glasio
• Esperanto: glacio
• Estonian: jää (1, 2)
• Finnish: jää (1, 2), jäädyke (3)
• French: glace f
• Frisian: iis n
• German: Eis n
• Indonesian: es
• Interlingua: glacie
• Italian: ghiaccio
• Japanese: 氷 (こおり , koori)
• Korean: 얼음 (eoreum)
• Latin: glacies f
• Latvian: ledus m
• Lithuanian: ledas m
• Norwegian: is
• Persian: یخ (yakh)
• Polish: lód m
• Portuguese: gelo
• Slovene: led m
• Spanish: hielo
• Swedish: is c
• Tagalog: yelo
• Volapük: glad

Related terms

• ice cube
• ice cream
• ice hockey
• ice pack
• ice pick

Verb

ice, icing, iced

1. cool with ice, as a beverage.
2. (Slang) murder
3. cover with icing (frosting made of sugar and milk or white of egg) to frost, as cakes, tarts, etc.

Translations

•  : jahutama (1); glasuurima (3)
• Finnish: jäädyttää (1); pistää kylmäksi (slang) (2), kuorruttaa (3)