croissant

Unadapted borrowing from French croissant (“crescent”), present participle of croître (“to grow”). Doublet of crescent.

• enPR: krə-säntʹ, krwa-säɴʹ , krwä-säɴʹ
• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈk(ɹ)wæsɒ̃/, /ˈk(ɹ)wʌsɒ̃/, /ˈk(ɹ)wɑːsɒ̃/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /kɹəˈsɑnt/, /k(ɹ)wɑˈsɑ̃/

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• (Canada) IPA^(key): /kɹəˈsɑnt/, /k(ɹ)waˈsɑ̃/, /kwə-/, /kɹə-/

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• (New Zealand) IPA^(key): /kɹɘˈsɔnt/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /kɹəˈsɔnt/
• Rhymes: (US, Canada) -ɑnt, (Australia, New Zealand) -ɔnt

croissant (plural croissants)

2. A flaky roll or pastry in a form of a crescent.

   Synonyms: crescent, crescent roll

   Hypernym: viennoiserie

   Hyponyms: kipfel, rogalik

• croissant on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• Carsonist, Crisantos, Nicastros, anticross, cast irons

Unadapted borrowing from French croissant.

• IPA^(key): /krwas̺an/
• Rhymes: -as̺an

croissant inan

1. croissant

• “croissant”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy], Euskaltzaindia

Unadapted borrowing from French croissant

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croissant m (plural croissants)

1. croissant

• croissanteria

Unadapted borrowing from French croissant

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croissant m inan

1. croissant

• croissant in Akademický slovník cizích slov, 1995, at prirucka.ujc.cas.cz

Dutch Wikipedia has an article on:

croissant

Wikipedia ^nl

Unadapted borrowing from French croissant, present participle of verb croître (“to grow”).

• IPA^(key): /krɑˈsɑnt/, /krɔˈsɑnt/, /krʋɑˈsɑnt/, ,

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• Hyphenation: crois‧sant
• Rhymes: -ɑnt

croissant m (plural croissants, diminutive croissantje n)

1. croissant

• chocoladecroissant
• kaascroissant

• → Indonesian: kroisan

Unadapted borrowing from French croissant, present participle of verb croître (“to grow”).

• IPA^(key): /kruaˈsã/ (approximating the French pronunciation more or less closely)
• IPA^(key): /ˈkroɑsɑːn/, (approximating the French pronunciation more or less closely)
• IPA^(key): /ˈkroi̯sːɑnt/, (following Finnish pronunciation rules)^[1]

croissant

1. Synonym of voisarvi

• “croissant”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02

French Wikipedia has an article on:

croissant

Wikipedia ^fr

Present participle of the verb croître (“to increase, to grow”). From Old French croisant, from earlier creissant, from Latin crēscentem, present active participle of crēscō (“to augment”).

• IPA^(key): /kʁwa.sɑ̃/

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croissant m (plural croissants)

1. crescent
2. croissant
3. crescent moon

   croissant de lune

4. (heraldry) crescent

• (croissant): croissandwich
• (crescent): Croissant fertile

• → English: croissant
• → German: Croissant
• → Italian: croissant
• → Malay: roti bulan sabit (calque)
• → Turkish: kruvasan

croissant (feminine croissante, masculine plural croissants, feminine plural croissantes)

1. increasing, augmenting

croissant

1. present participle of croître
2. present participle of croitre

• “croissant”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.

• castrions

Italian Wikipedia has an article on:

croissant

Wikipedia ^it

Unadapted borrowing from French croissant, present participle of verb croître (“to grow”). Doublet of crescente.

• IPA^(key): /krwasˈsan/
• Rhymes: -an

croissant m (usually invariable, plural croissants)

1. croissant

   Synonyms: brioche, cornetto

• contrassi, sanscrito, scontarsi, scornasti, stranisco, strascino, strascinò, troncassi

Norwegian Wikipedia has an article on:

croissant

Wikipedia ^no

Unadapted borrowing from French croissant.

croissant m (definite singular croissanten, indefinite plural croissanter, definite plural croissantene)

1. a croissant

• “croissant” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Unadapted borrowing from French croissant.

croissant m (definite singular croissanten, indefinite plural croissantar, definite plural croissantane)

1. a croissant

• "croissant" Lexin

Polish Wikipedia has an article on:

croissant

Wikipedia ^pl

Unadapted borrowing from French croissant.

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• Syllabification: croi‧ssant

croissant m animal

1. croissant (flaky roll or pastry in a form of a crescent)

   Synonym: (regional) rożek

   Hypernym: rogalik

• croissant in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• croissant in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• croissant in PWN's encyclopedia

Portuguese Wikipedia has an article on:

croissant

Wikipedia ^pt

• croassã

Unadapted borrowing from French croissant, present participle of verb croître (“to grow”). Doublet of crescente.

• Rhymes: -ɐ̃

croissant m (plural croissants)

1. (cooking) croissant (a flaky roll or pastry in a form of a crescent)

Unadapted borrowing from French croissant.

• IPA^(key): /kɾwaˈsan/
• Rhymes: -an

croissant m (plural croissants)

1. Alternative form of cruasán

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.

Swedish Wikipedia has an article on:

croissant

Wikipedia ^sv

Unadapted borrowing from French croissant, present participle of verb croître (“to grow”).

• IPA^(key): /krʊ.aˈsaŋ/

croissant c

1. croissant

• (dated) giffel