Vanille

See also: vanille and vanillé

German

Etymology

Ca. 1700, borrowed from French vanille, from Spanish vainilla. The pronunciation with /lj/ reflects the older French /ʎ/; that with /l/ is a spelling pronunciation.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vaˈnɪlə/, (less often) /vaˈnɪljə/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ɪlə, -ɪljə
• Hyphenation: Va‧nil‧le

Noun

Vanille f (genitive Vanille, no plural)

1. (botany) vanilla

Declension

Declension of Vanille [sg-only, feminine]

	singular
	indef.	def.	noun
nominative	eine	die	Vanille
genitive	einer	der	Vanille
dative	einer	der	Vanille
accusative	eine	die	Vanille

Hyponyms

• Echte Vanille
• Gewürzvanille
• Guadeloupe-Vanille
• Tahiti-Vanille

Derived terms

• Vanillearoma
• Vanillecreme
• Vanilleduft
• Vanilleeis
• Vanilleextrakt
• Vanillefrappee
• Vanillegeruch
• Vanillegeschmack
• Vanillejogurt
• Vanillemilch
• Vanilleparfüm
• Vanillepudding
• Vanillepuddingpulver
• Vanillesauce
• Vanilleschote
• Vanillesoße
• Vanillesoßenpulver
• Vanillestange
• Vanilletee
• Vanillezucker
• Vanillin
• Vanillinzucker

 

Further reading

• “Vanille” in Duden online
• “Vanille” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• Vanille on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^de