dulce de leche

English

Etymology

From Spanish dulce de leche (literally “milk sweet”). Compare dolcelatte.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˌdulseɪ də ˈlɛtʃeɪ/, /ˌdʌlseɪ də ˈlɛtʃeɪ/

Noun

dulce de leche (uncountable)

1. A South American sweet spread made from sugar and boiled milk.
   • 2023 May 24, Ligaya Mishan, “The Shortcut to Homemade Milk Candy”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN:

     Unlike dulce de leche, in which milk is cooked down with sugar until it thickens into gold, the milk stays white here — burfi comes from the Persian word for snow — for a purer flavor.

Translations

sweet dairy spread

• Catalan: almívar de llet m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 甜奶布丁 (tián nǎi bù dīng)

• Esperanto: karamelkremo, laktokaramelo
• Finnish: kinuski (fi) (very similar but technically different), dulce de leche
• French: confiture de lait (fr) f
• Hebrew: רִבַּת חָלָב (he) f (ribát khaláv)
• Italian: dolce di latte m
• Japanese: ドゥルセ・デ・レチェ (duruse de reche), ドルセ・デ・レチェ (doruse de reche), デルセ・デ・リッチ (deruse de ritchi)
• Korean: 둘세데레체 (dulsedereche)
• Polish: kajmak (pl) m
• Portuguese: doce de leite (pt) m
• Spanish: dulce de leche (es) m, (Chile, El Salvador, Panama, Peru) manjar blanco m, manjar (es) m, (El Salvador) leche poleada f, (Colombia, Venezuela) arequipe m, (Spain) natillas (es) f pl
• Swedish: dulce de leche (sv)

References

• “dulce de leche”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Further reading

• dulce de leche on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Spanish

Etymology

Literally, “milk sweet”.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /ˌdulθe de ˈlet͡ʃe/ [ˌd̪ul̟.θe ð̞e ˈle.t͡ʃe]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /ˌdulse de ˈlet͡ʃe/ [ˌd̪ul.se ð̞e ˈle.t͡ʃe]
• Syllabification: dul‧ce de le‧che

Noun

dulce de leche m (plural dulces de leche)

1. (usually uncountable) dulce de leche

   Synonyms: manjar blanco, (South America, especially Chile, Peru, Panama, and El Salvador) manjar, (El Salvador) leche poleada, (Colombia, Venezuela) arequipe, (Spain) natillas, (México) cajeta, (abbreviation) DDL

Further reading

• “dulce de leche”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10