éclair

See also: eclair and Eclair

English

Alternative forms

• eclair

Etymology

Borrowed from French éclair.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɪˈklɛə/, /eɪ-/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ɪˈklɛɹ/
• Rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)

Noun

éclair (plural éclairs)

1. A small chocolate-covered creme-filled pastry puff in a general oblong shape, typically larger than the miniature French version.

Translations

oblong, chocolate-covered, cream-filled pastry

• Arabic: إِكْلِير m (ʔiklīr)

  Hijazi Arabic: إكلير m (iklēr)

• Armenian: էկլեր (hy) (ēkler)
• Azerbaijani: ekler
• Belarusian: эклер m (ekljer)
• Bulgarian: еклер (bg) m (ekler)
• Dutch: eclair (nl)
• Estonian: ekläär (et)
• Finnish: eclair, tuulihattu (fi)
• French: éclair (fr) m
• German: Eclair (de) n, Liebesknochen m, Hasenpfote (de) f
• Greek: εκλέρ (el) n (eklér)
• Hindi: एक्लेयर m (ekleyar)
• Italian: éclair m
• Japanese: エクレア (ja) (ekurea), エクレール (ekurēru)
• Kazakh: эклер (ékler)
• Macedonian: еклер f (ekler)
• Persian: اکلر (ekler)
• Polish: ekler (pl) m, eklerka (pl) f, eklerek m
• Portuguese: ecler (pt) m
• Romanian: ecler (ro) n
• Russian: экле́р (ru) m (eklér)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: еклер m

  Latin: ekler (sh) m

• Spanish: éclair m
• Swedish: éclair (sv)
• Turkish: ekler (tr)
• Uzbek: ekler
• Yidish: עקלער m (ekler)

Anagrams

• Carlie, Claire, claire, lacier

French

Etymology

Deverbal from éclairer.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /e.klɛʁ/

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

éclair m (plural éclairs)

éclairs (sense 4) au chocolat

1. lightning bolt
2. flash
3. sparkle
5. éclair (pastry)

   éclair au café ― coffee éclair

   éclair au chocolat ― chocolate éclair

Derived terms

• éclair de génie
• fermeture éclair
• guerre-éclair
• rapide comme l’éclair

 

Descendants

• → Bulgarian: еклер (ekler)
• → Dutch: eclair
• → English: éclair
• → German: Eclair
• → Greek: εκλέρ (eklér), εκλαίρ n (eklaír)
• → Italian: éclair
• → Macedonian: еклер (ekler)
• → Polish: ekler
• → Portuguese: ecler
• → Romanian: ecler
• → Russian: экле́р (eklér)
• → Serbo-Croatian:
  • Cyrillic script: еклер
  • Latin script: ekler
• → Spanish: éclair
• → Swedish: éclair
• → Turkish: ekler

Adjective

éclair (invariable)

1. (postpositive, idiomatic) very fast
   • 1866, Victor Hugo, Correspondance : t. 2 : 1849-1866:

     Que je voudrais être, pour parler comme Saint-Simon, bombardé votant de Guernesey aux Quatre-Nations, le 23, crever le dôme de l’Institut et tomber au milieu de ces prunelles rondes, avec le vote-éclair : Jules Janin.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Further reading

• “éclair”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• claire, Claire

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from French éclair.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /eˈklɛr/

Noun

éclair m

1. éclair

Spanish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French éclair.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /eˈkleɾ/ [eˈkleɾ]

Noun

éclair m

1. éclair

Usage notes

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

Etymology

Borrowed from French éclair.

Noun

éclair c

1. éclair

Declension

Declension of éclair
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	éclair	éclairen	éclairer	éclairerna
Genitive	éclairs	éclairens	éclairers	éclairernas