carrot cake
A sweet cake, often iced, containing grated carrotA sweet cake, often iced, containing grated carrot.
» Tom baked a carrot cake for dessert.
CK · Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FRMeaning
3 senses(countable, uncountable)A sweet cake, often iced, containing grated carrot.
Rüeblitorte, Carrot-Cake, Karottentorte
морковный кексmorkovnyj keks
(Singapore, countable, uncountable)Turnip cake; radish cake (a savoury cake containing radish, usually pan-fried).
(Singapore, countable, uncountable)Synonym of chai tow kway (“a dish of stir-fried radish cakes and eggs”).
Examples
4 sentencesTom baked a carrot cake for dessert.
I crave a slice of moist carrot cake.
We are baking carrot cake.
deWir backen einen Möhrenkuchen. — Wuzzy
Carrot cake is Tom's favorite.
Translations
4 languagesBy meaning 1
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Origin
The Singaporean senses are calque of Hokkien 菜頭粿 /菜头粿 (chhài-thâu-kóe / chhài-thâu-ké / chThe Singaporean senses are calque of Hokkien 菜頭粿 /菜头粿 (chhài-thâu-kóe / chhài-thâu-ké / chhài-thâu-kér, literally “radish cake”), which may have arisen from a confusion between Hokkien 菜頭 /菜头 (chhài-thâu, “radish”) and 紅菜頭 /红菜头 (âng-chhài-thâu, “carrot”, literally “red radish”).
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Forms
plural: carrot cakes| Singular | carrot cake |
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Synonyms
1 synonymsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable