liqueur

See also: liquor

English

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French liqueur. Doublet of liquor.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation)
  • (pour–poor merger) IPA^(key): /lɪˈkjɔː(ɹ)/
  • (without the pour–poor merger) IPA^(key): /lɪˈkjʊə(ɹ)/

  • Audio (Southern England):

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /lɪˈkɝ/, /lɪˈk(j)ʊɹ/

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• Rhymes: -ʊə(ɹ), -ɜː(ɹ)

Noun

liqueur (countable and uncountable, plural liqueurs)

1. A flavored alcoholic beverage that is usually very sweet and contains a high percentage of alcohol.

Derived terms

• cassis liqueur
• cream liqueur
• liqueur wine

Related terms

• liquid
• liquidate
• liquidation
• liquidator
• liquidity
• liquidizer
• liquor

Translations

a flavored alcoholic beverage

• Albanian: liker (sq) m
• Arabic: لِيكْيُور m (likyur)
• Armenian: լիկյոր (hy) (likyor)
• Azerbaijani: likör
• Belarusian: лікёр m (likjór)
• Bulgarian: ликьо́р m (likjór)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 力嬌酒 / 力娇酒 (lik⁶ giu¹ zau²), 利口酒 (lei⁶ hau² zau²)

  Mandarin: 利口酒 (zh) (lìkǒujiǔ)

• Czech: likér (cs) m
• Danish: likør (da) c
• Dutch: likeur (nl) m or f
• Esperanto: likvoro
• Estonian: liköör
• Finnish: likööri (fi)
• French: liqueur (fr) f, ratafia (fr) f
• Galician: licor (gl) m
• Georgian: ლიქიორი (likiori)
• German: Likör (de) m
• Greek: ηδύποτο (el) n (idýpoto), λικέρ (el) n (likér)
• Hebrew: לִיקֶר (he) m
• Hungarian: likőr (hu)
• Icelandic: líkjör (is) m
• Indonesian: likeur
• Irish: licéar m
• Italian: liquore (it) m
• Japanese: リキュール (ja) (rikyūru)
• Kazakh: ликёр (lıykyör)
• Korean: 리큐어 (rikyueo)
• Kyrgyz: ликёр (likyor)
• Latvian: liķieris m
• Lithuanian: likeris m
• Macedonian: ликер m (liker)
• Norman: litcheu f
• Persian: لیکور (fa) (likor)
• Polish: likier (pl) m
• Portuguese: licor (pt) m
• Romanian: lichior (ro) n
• Russian: ликёр (ru) m (likjór)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ликер m

  Latin: liker (sh) m

• Slovak: likér m
• Slovene: liker (sl) m
• Spanish: licor (es) m
• Swedish: likör (sv) c
• Tajik: ликёр (likyor)
• Turkish: likör (tr)
• Ukrainian: ліке́р m (likér)
• Uzbek: likyor (uz)
• Vietnamese: rượu mùi (vi)
• Vilamovian: likȫr m
• Yiddish: ליקער (liker), נאַליווקע (nalivke)

See also

• cordial
• ratafia

Further reading

• liqueur on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Verb

liqueur (third-person singular simple present liqueurs, present participle liqueuring, simple past and past participle liqueured)

1. to flavor or treat (wine) with a liqueur
2. to top up bottles of sparkling wine with a sugar solution

   Every champagne has to be liqueured after its disgorgement, to replace the inevitable loss.

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin liquor.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /li.kœʁ/

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Noun

liqueur f (plural liqueurs)

1. alcoholic liqueur
2. (literary) drinkable liquid
3. (Canada) fizzy drink, pop
4. (obsolete) liquid
5. (Louisiana) liquor

Usage notes

• Liqueur and liquor are false friends: French liqueur never applies to alcoholic drinks in general.
• The Quebec use of the term is frequently targeted as an anglicism (from liquor), even though the meaning ("non-alcoholic drink") is older and has little connection to either English term.

Derived terms

• liqueur de dosage
• liqueur de tirage

Descendants

• → Greek: λικέρ (likér)
• → Persian: لیکور (likur)
• → Romanian: lichior, licoare
• → Russian: ликёр (likjór)
  • → Kazakh: ликёр (lıykyör)
• → Serbo-Croatian: liker / ликер
• → Swedish: likör
• → Ukrainian: ліке́р (likér)

Further reading

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

Romanian

Noun

liqueur n (plural liqueururi)

1. obsolete form of lichior

Declension

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	liqueur	liqueurul	liqueururi	liqueururile
genitive-dative	liqueur	liqueurului	liqueururi	liqueururilor
vocative	liqueurule		liqueururilor

References

• liqueur in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN