birthday cake

English

A birthday cake.

The emoji for birthday cake: see the entry at 🎂.

Pronunciation

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Noun

birthday cake (countable and uncountable, plural birthday cakes)

1. A cake, often iced and decorated, made to celebrate a person's birthday.
   • 2013, Anita Hughes, chapter 20, in Lake Como, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin’s Griffin, →ISBN, page 221:

     “I almost ran away.” / “But you didn’t,” Hallie said seriously. / “We stayed for birthday cake.” Portia sat cross-legged on the bed. “Alfonso’s niece was afraid of the candles and Alfonso helped her blow them out. […]”

   • 2015, Claire Douglas, chapter 20, in The Sisters, London: Harper, →ISBN, page 209:

     We sit around chatting, with plates of birthday cake on our laps that none of us have got the stomach for.

2. In particular, a buttery, frosted vanilla cake of the sort commonly made to celebrate birthdays in the US, used in compound words to attribute a buttery or creamy, sugary, vanilla cake flavour or aroma to other things.

   Pat crushed up a package of birthday cake oreos and sprinkled them over birthday cake ice cream.

   birthday cake protein bars, birthday cake vodka, birthday cake flavour, birthday cake scented candles

Hypernyms

• cake

Translations

a cake made to celebrate a birthday

• Arabic: كَعْكَة عِيد مِيلَاد f (kaʕkat ʕīd mīlād)
• Burmese: မွေးနေ့ကိတ်မုန့် (mwe:ne.kitmun.), မွေးနေ့ကိတ် (mwe:ne.kit)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 生日蛋糕 (saang¹ jat⁶ daan⁶ gou¹)

  Mandarin: 生日蛋糕 (zh) (shēngrì dàngāo)

• Cornish: tesen benn-bloodh f
• Danish: fødselsdagskage (da) c
• Dutch: verjaardagstaart (nl) f or m, verjaarstaart (nl) f or m
• Estonian: sünnipäevatort
• Finnish: syntymäpäiväkakku
• French: gâteau d’anniversaire (fr) m, (Canada, Switzerland) gâteau de fête (fr) m
• Georgian: დაბადების დღის ტორტი (dabadebis dɣis ṭorṭi), საიუბილეო ტორტი (saiubileo ṭorṭi), სადაბადებისდღეო ტორტი (sadabadebisdɣeo ṭorṭi)
• German: Geburtstagskuchen (de) m
• Greek: τούρτα γενεθλίων f (toúrta genethlíon)
• Hebrew: עוגת יום הולדת \ עוּגַת יוֹם הֻלֶּדֶת f ('ugát yom hulédet)
• Hungarian: születésnapi torta (hu), szülinapi torta
• Indonesian: kue ulang tahun
• Italian: torta di compleanno f
• Japanese: 誕生日ケーキ (tanjōbi kēki), バースデーケーキ (bāsudē kēki)
• Korean: 생일 케이크 (saeng'il keikeu)
• Latin: lībum nātāle n
• Maltese: kejk t’għeluq sninek
• Manx: berreen ruggyree f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: bursdagskake m or f

  Nynorsk: bursdagskake f

• Persian: کیک تولد (keyk-e tavallod)
• Polish: tort urodzinowy m
• Portuguese: bolo de aniversário m
• Romanian: tort aniversar n
• Russian: то́рт ко дню рожде́ния m (tórt ko dnju roždénija)
• Spanish: tarta de cumpleaños f (Spain), torta de cumpleaños f
• Swedish: födelsedagstårta (sv) c
• Turkish: doğum günü pastası
• Vietnamese: bánh sinh nhật, bánh kem (vi)
• Welsh: cacen benblwydd (cy) f, teisen benblwydd (cy) f

See also

• 🎂
• birthday boy
• birthday girl
• birthday party

Further reading

• birthday cake on Wikipedia.Wikipedia