koumiss

koumiss

English

Alternative forms

• koumis
• koumys
• koumyss

• kumis
• kumiss
• kumisz

• kumys
• kymys
• kymyz

Etymology

Via French koumis, German Kumiss, from Russian кумы́с (kumýs), borrowed from a Turkic source. Compare Tatar кымыз (qımız), Kazakh қымыз (qımız), Kyrgyz кымыз (kımız), Southern Altai кымыс (kïmïs), Turkish kımız, Azerbaijani qımız.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkuːmɪs/

Noun

koumiss (usually uncountable, plural koumisses)

1. A fermented drink made from mare's milk, common among peoples of the Central Asian steppes.
   • 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, page 688:

     Here, for example—a Scythian koumiss vessel, third century B.C. You can clearly see the Greek influence, especially in the friezework.

   • 1898, Herbert Allen Giles, A Chinese Biographical Dictionary, page 12:

     [Of a Persian wine] One name for this wine was 黑水晶 "black crystal"; it has also been confused with koumiss.

Translations

fermented drink

Afrikaans: please add this translation if you can Arabic: كُومِيس‎ m (kūmīs) Armenian: կումիս (hy) (kumis) Azerbaijani: qımız Bashkir: ҡымыҙ (qïmïð) Belarusian: кумы́с m (kumýs) Bulgarian: куми́с m (kumís) Catalan: kumis m Chinese: Mandarin: 馬奶酒, 马奶酒 (mǎnǎijiǔ) Czech: kumys m Dutch: koemis Esperanto: kumiso Faroese: kumys n Finnish: kumissi (fi) French: koumis (fr) m Georgian: კუმისი (ḳumisi) German: Kumys m, Kumyß m, Kumyss m, Kumiss m, Kumis m, Kumiß m Gujarati: please add this translation if you can Hebrew: קומיס‎ m (qimis) Hindi: please add this translation if you can Hungarian: kumisz (hu) Icelandic: please add this translation if you can Ido: please add this translation if you can Indonesian: please add this translation if you can Irish: please add this translation if you can Italian: kumis m Japanese: 馬乳酒 (ばにゅうしゅ, banyūshu), クミス (kumisu) Kazakh: қымыз (kk) (qımız) Khakas: хымыс (xımıs) Korean: 마유주 (mayuju) (馬乳酒), 쿠미스 (kumiseu) Kumyk: къымыз Kyrgyz: кымыз (ky) (kımız) Latin: cosmos

Lithuanian: kumysas Macedonian: please add this translation if you can Malay: please add this translation if you can Malayalam: please add this translation if you can Maltese: please add this translation if you can Marathi: please add this translation if you can Mongolian: айраг (mn) (ajrag), цэгээ (mn) (tsegee) Nogai: кымыз (kımız) Persian: کومیس‎ (kumis), قمیز‎ (fa) (qemiz) Piedmontese: koumyss Polish: kumys (pl) m Portuguese: kumis (pt) m Russian: кумы́с (ru) m (kumýs) Sanskrit: please add this translation if you can Serbo-Croatian: please add this translation if you can Shor: қымыс Slovak: kumys m Slovene: please add this translation if you can Southern Altai: кымыс (kïmïs) Spanish: kumis m Swahili: please add this translation if you can Swedish: kumys, kumiss Tatar: кымыз (tt) (qımız) Telugu: please add this translation if you can Turkish: kımız (tr) Turkmen: gymyz Tuvan: хымыс (hımıs) Ukrainian: куми́с m (kumýs) Uyghur: قىمىز‎ (qimiz) Uzbek: qimiz (uz) Vietnamese: rượu sữa ngựa Welsh: cwmis m, gwirod llaeth m Yakut: кымыс (kımıs) Zulu: please add this translation if you can