prostokvasha

prostokvasha

English

Etymology

From Russian простоква́ша (prostokváša).

Noun

prostokvasha

prostokvasha (uncountable)

1. A thick soured milk product, similar to unsweetened yogurt but less sour, or kefir but thicker. In Russia or other former USSR republics, commercial and home-made prostokvasha comes in different varieties: "varenets" (варене́ц), "ryazhenka" (ря́женка), katyk/qatıq (каты́к), etc.

Translations

soured milk

Azerbaijani: qatıq (az) Bashkir: ҡатыҡ (qatïq) Belarusian: сырава́тка f (syravátka) Bulgarian: катък m (katǎk), крукмач m (krukmač) Chinese: Mandarin: 酸牛奶 (suānniúnǎi), 凝乳 (níngrǔ) Czech: kyselé mléko n Estonian: hapupiim Finnish: viili (fi) French: lait fermenté (fr) m, lait aigre (fr) m German: Dickmilch (de) f, Sauermilch f Japanese: 酸乳 (さんにゅう, sannyū), プロストクワーシャ (purosutokuwāsha) Kazakh: қатық (qatıq) Korean: 신 우유 (sin uyu) Kyrgyz: катык (katık)

Lithuanian: rūgpienis m Polish: zsiadłe mleko (pl) n, skwaszone mleko n, kwaśne mleko (pl) n Portuguese: leite fermentado m Russian: простоква́ша (ru) m (prostokváša), варене́ц (ru) m (varenéc), ря́женка (ru) f (rjáženka), каты́к (ru) m (katýk) Slovak: kyslé mlieko n Slovene: kislo mleko (sl) n Spanish: leche agria f Swedish: filmjölk (sv), surmjölk Tajik: қатиқ (qatiq) Tatar: катык (tt) (qatıq) Turkmen: gatyk Ukrainian: ки́сле молоко́ n (kýsle molokó), кисля́к (uk) m (kyslják) Uzbek: qatiq (uz) Vietnamese: sữa chua (vi), sữa chua đặc Zulu: amasi (zu)

See also

• kefir