yogurt

yogurt

See also: yoğurt

English

Alternative forms

• yoghurt (Commonwealth)
• yoghourt
• yogourt (Canada)

obsolete spellings[1]

• (obsolete, 17th century:) yoghurd
• (obsolete, 19th century:) yaghourt, yahourt, yogurd, yohourth, yooghort, yughard, yughurt

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish یوغورت‎ (yoğurt).[1][2][3][4]

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: yŏʹgət, IPA^(key): /ˈjɒ.ɡət/,[1]

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• (US) enPR: yōʹgərt, IPA^(key): /ˈjoʊ.ɡɚt/

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• (General Australian) enPR: yōʹgət, IPA^(key): /ˈjəʉ.ɡət/
• Rhymes: (Received Pronunciation) -ɒɡət

Noun

A plate of yogurt.

yogurt (countable and uncountable, plural yogurts)

1. A milk-based product stiffened by a bacterium-aided curdling process, and sometimes mixed with fruit or other flavoring.
2. (especially in compounds) Any similar product based on other substances (e.g. soy yogurt).

Related terms

• yaourt

Descendants

• → Welsh: iogwrt
• → Yoruba: yúgọ́ọ̀tì

Translations

a milk-based product thickened by a bacterium-aided curdling process

Abkhaz: ахарҵәы (axarcʷʼə) Afrikaans: jogurt Albanian: kos (sq) m, jogurt m Amharic: እርጎ (ʾərgo) Arabic: لَبَن‎ (ar) m (laban), لَبَن زَبَادِيّ‎ m (laban zabādiyy), لَبَن رَائِب‎ m (laban rāʾib), رَوْب‎ m (rawb), رَوْبَة‎ f (rawba), (obsolete) مَاسْت‎ m (māst) Egyptian Arabic: زبادي‎ m (zabadi) Hijazi Arabic: زبادي‎ m (zabādi) Moroccan: دانون‎ m (danan) Armenian: յոգուրտ (hy) (yogurt) Aromanian: mãrcat n Assamese: দৈ (doi) Asturian: yogur m Azerbaijani: qatıq (az), yoğurt (az) (in Tabriz), yoqurt Basque: jogurt (eu) Belarusian: ёгурт m (jóhurt) Bengali: দই (bn) (dôi) Breton: yaourt m Bulgarian: ки́село мля́ко n (kíselo mljáko) Burmese: ဒိန်ချဉ် (my) (dinhkyany) Buryat: тараг (tarag) Catalan: iogurt (ca) m Cebuano: yogur Cherokee: ᏧᏂᎿᏦᏯᏍᏔᏅ (tsunihnatsoyastanv) Chinese: Cantonese: 乳酪 (jyu⁵lok³) Hakka: 優酪乳, 优酪乳 (yulólù) Mandarin: 酸奶 (zh) (suānnǎi), 酸牛奶 (suānniúnǎi), 酸凝酪 (suānnínglào, suānníngluò), 優酪乳／优酪乳 (zh) (yōulàorǔ, yōuluòrǔ) (Taiwan), 發酵乳／发酵乳, 乳酪 (zh) (rǔlào) (Hong Kong, Macau), 发酵乳 (fājiàorǔ, fāxiàorǔ), 優格／优格 (zh) (yōugé)(Taiwan) Min Nan: 酸奶 (sng-lin / sng-ni / suiⁿ-leng) Wu: 酸奶 (soe na) Cornish: yogort m Crimean Tatar: yoğurt, qatıq Czech: jogurt (cs) m Danish: jogurt c, yoghurt (da) c Dutch: yoghurt (nl) m Esperanto: jogurto, jahurto Estonian: jogurt (et) Faroese: jogurt n Finnish: jogurtti (fi) French: yaourt (fr) m, (Canada, Belgium, Switzerland) yogourt (fr) m Gagauz: yuurt Galician: iogur (gl) m Georgian: იოგურტი (iogurṭi), მაწონი (ka) (mac̣oni) German: Joghurt (de) m Greek: γιαούρτι (el) n (giaoúrti) Ancient: ὀξύγαλα n (oxúgala) Gujarati: દહીં (dahī̃) Hebrew: יוֹגוּרְט‎ (he) m (yogurt) Hindi: दही (hi) m (dahī) Hungarian: joghurt (hu) Icelandic: jógúrt Ido: yogurto (io) Indonesian: yoghurt (id) Interlingua: yogurt Irish: iógart m Italian: yogurt (it) m, iogurt (it) m Japanese: ヨーグルト (ja) (yōguruto) Kannada: ಮೊಸರು (kn) (mosaru) Kazakh: йогурт (iogurt), қатық (qatyq) Khmer: ទឹកដោះជូរ (tɨkdɑhcuu) Korean: 요구르트 (ko) (yogureuteu) Kumyk: ювурт (yuwurt) Kurdish: Central Kurdish: ماست‎ (ku) (mast) Northern Kurdish: mast (ku) m Kyrgyz: йогурт (yogurt), катык (katık), жуурат (ky) (juurat) Ladino: yaúrt Lao: ນົມສົ້ມ (lo) (nom som) Latin: (New Latin) iogurtum n Latvian: jogurts m Lithuanian: jogurtas m Luxembourgish: Jughurt (lb) m Macedonian: јо́гурт m (jógurt) Malay: yogurt Malayalam: തൈര് (ml) (tairŭ) Maltese: jowgart Manx: binjean m Maori: miraka tepe Marathi: दही (dahī) Mongolian: тараг (mn) (tarag) Nepali: दहि (dahi) Nogai: ювырт (yuvırt) Norwegian: Bokmål: jogurt (no) m, yoghurt (no) m Nynorsk: yoghurt m, jogurt m Old Uyghur: [script needed] (ywγrwt /yoγrut/) Oromo: itittuu Ottoman Turkish: یوغورت‎ (yoğurt) Pashto: ماسته‎ (ps) f pl (māstᶕ), مستى‎ f pl (masté) Persian: ماست‎ (fa) (mâst), جغرات‎ (fa) (joğrât) Polish: jogurt (pl) m Portuguese: iogurte (pt) m Quechua: yugur Romanian: iaurt (ro) n Romansch: jogurt m Russian: йо́гурт (ru) m (jógurt), простоква́ша (ru) f (prostokváša) (home made) Rwanda-Rundi: yawurute Scottish Gaelic: iogart m Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: јогурт m Roman: jogurt (sh) m Sicilian: jogurt m Sindhi: ڏهي‎ (sd) Sinhalese: යෝගට් (yōgaṭ) Slovak: jogurt (sk) m Slovene: jogurt (sl) m Sorbian: Lower Sorbian: jogurt m Spanish: yogur (es) m Swahili: maziwa ya mgando Swedish: yoghurt (sv) c Sylheti: ꠖꠂ (doi) Tagalog: yogart Tajik: ҷурғот (tg) (jurġot), мост (tg) (most), йогурт (tg) (yogurt), қатиқ (qatiq) Tamil: தயிர் (ta) (tayir) Tatar: йогырт (tt) (yoğırt), катык (tt) (qatıq) Telugu: పెరుగు (te) (perugu) Thai: โยเกิร์ต (yoo-gə̀ət), นมเปรี้ยว (nom-bprîao) Tibetan: ཞོ (zho) Tigrinya: ርግኦ (rəgʾo) Turkish: yoğurt (tr) Turkmen: gatyk, süzme, ýogurt Ukrainian: йо́гурт m (jóhurt), йо́ґурт m (jógurt), юґу́рт m (jugúrt) Urdu: دہی‎ m (dahī) Uyghur: قايماق‎ (qaymaq) Uzbek: qatiq (uz), yogurt (uz) Vietnamese: sữa chua (vi), da ua (vi) Welsh: iogwrt (cy) m Western Panjabi: یوگرٹ‎ Yiddish: יאָגורט‎ m (yogurt) Zazaki: mast (diq) c, most (diq) c

See also

• buttermilk
• curd
• kefir
• whey

 

References

1. “yogurt” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary, second edition, 1989
2. “yogurt”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
3. “yogurt”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present. (including The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, fourth edition, 2004)
4. Douglas Harper (2001–2023), “yogurt”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

Further reading

• yogurt on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• grouty

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Italian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Ottoman Turkish یوغورت‎ (yoğurt).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈjɔ.ɡurt/[1]
• Rhymes: -ɔɡurt
• Hyphenation: yò‧gurt

Noun

yogurt m (invariable)

1. yogurt

Derived terms

• yogurteria
• yogurtiera

References

1. yogurt in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

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Spanish

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ʝoˈɡuɾt/ [ɟ͡ʝoˈɣ̞uɾt̪]

• IPA^(key): (everywhere but Argentina and Uruguay) /ʝoˈɡuɾt/ [ɟ͡ʝoˈɣ̞uɾt̪]
• IPA^(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /ʃoˈɡuɾt/ [ʃoˈɣ̞uɾt̪]
• IPA^(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /ʒoˈɡuɾt/ [ʒoˈɣ̞uɾt̪]

• Rhymes: -uɾt
• Syllabification: yo‧gurt

Noun

yogurt m (plural yogurts)

1. Alternative form of yogur