yogurt

See also: yoğurt

English

Alternative forms

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

obsolete spellings

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

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish یوغورت (yoğurt).

Pronunciation

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

  • Audio (UK):

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

  • Audio (US):

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

Noun

A plate of yogurt.

A package of nondairy yogurt, in this case soy-based. Other nondairy yogurt may be almond, cashew etc. based.

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).

Usage notes

Non-dairy yogurt, at least in the United States, is often labeled "yogurt alternative" on the package.

Derived terms

• AB-yogurt
• frozen yogurt
• Greek yogurt
• Icelandic yogurt
• purple-headed yogurt slinger
• soy yogurt
• yogurt knitting
• yogurt-knitting
• yogurt maker

 

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 rāʔib), رَوْب m (rawb), رَوْبَة f (rawba), (obsolete) مَاسْت m (māst)

  Egyptian Arabic: زبادي m (zabadi)

  Gulf Arabic: روب (rōb)

  Hijazi Arabic: زبادي m (zabādi)

  Moroccan: دانون m (danon)

• 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) (doi)
• 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 (jyu⁵ lok³)

  Hakka: 優酪乳／优酪乳 (yulólù)

  Hokkien: 酸奶 (sng-lin / sng-ni / suiⁿ-leng)

  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 (fājiàorǔ), 乳酪 (zh) (rǔlào) (Hong Kong, Macau), 发酵乳 (fājiàorǔ, fāxiàorǔ), 優格／优格 (zh) (yōugé) (Taiwan)

  Wu: 酸奶 (¹soe-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: ទឹកដោះគោជូរ (tɨk dɑh koo cuu)
• Korean: 요구르트 (ko) (yogureuteu)
• Kumyk: ювурт (yuwurt)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: ماست (ckb) (mast)

  Northern Kurdish: mast (ku) m

• Kyrgyz: йогурт (yogurt), катык (katık), жуурат (ky) (juurat)
• Ladino: yaúrt
• Lao: ນົມສົ້ມ (lo) (nom som)
• Latin: melca f, (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, waipupuru, waiū pupuru, mirakapē
• Marathi: दही n (dahī)
• Mongolian: тараг (mn) (tarag)
• Nepali: दहि (dahi)
• Nogai: ювырт (yuvırt)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: jogurt (no) m, yoghurt (no) m

  Nynorsk: yoghurt m, jogurt m

• Occitan: iogort (oc) m, iaort (oc) m
• Old Uyghur: [script needed] (ywγrwt /⁠yoγrut⁠/)
• Oromo: itittuu
• Ottoman Turkish: یوغورت (yoğurt), لبن (leben)
• 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
• Sardinian: gioddu m
• 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

 

Further reading

• yogurt on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• grouty

Italian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Ottoman Turkish یوغورت (yoğurt).

Pronunciation

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

Noun

yogurt m (invariable)

1. yogurt

Derived terms

• yogurteria
• yogurtiera

Malay

Etymology

Borrowed from English yogurt.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /joɡut/, /joɡət/
• Rhymes: -ut, -ət

Noun

yogurt (Jawi spelling يوݢورت, plural yogurt-yogurt, informal 1st possessive yogurtku, 2nd possessive yogurtmu, 3rd possessive yogurtnya)

1. yogurt

Further reading

• “yogurt” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

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