coconut milk

English

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Noun

Coconut milk.

coconut milk (usually uncountable, plural coconut milks)

1. A thick white liquid produced by soaking the white inner flesh of the seed of the coconut in water and straining. It is traditionally used in Southeast Asian cuisine in curry and other gravy.

Usage notes

• Coconut milk is a distinct product from coconut water (sometimes called "coconut juice"), though in common parlance the two are often confused.
• Like other plant milk, strictly speaking coconut “milk” is a misnomer, as it is not produced by lactation, though it has a milky (opaque, white) consistency. However, not only has this "misnomer" been in use in English since circa 1200 AD, but using the same logic, terms like peanut butter and coconut cream would also be classified as misnomers.

Hypernyms

• plant milk

Coordinate terms

• almond milk
• coconut cream
• coconut water
• hazelnut milk
• hemp milk
• oat milk
• peanut milk
• rice milk
• soy milk

Translations

the liquid from inside the seed of the coconut

• Arabic: حَلِيب النَارَجِيل m (ḥalīb an-nārajīl), حَلِيب جَوْز الْهِنْد m (ḥalīb jawz al-hind)
• Bikol Central: guta (bcl), natok
• Burmese: အုန်းနို့ (my) (un:nui.)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 椰汁 (je^4-2 zap¹), 椰漿 / 椰浆 (je⁴ zoeng¹), 椰漿 / 椰浆 (je⁴ zoeng¹), 椰奶 (je⁴ naai⁵)

  Mandarin: 椰奶 (zh) (mainland China: yēnǎi; Taiwan: yénǎi), 椰漿 / 椰浆 (mainland China: yējiāng; Taiwan: yéjiāng), 椰子水兒 / 椰子水儿 (yēzi shuǐr)

• Czech: kokosové mléko n
• Dutch: klappermelk (nl) m or f, kokosmelk (nl) m or f, santen (nl)
• Esperanto: kokoslakto
• Fijian: lolo
• Finnish: kookosmaito (fi)
• French: lait de coco (fr) m, lait de noix de coco m
• German: Kokosmilch (de) f
• Hawaiian: kai niu
• Hiligaynon: gata
• Hungarian: kókusztej (hu)
• Icelandic: kókosmjólk f
• Ido: kokoslakto
• Indonesian: santan (id)
• Italian: latte di cocco m
• Japanese: ココナッツミルク (ja) (kokonattsu miruku)
• Javanese: ꦱꦤ꧀ꦠꦼꦤ꧀ (santen)
• Kapampangan: piga
• Khmer: ខ្ទិះ (km) (khtih)
• Korean: 코코넛 밀크 (kokoneot milkeu)
• Lao: ກະທິ (lo) (ka thi)
• Latvian: kokosriekstu piens m
• Lithuanian: kokoso pienas m
• Macanese: santám
• Macedonian: кокосово млеко n (kokosovo mleko)
• Malay: santan (ms)
• Malayalam: തേങ്ങാപ്പാൽ (ml) (tēṅṅāppāl)
• Mon: ဍာ်တှ်သတ်ဗြဴ (mnw)
• Ngazidja Comorian: nazi class 9
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: kokosmelk f or m, kokosmjølk f

  Nynorsk: kokosmjølk f

• Old Javanese: santĕn
• Pali: khīraṃnāḷī f
• Polish: mleczko kokosowe (pl) n
• Portuguese: leite de coco m
• Rarotongan: roro
• Romanian: lapte de cocos (ro) n
• Russian: коко́совое молоко́ (ru) n (kokósovoje molokó)
• Samoan: lolo, suāniu, peʻepeʻe (cream)
• Shan: ၼမ်ႉမၢၵ်ႇဢုၼ် (shn) (nâ̰m màak ʼǔn)
• Sinhalese: පොල් කිරි n (pol kiri)
• Spanish: agua de coco m, leche de coco m
• Sranan Tongo: krontomerki
• Swahili: tui (sw)
• Swedish: kokosmjölk (sv)
• Tagalog: gata (tl)
• Telugu: కొబ్బరి పాలు (te) (kobbari pālu)
• Thai: กะทิ (th) (gà-tí)
• Tongan: lolo, niu huʻi, niu taufua (cream), pekepeke (cream)
• Tuamotuan: kami
• Ukrainian: коко́сове молоко́ n (kokósove molokó)
• Vietnamese: nước cốt dừa
• Volapük: kokotavaet