yaourt

English

Etymology 1

From French yaourt, from Turkish yoğurt. Doublet of yogurt.

Alternative forms

• yaoort, yaourti, yaort, youart, yourt

Noun

yaourt (uncountable)

1. Obsolete form of yogurt.
   • 1885, Cyprus guide and directory, page 82:

     Yaourt is simply the milk turned sour and somewhat resembles curds only that it is thicker in consistency. The milk is originally turned by introducing a few drops of the milk of the fig into a bowl of sheep or goat's milk gently heated and then allowed to cool. A spoonful of the yaourt is kept as a kind of leaven and is sufficient to convert a large bowl of milk into yaourt. Eaten with sugar yaourt is very palatable and refreshing in warm weather and is said to be a preventive of fever.

Related terms

• yoghourt, yoghurd, yoghurt, yogurt

Etymology 2

Noun

yaourt (plural yaourts)

1. Obsolete form of yurt.
   • 1898, Friedrich Ratzel, The History of Mankind: The Africans of the interior, page 336:

     […] yaourts with their felt covering are very draughty, and it is hard to keep warm even wrapped in fur […]

Anagrams

• Touray, outray

French

un pot de yaourt

Alternative forms

• yahourt
• yoghourt
• yogourt

Etymology

Borrowed from Turkish yoğurt.

Pronunciation

• ^{(aspirated h)} IPA^(key): /ja.uʁt/, /ja.uʁ/

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Noun

yaourt m (plural yaourts)

1. (chiefly France, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, New Caledonia, Réunion, West Africa) yoghurt
2. a song where the singer makes up the words as they're singing, either as dummy lyrics as part of the songwriting process, or because the singer doesn't know the real lyrics of an existing song; used primarily with a verb: chanter en yaourt

Usage notes

• This word is treated as if it has an aspirated h despite not being written with an h.
• The variants yoghourt and yogourt are more common in Belgium, Switzerland and Canada. Especially in Canada the form yaourt is rarely used.

Further reading

• “yaourt”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
• yaourt on the French Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^fr