colostrum

English

Wikipedia

Etymology

From Latin colostrum.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /kəˈlɒstɹəm/

Noun

colostrum (uncountable)

1. (medicine) A form of milk produced by the mammary glands in late pregnancy and the few days after giving birth. Human and bovine colostrum is thick and yellowish. In humans, it has high concentrations of nutrients and antibodies, but it is small in quantity.
2. A mixture of turpentine and egg yolk, formerly used as an emulsion.

Synonyms

• beastings
• beest
• beestings
• beistings
• beistyn
• biestings
• bisnings
• first milk
• fore-milk
• green milk

Translations

a form of milk

• Albanian: kulloshtër (sq)
• Arabic: لبأ (ar) (labaʾ) m
• Azeri: ağız (az), bulama (az)
• Belarusian: малодзіва (be) (malódziva) n 
• Bulgarian: коластра (bg) (kolástra) f 
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 初乳 (cmn) (chūrǔ)

• Czech: mlezivo (cs) n, kolostrum (cs) n
• Danish: råmælk (da)
• Dutch: biest (nl)
• Faroese: oskamjólk (fo) f, rámjólk (fo) f
• Finnish: ternimaito (fi)
• French: colostrum (fr) m
• German: Kolostrum (de) n, Vormilch (de) f, Biest (de) m
• Greek: πρωτόγαλα (el) (protógala) n 
• Hebrew: קולוסטרום (he)
• Hungarian: előtej (hu), kolosztrum (hu)
• Icelandic: broddmjólk (is) f, broddur (is) m
• Italian: colostro (it) m
• Japanese: 初乳 (ja) (しょにゅう, shonyū)

• Kazakh: авез (kk) (avez) , уыз (kk) (wız) 
• Korean: 초유 (ko) (choyu) (初乳 (ko))
• Kyrgyz: ооз (ky) (ooz) 
• Latin: colostrum (la)
• Norwegian: råmelk (no)

  Nynorsk: råmjølk (nn)

• Persian: آغوز (fa) (âğuz)
• Polish: siara (pl) f, młodziwo (pl) n, mleziwo (pl) n
• Portuguese: colostro (pt) m
• Romanian: coraslă (ro), colastră (ro)
• Russian: молозиво (ru) (molózivo) n 
• Slovak: mlezivo (sk) n
• Spanish: calostro (es) m
• Swedish: råmjölk (sv)
• Tatar: авыз (tt) (awız)
• Turkish: ağız (tr)
• Turkmen: agyz (tk), ağyz (tk)
• Ukrainian: молозиво (uk) (molózyvo) n 
• Vietnamese: sữa non (vi)

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Latin

Noun

colostrum

1. colostrum, beestings

Descendants

Albanian: kulloshtër Aromanian: curastrã English colostrum French: colostrum

Italian: colostro Portuguese: colostro Romanian: coraslă, colastră Spanish: calostro