cottage cheese

bowl of cottage cheese

English

Etymology

First known use is from 1831 in the periodical Godey's Lady's Book. Believed to have originated because the simple cheese was usually produced in cottages from any left-over milk after making butter.

Noun

cottage cheese (countable and uncountable, plural cottage cheeses)

1. A cheese curd product with a mild flavor that is drained but not pressed so some whey remains.

   Synonyms: curd cheese, (US) Dutch cheese, (Pennsylvania) smear case

   Hyponyms: farmer cheese, quark, mató, ricotta, tvorog

Derived terms

• cottage cheese ass

Translations

cheese curd product

• Abkhaz: ахаҷа (axačʼa)
• Albanian: gjizë (sq) f
• Arabic: جُبْن قَرِيش m (jubn qarīš)

  Moroccan Arabic: جبن m (jban)

• Armenian: կաթնաշոռ (hy) (katʻnašoṙ)
• Bashkir: эремсек (eremsek)
• Basque: gaztanbera
• Belarusian: тваро́г m (tvaróh)
• Bulgarian: извара f (izvara), тваро́г m (tvaróg)
• Catalan: mató (ca) m, brull (ca)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 茅屋芝士 (maau⁴ uk¹ zi¹ si^6-2)

  Mandarin: 白乾酪／白干酪 (báigānlào), 白軟乾酪／白软干酪 (báiruǎn gānlào), 鬆軟乾酪／松软干酪 (sōngruǎn gānlào), 農家乾酪／农家干酪 (nóngjiā gānlào), 鮮乾酪／鲜干酪 (xiāngānlào), 鄉村奶酪／乡村奶酪 (zh) (xiāngcūn nǎilào), 農家乳酪／农家乳酪 (nóngjiā rǔlào), 軟白乾酪／软白干酪 (ruǎnbái gānlào)

• Czech: tvaroh (cs) m
• Danish: hytteost (da) c
• Dutch: huttenkaas m, hüttenkäse (nl) m, cottage cheese m
• Erzya: топо (topo)
• Esperanto: kazeo
• Estonian: kohupiim, kodujuust
• Faroese: kovaostur m
• Finnish: raejuusto (fi)
• French: fromage blanc (fr) m, faisselle (fr) f, fromage frais (fr) m, quark (fr) m
• Galician: requeixo (gl) m
• Georgian: ხაჭო (xač̣o)
• German: Hüttenkäse (de) m, Quark (de) m
• Greek: ανθότυρο (el) n (anthótyro)

  Ancient: πυριάτη f (puriátē)

• Hebrew: קוֹטֶג׳ m (kótej), גְּבִינַת קוֹטֶג׳ f (g'vinát-kótej)
• Hungarian: túró (hu)
• Icelandic: kotasæla (is) f
• Ido: kazeo (io)
• Italian: fiocchi di latte m pl
• Japanese: コテージチーズ (kotēji chīzu), コッテージチーズ (kottēji chīzu), カテージチーズ (katēji chīzu), カッテージチーズ (kattēji chīzu), クワルク (kuwaruku)
• Kabuverdianu: rekexom, rakexom
• Kashubian: glëmza f, glëmzda f
• Kazakh: ірімшік (kk) (ırımşık)
• Korean: 코티지 치즈 (kotiji chijeu), 크바르크 (keubareukeu)
• Kyrgyz: быштак (ky) (bıştak)
• Latvian: mājas siers m
• Lithuanian: varškė (lt) f, grūdėta varškė f
• Macedonian: младо сирење n (mlado sirenje), изварка f (izvarka), урда f (urda)
• Malagasy: tsaky (mg)
• Malay: keju kotej
• Norwegian: hytteost m
• Persian: ترف (fa) (tarf), لور (fa) (lur), پَنیر کُلبه (fa) (panir kolbe)
• Plautdietsch: Gloms f
• Polish: serek wiejski m
• Portuguese: cottage m, requeijão (pt) m
• Romanian: brânză albă f
• Russian: творо́г (ru) m (tvoróg), тво́рог (ru) m (tvórog), дома́шний сыр m (domášnij syr)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ску̏та f, шва̏пскӣ си̏р m

  Roman: skȕta (sh) f, švȁpskī sȉr m

• Slovak: tvaroh m
• Slovene: skuta (sl) f
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: twarog m

  Upper Sorbian: twaroh m

• Spanish: cottage (es) m, requesón (es) m
• Swahili: please add this translation if you can
• Swedish: keso (sv) c, grynost (sv) c, ostmyssja c, ostmassa c, cottage cheese (sv)
• Tagalog: kesong puti
• Tarifit: taklilt f
• Tatar: эремчек (tt) (eremçek)
• Turkish: lor (tr), lor peyniri
• Ukrainian: тварі́г m (tvaríh), сир m (syr)
• Uzbek: tvorog
• Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can
• Vilamovian: twiöeg m, twiög m, twuöḱ m
• Walloon: makêye (wa) f, stofé (wa) m
• Welsh: caws colfran (cy) m
• Yiddish: צוואָרעך m (tsvorekh)
• Zulu: please add this translation if you can

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English cottage cheese.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌkɔtətʃ ˈtʃiːs/

Noun

cottage cheese m (uncountable)

1. cottage cheese

   Synonyms: huttenkaas, hüttenkäse

   Hyponym: kwark

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from English cottage cheese.

Noun

cottage cheese m (uncountable)

1. cottage cheese

   Synonyms: keso, grynost

   Hyponym: färskost

   • 2014 May 17, Göran Frost, “Arla rekryterar till Falkenberg [Arla is recruiting for Falkenberg.]”, in P4 Halland:

     Ombyggnaden av det före detta ostmejeriet i Falkenberg till cottage cheese-produktion följer tidsplanen, och i oktober ska produktionen vara i gång.

     The renovation of the former cheese factory in Falkenberg for cottage cheese production is proceeding according to schedule, and production is set to start in October.