labneh

English

labneh with olive oil

Alternative forms

• lebneh, labaneh, labne, lebni, labane, lebnah, lebna, labna, labana, lebeni, lebeneh, lebenah, labnah

Etymology

From South Levantine Arabic لَبْنَة (labna).

Noun

labneh (countable and uncountable, plural labnehs)

1. Yogurt that has been strained to filter or remove the whey and thus has a consistency between that of yoghurt and cheese.
   • 2009 May 6, Dwight Garner, “A Merchant of Trinkets and Memories”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     And I can assure you, were he to encounter the entire crew of the aircraft carrier Enterprise, he’d serve them eggs sunny-side up, and labneh fresh from the bag.

Synonyms

• strained yoghurt
• yoghurt cheese
• Greek yogurt (North America)

Hypernyms

• plain yogurt, regular yogurt, natural yogurt, dahi – any yogurt that bar possible fruits has minimal additions in particular of sugar or other sweeteners: normal yogurt; the same as “labneh” minus the step of straining
• yogurt

Related terms

• laban, leban

Translations

strained yoghurt, yoghurt cheese

• Adyghe: шэзгъэ (šɛzğɛ)
• Finnish: valutettu jogurtti
• French: labné (fr) m
• German: Abtropfjoghurt m, Labneh n, Labné n (exotism)
• Hebrew: לבנה (he)
• Japanese: ラブナ (ja), ラブネ (ja)
• Polish: jogurt grecki (pl) m
• Russian: гре́ческий йо́гурт m (gréčeskij jógurt) (Greek yoghurt), лабнэ́ n (labnɛ́), творо́г (ru) m (tvoróg), тво́рог (ru) m (tvórog) (Russian variety), сузьма́ f (suzʹmá), сюзьма́ f (sjuzʹmá)

See also

• quark