peanut butter

See also: peanutbutter

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌpiːnʌtˈbʌ.tə/, /ˈpiːnʌtˌbʌ.tə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈpi.nʌtˌbʌ.tɚ/

Noun

Peanut butter in a jar.

peanut butter (countable and uncountable, plural peanut butters)

1. A spread made from ground peanuts.
   • 2003, George August, Ph.D. with Anita Balliro, Ph.D. et al., “The Effects of Peanut Butter on the Rotation of the Earth”, in Annals of Improbable Research‎^[1], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 4 August 2012:

     So far as we can determine, peanut butter has no effect on the rotation of the earth.

Coordinate terms

• almond butter
• cashew butter
• tahini

Derived terms

• PB
• peanut butter and jelly
• peanut butter cup
• peanut-buttered
• peanut-buttery

 

Translations

spread made from ground peanuts

• Afrikaans: grondboontjiebotter
• Arabic: زُبْدَةْ فُول سُودَانِيّ f (zubdat fūl sūdāniyy)
• Armenian: գետնանուշի կարագ (getnanuši karag)
• Azerbaijani: yerfındığı yağı, araxis yağı, fıstıq əzməsi
• Belarusian: арахі́савы але́й m (araxísavy aljéj)
• Bulgarian: фъстъ́чено масло́ n (fǎstǎ́čeno masló)
• Catalan: mantega de cacauet f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 花生醬／花生酱 (faa¹ sang¹ zoeng³)

  Mandarin: 花生醬／花生酱 (zh) (huāshēngjiàng)

• Classical Nahuatl: tlalcacahuamolli
• Czech: burákové máslo n, arašídové máslo n
• Danish: peanutbutter n, jordnøddesmør n
• Dutch: pindakaas (nl)
• Esperanto: arakida butero
• Estonian: maapähklivõi
• Finnish: maapähkinävoi (fi)
• French: beurre de cacahuètes m, beurre de cacahuète (fr) m, (Quebec) beurre d’arachides m, (Quebec,informal) beurre de pinottes (fr)
• Galician: manteiga de cacahuete f
• Georgian: არაქისის კარაქი (arakisis ḳaraki), მიწის თხილის კარაქი (mic̣is txilis ḳaraki)
• German: Erdnussbutter (de) f, Erdnusscreme f, Erdnussmus n
• Greek: φυστικοβούτυρο (el) n (fystikovoútyro)
• Hebrew: חמאת בוטנים f (khem'át botním)
• Hungarian: mogyoróvaj (hu)
• Icelandic: hnetusmjör (is) n
• Ido: please add this translation if you can
• Indonesian: selai kacang
• Irish: im piseanna talún m
• Italian: burro di arachidi
• Japanese: ピーナッツバター (pīnattsubatā)
• Konkani: कडलेकाया लोणी (kaḍalēkāyā lōṇī)
• Korean: 땅콩버터 (ttangkongbeoteo)
• Lithuanian: riešutų sviestas
• Macedonian: путер од кикири́тки m (puter od kikirítki)
• Malay: mentega kacang
• Navajo: naashchʼííʼ jelii, atłish
• Norman: beurre dé nouaix m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: peanøttsmør (no) n

  Nynorsk: peanøttsmør n

• Persian: کرهٔ بادام زمینی (kare-ye bâdâm zamini)
• Polish: masło orzechowe (pl) n
• Portuguese: manteiga de amendoim f, pasta de amendoim f
• Romanian: unt de arahide n
• Russian: ара́хисовое ма́сло n (aráxisovoje máslo), оре́ховое ма́сло n (oréxovoje máslo), арахисовая паста (araxisovaja pasta)
• Serbo-Croatian: maslac od kikirikija m
• Slovak: arašidové maslo n
• Slovene: arašídovo máslo n
• Spanish: (Mexico) crema de cacahuate f, mantequilla de maní f, manteca de maní f (Argentina, Uruguay), crema de maní f
• Sranan Tongo: pindadokun
• Swahili: siagi ya karanga
• Swedish: jordnötssmör (sv) n
• Tagalog: mantekilyang mani
• Thai: เนยถั่วลิสง (nəəi-tùua-lí-sǒng), เนยถั่ว (nəəi-tùua)
• Turkish: fıstık ezmesi
• Ukrainian: арахісове масло n (araxisove maslo), арахісова паста f (araxisova pasta)
• Uzbek: yongʻoq moyi
• Vietnamese: bơ lạc, bơ đậu phộng
• Welsh: menyn pysgnau m
• West Frisian: nútsjesmoar
• Wolof: tiga-dege
• Yiddish: סטאַשקעשמיר f (stashkeshmir), נוס־פּוטער f (nus-puter)

Verb

peanut butter (third-person singular simple present peanut butters, present participle peanut buttering, simple past and past participle peanut buttered)

1. To spread resources too thin

Further reading

• peanut butter on Wikipedia.Wikipedia