shea butter

English[edit]

shea butter (usually uncountable, plural shea butters)

A slightly yellowish or ivory-colored natural fat extracted from fruit of the shea tree (Vitellaria paradoxa) by crushing and boiling, widely used in cosmetics as a moisturizer and an emollient, as a cooking oil in West Africa, and sometimes used in the chocolate industry as a substitute for cocoa butter.
- 1799, Mungo Park, chapter XXI, in Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa, page 279:
  About two o'clock in the afternoon, a sort of hasty pudding, with a little Shea butter, is the common meal; but the supper constitutes the principal repast, and is seldom ready before midnight.
- 2004, Brenda Chalfin, Shea Butter Republic, Psychology Press, →ISBN, page 179:
  Shea butter is sold by hundreds of small firms who package and reformulate the butter under their own labels, purporting to by-pass the depersonalizing tendencies of mass-production and mass-marketing. […]

fat extracted from the fruit of the shea tree

Adja: yɔkumi
Bambara: situlu
Bissa: kurɲɔn
Buli (Ghana): kpaam
Cerma: nampilaŋo
Chinese:
Mandarin: 乳木果油 (rǔmùguǒyóu), 乳油木果油 (rǔyóumùguǒyóu), 牛油樹脂／牛油树脂 (niúyóu shùzhī), 牛油果精華／牛油果精华 (niúyóuguǒ jīnghuá), 牛油果樹果脂／牛油果树果脂 (niúyóuguǒshùguǒzhī), 牛油脂 (niúyóuzhī)
Chumburung: kidembrawee
Dagbani: kpakahili
Djimini: logolo sinmɛ, sinvunwɛ
Dyula: situlu
Farefare: kaam
Finnish: karitevoi
French: beurre de karité (fr)
German: Sheabutter
Gourmanchéma: sánkpàma, kpanaali, sànkpènààli
Hungarian: sheavaj, karitévaj
Ifè: òrí
Italian: burro di karitè m
Japanese: シアバター
Kabiye: num kɩbam
Mbelime: hoòmɔ́tídè, caǹwùòmɛ̀
Moore: ka-moaaga
Norwegian:
Bokmål: sheasmør n
Portuguese: manteiga de karité/carité f
Russian: масло ши n (maslo ši), масло карите n (maslo karite)
Saxwe Gbe: limi
Spanish: manteca de karité
Swedish: sheasmör
Turka: nɔ̃mplaw