skim milk

English

Alternative forms

• skimmed milk (UK)

Pronunciation

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Noun

skim milk (countable and uncountable, plural skim milks)

1. (Canada, US, Australia) Non-fat milk; milk that has had the cream removed.

   We like to drink skim milk instead so as to consume fewer calories.

Synonyms

• non-fat milk

Coordinate terms

• 2% milk
• full cream milk
• powdered milk
• semi-skimmed milk
• soy milk
• whole milk

Translations

milk with removed cream

• Bulgarian: обезмаслено мляко (obezmasleno mljako)
• Catalan: llet desnatada f, llet descremada f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 脫脂奶／脱脂奶 (tyut³ zi¹ naai⁵), 脫脂牛奶／脱脂牛奶 (tyut³ zi¹ ngau⁴ naai⁵)

  Mandarin: 脫脂牛奶／脱脂牛奶 (tuōzhī niúnǎi)

• Danish: skummetmælk (da) c, minimælk c (milk with approximately 0.5% fat), letmælk c (milk with up to 1.5% fat)
• Dutch: afgeroomde melk f, magere melk f
• Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: kuorittu maito, rasvaton maito (fi), kurri (fi)
• French: lait écrémé (fr) m
• Galician: leite desnatado m
• German: entrahmte Milch f, Magermilch (de) f
• Greek: αποβουτυρωμένο γάλα n (apovoutyroméno gála)
• Hausa: tsala
• Hebrew: חלב רזה m (khaláv razé)
• Icelandic: undanrenna f, léttmjólk (is) f
• Ingrian: koorimaito
• Italian: latte scremato m
• Japanese: 脱脂粉乳 (ja) (だっしふんにゅう, dasshi funnyū) (powdered), スキムミルク (sukimu miruku), スキム・ミルク (sukimu miruku)
• Korean: please add this translation if you can
• Lithuanian: nugriebtas pienas m, sometimes liespienis m
• Maori: miraka kore kirīmi
• Norman: lait êcrémé m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: skummet melk m or f, skumma melk m or f, skumma mjølk m or f

  Nynorsk: skumma mjølk f

• Old English: þynnu meolc f
• Plautdietsch: Schliesamalkj f
• Polish: mleko odtłuszczone m or n, chude mleko n
• Portuguese: leite desnatado m (Brazil), leite magro m (Portugal)
• Russian: обезжи́ренное молоко́ n (obezžírennoje molokó), сня́тое молоко́ n (snjátoje molokó), обра́т (ru) m (obrát) (rare)
• Slovene: posneto mleko (sl) n
• Spanish: leche desnatada f, leche descremada f
• Swedish: skummjölk c, lättmjölk (sv) c
• Turkish: yağsız süt
• Ukrainian: please add this translation if you can