butter

See also: Butter

English

Butter (food made of cream) stick with a butter knife.

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Pronunciation

• enPR: bŭtʹ-ər, IPA^(key): /ˈbʌ.təɹ/
  • • (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈbʌ.tə/

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    • (US) IPA^(key): /ˈbʌ.tɚ/, [ˈbʌɾɚ]

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  • Rhymes: -ʌtə(r)
• (some Northern England accents) IPA^(key): /ˈbʊ.tə/
  • Rhymes: -ʊtə(r)
• Hyphenation: but‧ter

Etymology 1

From Middle English, from Old English butere (“butter”), from Proto-Germanic *buterô (“butter”) (compare West Frisian buter, Dutch boter, German Butter), from Latin būtȳrum, from Ancient Greek βούτῡρον (boútȳron, “cow cheese”), compound of βοῦς (boûs, “ox, cow”) and τῡρός (tyrós, “cheese”), from Scythian. Compare Avestan 𐬌𐬭𐬌𐬏𐬙 (tūiri, “curdled milk, whey”)), from Proto-Indo-European *tuHrós (compare Middle Indic [script?] (tūra, “cheese”), Russian творог (tvoróg, “curds, soft cheese”), Old English þweran (“to churn”), ge-þweor (“curds”)).

Noun

butter (usually uncountable, plural butters)

1. (uncountable) A soft, fatty foodstuff made by churning the cream of milk (generally cow's milk).
2. (countable, obsolete, chemistry) Any specific soft substance.

   butter of antimony

3. (uncountable) Any of various foodstuffs made from other foods or oils, similar in consistency to, eaten like or intended as a substitute for butter (preceded by the name of the food used to make it).

   peanut butter

Derived terms

Terms derived from butter (noun)

almond-butter apple butter as if butter would not melt in one's mouth bean-butter body butter bog-butter brandy butter bread and butter bread buttered on both sides butteraceous butter-ale butter-and-egg man butter and eggs, butter-and-eggs butter and tallow tree butter-ball, butterball butter-back butter-badger butter-bag butter-bake butter-barrel butter-basher butter bean butter-bird butter-bitten butter-boat butterbore butter-bowzy butter-box butter-boy butterbread butter brickle butterbur butter-bush butter-cake butterchurn butter clam butter cloth butter color, butter colour

butter-cooler butter cream butter cross buttercup butter curler butter-cutter butter dish, butter-dish butter dock, butter-dock butter-duck butter-factor butter fat, butter-fat, butterfat butter-fingered, butterfingered butter-fingers, butterfingers butter-fish, butterfish butter-flip butter-flower butter icing butterie butterine butterish butter-jags butter knife, butter-knife butter-lamp butter-leaves butterless butter letter butter-man butter-mark butter-milk, buttermilk butter-mold, butter-mould butter-mouth butter muslin butter-nut, butternut butter of almonds butter of antimony butter of arsenic butter of bismuth butter of cacao

butter of mace butter of tin butter of wax butter of zinc butter oil butter paper butter-pat butter-pear butter-plate butter-print butter-queen butter-rigged butter-root butter salt butter scoop butterscot, butter-scotch, butterscotch butter-slide, butterslide butter spade butter-spreader butter stamp butter-stick butter substitute butter tart butter-toast butter tongs butter-tooth butter-toothed butter-tree butter trier butter-weed, butterweed butter week butter-weight butter-whore butter-wife butter-woman butter-worker butter-working butterwort

buttery butter yellow cacao butter clarified butter cocoa butter coconut butter cocum butter, kokum butter dika-butter drawn butter duck butter fairy butter, fairy's butter Galam butter gren butter mahwa-butter make butter and cheese of May butter melted butter nut butter palm-butter peanut butter process butter renovated butter rock butter rum butter shea butter sugar-butter sauce vegetable butter witches' butter

Related terms

• butterfly
• butter-ham

Translations

soft foodstuff made from milk

• Afrikaans: botter (af)
• Albanian: gjalpë
• American Sign Language: H@TipPalm-PalmDown-OpenB@CenterChesthigh-PalmUp Contact H@BasePalm H@TipPalm Contact H@BasePalm H@TipPalm Contact H@BasePalm
• Arabic: زبدة f (zúbda)

  Egyptian Arabic: زبدة f (zébda)

• Aragonese: please add this translation if you can
• Armenian: կարագ (karag)
• Asturian: mantega f
• Azeri: yağ (az)
• Bashkir: май (may)
• Basque: gurin (eu)
• Belarusian: масла n (másla)
• Bengali: মাখন (makhôn)
• Breton: amanenn (br) m
• Bulgarian: масло (bg) n (máslo)
• Burmese: ထောပတ် (my) (htau:pat)
• Catalan: mantega f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 黃油 (zh), 黄油 (zh) (huángyóu), 牛油 (zh) (niúyóu), 白脫 (zh), 白脱 (zh) (báituō)

• Czech: máslo (cs) n
• Dalmatian: butir m
• Danish: smør (da) n
• Dutch: boter (nl) f
• Esperanto: butero
• Estonian: või (et)
• Faroese: smør n
• Finnish: voi (fi)
• French: beurre (fr) m
• Friulian: please add this translation if you can
• Galician: manteiga (gl) f
• Georgian: კარაქი (karak’i)
• German: Butter (de) f

  Bavarian: Budda m

• Greek: βούτυρο (el) n (voútyro)
• Greenlandic: punneq
• Gujarati: માખણ (gu) (mAkhaN), મસ્કો (masko)
• Hebrew: חֶמְאָה (he) f (khem'a)
• Hindi: घी (ghī), मक्खन (makkhan), माखन (mAkhan)
• Hungarian: vaj (hu)
• Icelandic: smjör (is) n
• Ido: butro (io)
• Indonesian: mentega (id)
• Ingrian: voi
• Interlingua: butyro
• Interlingue: please add this translation if you can
• Irish: im (ga) m

  Old Irish: imb n

• Italian: burro (it) m
• Japanese: バター (ja) (batā), 乳酪 (ja) (にゅうらく, nyūraku)
• Jèrriais: beurre m
• Kannada: please add this translation if you can
• Kazakh: май (may)
• Khmer: បឺរ (bər), ខ្លាញ់ទឹកដោះ (klañ tɨk dɑh)
• Kinyarwanda: amavuta
• Kirundi: please add this translation if you can
• Korean: 버터 (ko) (beoteo)
• Kurdish:

  Sorani: که‌ره‌ (ku)

• Kyrgyz: май (ky) (may), сары май (ky) (sarı may), сүт май (ky) (süt may), паста (ky) (pasta), повидло (ky) (povidlo), май сүйкөө (ky) (may süyköö)

• Lao: ເບີ (lo) (bəə)
• Latgalian: svīsts
• Latin: butyrum
• Latvian: sviests (lv) m
• Lithuanian: sviestas m
• Low German:

  German Low German: Botter (nds) f

• Luxembourgish: Botter (lb) m
• Macedonian: путер m (púter)
• Malay: mentega (ms)
• Maltese: butir (mt)
• Manx: eeym m
• Maori: pata
• Marathi: माखणे (mākhaṇe)
• Mirandese: please add this translation if you can
• Mongolian: цөцгийн тос (tsötsgijn tos)
• Navajo: mandagíiya
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: smør (no) n

  Nynorsk: smør n

• Novial: butre
• Occitan: burre (oc) m, bodre (oc) m
• Old Church Slavonic: масло n (maslo)
• Old English: butere f
• Persian: کره (fa) (kare), مسکه (fa) (maske)
• Polish: masło (pl) n
• Portuguese: manteiga (pt) f
• Romanian: unt (ro) n
• Romansch: paintg m
• Russian: масло (ru) n (máslo), сливочное масло (ru) n (slívočnoje máslo)
• Sanskrit: नवनीत (navnīta), घृत (ghr̥ta)
• Scottish Gaelic: ìm m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: маслац m, путер m

  Roman: maslac m, puter m

• Sinhalese: බටර් (baṭar)
• Slovak: maslo n
• Slovene: maslo (sl) n, puter m (colloquial)
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: butra f

• Sotho: sereledi (st)
• Spanish: mantequilla (es) f, manteca (es) f (Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay)
• Swahili: siagi (sw)
• Swedish: smör (sv) n
• Tajik: равған (ravġan), равғани зард (ravġani zard)
• Tatar: май (tt) (may)
• Telugu: వెన్న (te) (venna)
• Thai: เนย (th) (noey)
• Tok Pisin: bata
• Turkish: tereyağı (tr)
• Turkmen: mesge
• Ukrainian: масло n (máslo)
• Urdu: گھی (ghī), مکھن (makkhan)
• Uzbek: sariеg`
• Vietnamese: bơ (vi)
• Volapük: bör (vo), (older term) mileg
• Votic: või
• Walloon: boure (wa) m
• Welsh: menyn (cy) m
• West Frisian: bûter c
• Yiddish: פּוטער f (puter)
• Zulu: ibhotela, iphehlwa

other foodstuffs like butter

• Bashkir: май (may)
• Esperanto: ŝmiraĵo
• French: beurre (fr) m

• Russian: масло (ru) n (máslo)
• Swedish: smör (sv) n

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• Georgian: ერბო (erbo)

Verb

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

1. (transitive) To spread butter on.

   Butter the toast.

2. to move one's weight backwards or forwards onto the tips or tails of one's skis or snowboard so only the tip or tail is in contact with the snow.
3. (slang, obsolete, transitive) To increase (stakes) at every throw of dice, or every game.

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Derived terms

Terms derived from butter (verb)

butter one's bread on both sides butter the cony

butter up fine words butter no parsnips

have one's bread buttered for life know which side one's bread is buttered on

Translations

to spread butter on — See also translations at : spread,‎ butter

Afrikaans: botter (af), bebotter Bulgarian: намазвам с масло (namazvam s maslo) Czech: (impf.) mazat máslem, namazat máslem, (pf.) pomazat máslem Danish: smøre brødet Dutch: beboteren (nl), inboteren, met boter besmeren French: beurrer (fr) German: mit Butter (de) bestreichen Ido: butrizar (io) Interlingua: butyrar Italian: imburrare (it) Jèrriais: beurrer

Polish: smarować masłem Portuguese: amanteigar, passar manteiga em Russian: намаслить (ru) (namáslit’), намасливать (namáslivat’), намазать маслом (namázat’ máslom), намазывать маслом (namázyvat’ máslom) Slovene: namazati z maslom Spanish: untar con mantequilla Swedish: bre (sv), breda (sv) Thai: ทาเนย (ta noey) Vietnamese: (vào) quẹt bơ

See also

• butyraceous
• ghee

Etymology 2

butt +‎ -er

Noun

butter (plural butters)

1. Someone who butts; someone who butts in

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French

Etymology

From butte.

Verb

butter

1. to heap

   butter les pommes de terre.

Conjugation

   Conjugation of butter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

		simple			compound
infinitive		butter			avoir butté
gerund		en buttant			en ayant butté
present participle		buttant
past participle		butté
person		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il	nous	vous	ils
simple tenses	present	butte	buttes	butte	buttons	buttez	buttent
	imperfect	buttais	buttais	buttait	buttions	buttiez	buttaient
	past historic1	buttai	buttas	butta	buttâmes	buttâtes	buttèrent
	future	butterai	butteras	buttera	butterons	butterez	butteront
	conditional	butterais	butterais	butterait	butterions	butteriez	butteraient
compound tenses	present perfect	Use the present tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	pluperfect	Use the imperfect tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	past anterior1	Use the past historic tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	future perfect	Use the future tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	conditional perfect	Use the conditional tense of avoir followed by the past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il	que nous	que vous	qu’ils
simple tenses	present	butte	buttes	butte	buttions	buttiez	buttent
	imperfect1	buttasse	buttasses	buttât	buttassions	buttassiez	buttassent
compound tenses	past	Use the present subjunctive of avoir followed by the past participle
	pluperfect1	Use the imperfect subjunctive of avoir followed by the past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
		—	butte	—	buttons	buttez	—
1literary tenses

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Swedish

Adjective

butter (comparative buttrare, superlative buttrast)

1. grumpy

Declension

Declension of butter

Inflections of butter		Absolute	Comparative	Superlative
				Attributive	Predicative
Indefinite singular	Common	butter	buttrare		buttrast
	Neuter	buttert
Definite singular	Masc.	buttre		buttraste
	All	buttra		buttraste
Plural		buttra		buttraste