buttermilk

English

Etymology

From Middle English butter-melke, equivalent to butter +‎ milk. Compare German Low German Bottermelk (“buttermilk”), German Buttermilch (“buttermilk”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈbʌtɚˌmɪlk/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈbʌtəˌmɪlk/

• Audio (Southern England)

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• Hyphenation: but‧ter‧milk

Noun

buttermilk (countable and uncountable, plural buttermilks)

1. The liquid left over after producing butter from full cream milk by the churning process, also called traditional buttermilk.
2. Cultured buttermilk, a fermented dairy product produced from cow's milk, with a characteristically sour taste.

Derived terms

• Devil's buttermilk
• fly in the buttermilk

 

Translations

traditional buttermilk

• Albanian: dhallë (sq) f
• Arabic: مَخِيض m (maḵīḍ), مَمْخُوض m (mamḵūḍ)
• Armenian: թան (hy) (tʻan)
• Aromanian: dhalã, dalã
• Belarusian: па́хта f (páxta), маслёнка f (masljónka)
• Bulgarian: мъ́теница (bg) f (mǎ́tenica)
• Catalan: sèrum de mantega m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 酪乳 (zh) (làorǔ), 酪漿／酪浆 (zh) (làojiāng)

• Czech: podmáslí (cs) n
• Danish: kærnemælk (da) c
• Dutch: karnemelk (nl) f, botermelk (nl) f
• Esperanto: buterlakto
• Estonian: pett (et), petipiim, võipiim
• Faroese: blak n
• Finnish: kirnupiimä (fi)
• French: babeurre (fr) m
• Galician: soro de manteiga
• Georgian: დო (ka) (do)
• German: Buttermilch (de) f
• Greek: βουτυρόγαλα (el) n (voutyrógala)
• Hawaiian: wai koʻana waiū paka
• Hebrew: חובצה \ חֻבְצָה (he)
• Hindi: छाछ (hi) f (chāch)
• Hungarian: író (hu)
• Icelandic: áfir f pl
• Ingrian: kirnumaito, pettömaito, pettopiimä, pettypiimä
• Irish: bláthach f

  Old Irish: bláthach f

• Italian: latticello (it) m
• Japanese: バターミルク (batāmiruku)
• Kannada: ಮಜ್ಜಿಗೆ (kn) (majjige)
• Korean: 버터밀크 (beoteomilkeu)
• Ladin: nida f
• Lao: ກາກນ້ຳນົມ (kāk nam nom)
• Latvian: paniņas (lv) f pl
• Luxembourgish: Bottermëllech f
• Macedonian: матеница (matenica)
• Manx: bainney geayr m
• Marathi: ताक n (tāk)
• Norman: lait d'beurre m (Jersey)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: kjernemelk m or f, kjernemjølk (no) m or f

  Nynorsk: kjernemjølk f

• Persian: دوغ (fa) (duğ), پینو (fa) (pinu)
• Polish: maślanka (pl) f
• Portuguese: leitelho m, soro de manteiga m
• Punjabi: ਛਾਹ f (chāh), ਲੱਸੀ f (lassī)
• Romanian: zară (ro) f
• Russian: па́хта (ru) f (páxta)
• Sanskrit: तक्रम् (sa) n (takram)
• Santali: ᱜᱷᱳᱨ (ghor)
• Scottish Gaelic: blàthach f
• Serbo-Croatian: mlaćènica f, stȅpka (sh) f
• Slovak: cmar (sk) m
• Slovene: pinjenec (sl) m
• Spanish: suero de mantequilla m
• Swedish: kärnmjölk (sv) c
• Tamil: மோர் (ta) (mōr)
• Telugu: చల్ల (te) (calla), మజ్జిగ (te) (majjiga)
• Tibetan: དར་བ (dar ba)
• Turkish: yayık ayranı
• Ukrainian: масля́нка f (masljánka), сколо́тини pl (skolótyny)
• Urdu: چھاچھ f (chāch)
• Uzbek: ayron (uz), ardob (uz)
• Vietnamese: kho thực phẩm
• Welsh: llaeth enwyn (cy) m, enwyn m
• West Frisian: sûpe (fy)
• Yiddish: פּוטערמילך (putermilkh), מאַסלינקע (maslinke)

cultured buttermilk

• Arabic: دُوغ m (dūḡ)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 發酵酪乳／发酵酪乳 (fājiào làorǔ)

• Danish: please add this translation if you can
• Dutch: botermelk (nl) f
• Estonian: ^{(please verify)} kefiir, ^{(please verify)} keefir
• Finnish: piimä (fi)
• Georgian: დო (ka) (do)
• Greek: ξινόγαλα (el) f (xinógala)
• Hindi: छाछ (hi) (chāch)
• Kannada: ಮಜ್ಜಿಗೆ (kn) (majjige)
• Macedonian: матеница f (matenica)
• Portuguese: leitelho cultivado m
• Russian: батерми́лк m (batermílk)
• Spanish: suero de mantequilla m
• Tamil: மோர் (ta) (mōr)
• West Frisian: sûpe (fy)

See also

• curd
• milk
• whey
• yoghurt