buttermilk

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbʌtɚˌmɪlk/
• IPA^(key): /ˈbʌtəˌmɪlk/
• 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.

Translations

traditional buttermilk

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

  Mandarin: 酪乳 (zh) (làorǔ), 酪漿／酪浆 (zh) (làojiāng), 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 (do)
• German: Buttermilch (de) f
• Greek: βουτυρόγαλα (el) n (voutyrógala)
• Hebrew: חובצה \ חֻבְצָה (he)
• Hindi: छाछ (hi) f (chāch)
• Hungarian: író (hu)
• Icelandic: áfir f pl
• Irish: bláthach f
• Italian: latticello (it) m
• Japanese: バターミルク (batāmiruku)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Korean: 버터밀크 (beoteomilkeu)
• Lao: ກາກນ້ຳນົມ (kāk nam nom)
• Latvian: paniņas (lv) f pl
• Luxembourgish: Bottermëllech f
• Macedonian: матеница (matenica)
• 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
• Romanian: zară (ro) f
• Russian: па́хта (ru) f (páxta)
• Sanskrit: तक्रम् (sa) n (takram)
• Santali: ᱕ᱷᱳᱨ (5hor)
• Slovak: cmar (sk) m
• Slovene: pinjenec (sl) m
• Spanish: suero de mantequilla m
• Swedish: kärnmjölk c
• Telugu: చల్ల (te) (calla), మజ్జిగ (te) (majjiga)
• Tibetan: དར་བ (dar ba)
• Turkish: yayık ayranı
• Ukrainian: масля́нка f (masljánka), па́хта f (páxta)
• Urdu: چھاچھ f (chāch)
• Uzbek: ayron (uz), ardob (uz)
• Vietnamese: kho thực phẩm
• Welsh: llaeth enwyn (cy) m

cultured buttermilk

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 發酵酪乳／发酵酪乳, 发酵酪乳 (fājiào làorǔ)

• Danish: please add this translation if you can
• Dutch: botermelk (nl) f
• Estonian: kefiir, keefir
• Finnish: piimä (fi)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Georgian: დო (do)
• Greek: ξινόγαλο (el) n (xinógalo)
• Macedonian: матеница f (matenica)
• Portuguese: please add this translation if you can
• Russian: батерми́лк m (batermílk)
• Spanish: suero de mantequilla m

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Albanian: ^{(please verify)} dhallë (sq) f
• Romanian: ^{(please verify)} zară (ro) f
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• Serbo-Croatian: ^{(please verify)} mlačenica f
• West Frisian: ^{(please verify)} sûpe (fy)

See also

• curd
• milk
• whey
• yoghurt