colostrum

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin colostrum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kəˈlɒstɹəm/

Noun

colostrum (usually uncountable, plural colostra)

1. (medicine) A form of milk produced by the mammary glands in late pregnancy and the few days after giving birth. Human and bovine colostrum is thick and yellowish. In humans, it has high concentrations of nutrients and antibodies, but it is small in quantity.
2. A mixture of turpentine and egg yolk, formerly used as an emulsion.

Synonyms

• beastings
• beest
• beestings
• beistings
• beistyn
• biestings
• bisnings
• first milk
• fore-milk
• green milk

Translations

a form of milk

• Albanian: kulloshtër (sq)
• Arabic: لَبَأ m (labaʔ)
• Armenian: դալ (hy) (dal), խիժ (hy) (xiž), խեժ (hy) (xež)
• Azerbaijani: ağız (az), bulama
• Bashkir: ыуыҙ (ıwıź)
• Basque: oritz
• Belarusian: мало́дзіва n (malódziva)
• Bulgarian: кола́стра (bg) f (kolástra)
• Burmese: နို့ရည်ကြည် (my) (nui.ranykrany)
• Catalan: calostre (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 初乳 (zh) (chūrǔ)

• Czech: mlezivo n, kolostrum n
• Danish: råmælk
• Dutch: biest (nl) f
• Estonian: ternespiim
• Faroese: oskamjólk f, rámjólk f
• Finnish: ternimaito (fi)
• French: colostrum (fr) m
• Friulian: caiostre f
• Galician: costro (gl) m
• German: Kolostrum (de) n, Vormilch f, Biest (de) m, Biestmilch f
• Greek: πρωτόγαλα (el) n (protógala)

  Ancient: πυριάτη f (puriátē), πυός m (puós)

• Hebrew: קולוסטרום (he)
• Hindi: खीस (hi) (khīs), नवदुग्ध (navdugdh)
• Hungarian: előtej, kolosztrum
• Icelandic: broddmjólk f, broddur (is) m
• Italian: colostro m
• Japanese: 初乳 (しょにゅう, shonyū)
• Kazakh: уыз (uyz)
• Korean: 초유 (ko) (choyu) (初乳)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: ژەک (jek)

• Kyrgyz: ууз (ky) (uuz)
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• Latin: colostrum
• Mongolian: уураг (mn) (uurag)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: råmelk (no) m or f, råmjølk m or f

  Nynorsk: råmjølk f

• Occitan: colòstrum m
• Old Church Slavonic:

  Cyrillic: млѣзиво n (mlězivo)

• Old East Slavic: молозиво n (molozivo)
• Persian: آغوز (fa) (âğuz), فرشه (forše), ماک (fa) (mâk)
• Polish: siara (pl) f, młodziwo n, mleziwo n
• Portuguese: colostro (pt) m
• Romanian: coraslă (ro), colastră (ro)
• Russian: моло́зиво (ru) n (molózivo)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: мле̏зӣво n, мље̏зӣво n

  Roman: mlȅzīvo n, mljȅzīvo (sh) n

• Slovak: mledzivo n
• Slovene: mlezivo n
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: sera f, serawa f

• Spanish: calostro m
• Swedish: råmjölk (sv)
• Tatar: угыз (tt) (uğız)
• Turkish: ağız (tr)
• Turkmen: ovuz
• Ukrainian: моло́зиво n (molózyvo)
• Uzbek: ogʻizsut
• Vietnamese: sữa non
• West Frisian: bjist c
• Westrobothnian:

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Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /koˈlos.trum/, [kɔˈɫ̪ɔs̠t̪rʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /koˈlos.trum/, [koˈlɔst̪rum]

Noun

colostrum n (genitive colostrī); second declension

1. Alternative form of colostra

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	colostrum	colostra
Genitive	colostrī	colostrōrum
Dative	colostrō	colostrīs
Accusative	colostrum	colostra
Ablative	colostrō	colostrīs
Vocative	colostrum	colostra