cottage cheese

bowl of cottage cheese

English

Etymology

First known use is from 1831. Believed to have originated because the simple cheese was usually produced in cottages from any left-over milk after making butter.

Noun

cottage cheese (countable and uncountable, plural cottage cheeses)

1. A cheese curd product with a mild flavor that is drained but not pressed so some whey remains.

   Synonyms: curd cheese, (US) Dutch cheese, (Pennsylvania) smear case

   Hyponyms: farmer cheese, quark, mató, ricotta, tvorog

Translations

cheese curd product

• Abkhaz: ахаҷа (axačʼa)
• Albanian: gjizë (sq) f
• Arabic: جُبْن قُرَيْش‎ m (jubn qurayš)

  Moroccan Arabic: جبن‎ m (jban)

• Armenian: կաթնաշոռ (hy) (katʿnašoṙ)
• Bashkir: эремсек (eremsek)
• Basque: gaztanbera
• Belarusian: тваро́г m (tvaróh)
• Bulgarian: извара f (izvara), тваро́г m (tvaróg)
• Catalan: mató (ca) m, brull (ca)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 茅屋芝士 (maau⁴ uk¹ zi¹ si^6-2)

  Mandarin: 白乾酪／白干酪 (báigānlào), 白軟乾酪／白软干酪 (báiruǎn gānlào), 鬆軟乾酪／松软干酪 (sōngruǎn gānlào), 農家乾酪／农家干酪 (nóngjiā gānlào), 鮮乾酪／鲜干酪 (xiāngānlào), 鄉村奶酪／乡村奶酪 (zh) (xiāngcūn nǎilào), 農家乳酪／农家乳酪 (nóngjiā rǔlào), 軟白乾酪／软白干酪 (ruǎnbái gānlào)

• Czech: tvaroh (cs) m
• Danish: hytteost (da) c
• Dutch: huttenkaas m, hüttenkäse (nl) m, cottage cheese m
• Erzya: топо (topo)
• Esperanto: kazeo
• Estonian: kohupiim, kodujuust
• Faroese: kovaostur m
• Finnish: raejuusto (fi)
• French: fromage blanc (fr) m, faisselle (fr) f, fromage frais (fr) m, quark (fr) m
• Galician: requeixo (gl) m
• Georgian: ხაჭო (xač̣o)
• German: Hüttenkäse (de) m, Quark (de) m
• Greek: ανθότυρο (el) n (anthótyro)

  Ancient: πυριάτη f (puriátē)

• Hebrew: קוֹטֶג׳‎ m (kótej), גְּבִינַת קוֹטֶג׳‎ f (g'vinát-kótej)
• Hungarian: túró (hu)
• Icelandic: kotasæla (is) f
• Ido: kazeo (io)
• Italian: fiocchi di latte m pl
• Japanese: コテージチーズ (kotēji chīzu), コッテージチーズ (kottēji chīzu), カテージチーズ (katēji chīzu), カッテージチーズ (kattēji chīzu), クワルク (kuwaruku)
• Kabuverdianu: rekexom, rakexom
• Kashubian: glëmza f, glëmzda f
• Kazakh: ірімшік (kk) (ırımşık)
• Korean: 코티지 치즈 (kotiji chijeu), 크바르크 (keubareukeu)
• Kyrgyz: быштак (ky) (bıştak)
• Latvian: mājas siers m
• Lithuanian: varškė (lt) f, grūdėta varškė f
• Macedonian: младо сирење n (mlado sirenje), изварка f (izvarka), урда f (urda)
• Malagasy: tsaky (mg)
• Malay: keju kotej
• Norwegian: hytteost m
• Persian: ترف‎ (fa) (tarf), لور‎ (fa) (lur), پَنیر کُلبه‎ (fa) (panir kolbe)
• Plautdietsch: Gloms f
• Polish: serek wiejski m
• Portuguese: cottage m, requeijão (pt) m
• Romanian: brânză albă f
• Russian: творо́г (ru) m (tvoróg), тво́рог (ru) m (tvórog), дома́шний сыр m (domášnij syr)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ску̏та f, шва̏пскӣ си̏р m

  Roman: skȕta (sh) f, švȁpskī sȉr m

• Slovak: tvaroh m
• Slovene: skuta (sl) f
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: twarog m

  Upper Sorbian: twaroh m

• Spanish: cottage (es) m, requesón (es) m
• Swahili: please add this translation if you can
• Swedish: keso (sv) c, grynost c, ostmyssja c, ostmassa c, cottage cheese (sv)
• Tagalog: kesong puti
• Tarifit: taklilt f
• Tatar: эремчек (tt) (eremçek)
• Turkish: lor (tr), lor peyniri
• Ukrainian: тварі́г m (tvaríh), сир m (syr)
• Uzbek: tvorog
• Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can
• Vilamovian: twiöeg m, twiög m, twuöḱ m
• Walloon: makêye (wa) f, stofé (wa) m
• Welsh: caws colfran (cy) m
• Yiddish: צוואָרעך‎ m (tsvorekh)
• Zulu: please add this translation if you can

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English cottage cheese.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌkɔtətʃ ˈtʃiːs/

Noun

cottage cheese m (uncountable)

1. cottage cheese

   Synonyms: huttenkaas, hüttenkäse

   Hyponym: kwark

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from English cottage cheese.

Noun

cottage cheese m (uncountable)

1. cottage cheese

   Synonyms: keso, grynost

   Hyponym: färskost