ghee

See also: Ghee

English

ghee.

Alternative forms

• ghi

Etymology

Borrowed from Hindustani گھی (ghī) / घी (ghī), from Sanskrit घृत (ghṛta, “sprinkled”). First attested in the late 17th century.

Pronunciation

• (Indic) IPA^(key): /ɡʰiː/
• (Western, Indic without aspiration) IPA^(key): /ɡiː/

• Audio (Southern England):

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  • Homophone: gi
• Rhymes: -iː

Noun

ghee (usually uncountable, plural ghees)

2. A type of clarified butter used in South Asian cooking.

   Synonym: usli ghee

   • 1845, T.A. Wise, Commentary on the Hindu System of Medicine‎^[1], page 140:

     Of the medicines for relaxing the body; ghee, oil, charbi, marrow, and such are to be used; of these ghee is the best, as it is produced from milk, which is obtained from the cow.

   • 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 104:

     A Hindu manual of erotology suggests boiled ghee, drunk in the morning, in the spring time, as a healthful, strengthening beverage.

   • 2022 October 17, Priya Krishna, “It’s Not Diwali Without Mithai”, in The New York Times‎^[2]:

     Employees furiously pack ornate boxes containing laddoos enriched with ghee, spongy rasgula and all manner of colorful sweets, often made with dairy, sugar and nuts and sometimes topped with a layer of edible silver foil.

3. (South Asia) Vegetable oil for cooking.
   • 1973, Madhur Jaffrey, An Invitation to Indian Cooking:

     There are two kinds of ghee. Usli ghee or clarified butter is used rarely, partly because of its expense and partly because Indians consider it "heavy". The more commonly used ghee is a mixture of various vegetable oils.

Translations

South Asian-style clarified butter

• Arabic: سَمْن حَيَوَانِيّ m (samn ḥayawāniyy)

  Egyptian Arabic: سمنة m (sámna)

  Moroccan Arabic: سمن m (smen)

• Ashkun: anā́
• Assamese: ঘিঁউ (ghĩu), ঘিউ (ghiu)
• Bengali: ঘি (bn) (ghi)
• Bhojpuri: घीव (ghīv)
• Burmese: ဂီး (gi:)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 酥油 (zh) (sūyóu)

• Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: ghi (fi), ghee (fi)
• French: ghî (fr) m, ghee (fr) m
• Georgian: ერბო (ka) (erbo)
• German: Ghee (de) n
• Gujarati: ઘી (gu) n (ghī), તૂપ (tūp)
• Halegannada: ತುಪ್ಪ (tuppa)
• Hebrew: גהי
• Hindi: घी (hi) m (ghī), घृत (hi) m (ghŕt), मक्खन (hi) m (makkhan)
• Indonesian: gi (id), minyak samin (id)
• Japanese: ギー (gī)
• Kamkata-viri:

  Kamviri: anū́

  Kata-vari: anév

• Kannada: ತುಪ್ಪ (kn) (tuppa)
• Kashmiri: گؠو (gyav)
• Konkani: तूप (tūp)
• Maithili: घी (ghī)
• Malay: minyak sapi (ms), gi (ms)
• Malayalam: നെയ്യ് (ml) (neyyŭ)
• Marathi: तूप (tūp)
• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
• Nepali: घिउ (ne) (ghiu), घ्यू (ne) (ghyū)
• Pāli: sappi
• Persian: گی (fa) (gi), روغن حیوانی (fa) (rowġan-e heyvâni)
• Polish: ghi (pl) n
• Portuguese: ghee m
• Prakrit:

  Maharastri Prakrit: 𑀢𑀼𑀧𑁆𑀧 (tuppa)

• Punjabi:

  Gurmukhi: ਘਿਉ m (ghiu), ਘੇ m (ghe) (Doabi)

  Shahmukhi: گھیو m (gheyo), گھے m (ghe) (Doabi), تِھنْدا m (thindā)

• Rohingya: gíi
• Russian: топлёное ма́сло n (topljónoje máslo), гхи (ru) n (gxi)
• Sanskrit: घृत (sa) n (ghṛta)
• Sinhalese: ගිතෙල් (gitel)
• Spanish: please add this translation if you can
• Swahili: samli (sw)
• Swedish: skirat smör
• Sylheti: please add this translation if you can
• Tamil: நெய் (ta) (ney)
• Telugu: నెయ్యి (te) (neyyi)
• Thai: เนยใส (th) (nəəi-sǎi)
• Tocharian B: peṣke
• Turkish: sarı yağ (tr)
• Urdu: گھی m (ghī)
• Vietnamese: bơ sữa trâu lỏng
• Waigali: ënëvřë

See also

• butter oil
• clarified butter

References

• “ghee”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

Polish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English ghee.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡi/
• Rhymes: -i
• Syllabification: ghee

Noun

ghee n (indeclinable)

1. alternative spelling of ghi

Further reading

• ghee in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• ghee in PWN's encyclopedia

Portuguese

Noun

ghee m (plural ghees)

1. ghee (South Asian style clarified butter)