labneh

English

labneh with olive oil

Etymology

From South Levantine Arabic لَبْنَة (labna).

Noun

labneh (uncountable)

1. Yogurt that has been strained to filter or remove the whey, which thus has a consistency between that of yoghurt and cheese.
   • 2009 May 6, Dwight Garner, “A Merchant of Trinkets and Memories”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     And I can assure you, were he to encounter the entire crew of the aircraft carrier Enterprise, he’d serve them eggs sunny-side up, and labneh fresh from the bag.

Synonyms

• strained yoghurt
• yoghurt cheese

Related terms

• leban, laban

Translations

strained yoghurt, yoghurt cheese

• Adyghe: шэзгъэ (šɛzğɛ)
• Arabic: لَبْنَة f (labna)
• French: labné m
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• German: Labneh n, Labné n
• Hebrew: לבנה (he)
• Russian: гре́ческий йо́гурт m (gréčeskij jógurt) (Greek yoghurt), лабнэ́ n (labnɛ́), творо́г (ru) m (tvoróg), тво́рог (ru) m (tvórog) (Russian variety)

See also

• quark