peanut butter

See also: peanutbutter

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌpiːnʌtˈbʌ.tə/, /ˈpiːnʌtˌbʌ.tə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈpi.nʌtˌbʌ.tɚ/

• Audio (US):

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Noun

Peanut butter in a jar.

peanut butter (countable and uncountable, plural peanut butters)

1. A spread made from ground peanuts.

   Synonyms: (dated) peanut paste, PB

   She likes eating peanut butter on toast.

   • 2003, George August, Ph.D. with Anita Balliro, Ph.D. et al., “The Effects of Peanut Butter on the Rotation of the Earth”, in Annals of Improbable Research‎^[1], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 4 August 2012:

     So far as we can determine, peanut butter has no effect on the rotation of the earth.

Coordinate terms

• almond butter
• cashew butter
• tahini

Derived terms

• PB
• peanut butter and jelly
• peanut butter cup
• peanut-buttered
• peanut-buttery

Translations

spread made from ground peanuts

• Afrikaans: grondboontjiebotter
• Arabic: زُبْدَةْ فُول سُودَانِيّ f (zubdat fūl sūdāniyy)
• Armenian: գետնանուշի կարագ (getnanuši karag)
• Azerbaijani: yerfındığı yağı, araxis yağı, fıstıq əzməsi
• Belarusian: арахі́савы але́й m (araxísavy aljéj)
• Bulgarian: фъстъ́чено масло́ n (fǎstǎ́čeno masló)
• Catalan: mantega de cacauet f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 花生醬 / 花生酱 (faa¹ sang¹ zoeng³)

  Mandarin: 花生醬 / 花生酱 (zh) (huāshēngjiàng)

• Czech: burákové máslo n, arašídové máslo n
• Danish: peanutbutter n, jordnøddesmør n
• Dutch: pindakaas (nl) m
• Esperanto: ternuksbutero (eo), arakida butero
• Estonian: maapähklivõi
• Finnish: maapähkinävoi (fi)
• French: beurre de cacahuètes m, beurre de cacahuète (fr) m, (Quebec) beurre d'arachides m, (Quebec, informal) beurre de pinottes (fr)
• Frisian:

  West Frisian: nútsjesmoar

• Galician: manteiga de cacahuete f
• Georgian: არაქისის კარაქი (arakisis ḳaraki), მიწის თხილის კარაქი (mic̣is txilis ḳaraki)
• German: Erdnussbutter (de) f, Erdnusscreme f, Erdnussmus n
• Greek: φυστικοβούτυρο (el) n (fystikovoútyro)
• Haitian Creole: manba
• Hebrew: חמאת בוטנים f (khem'át botním)
• Hungarian: mogyoróvaj (hu)
• Icelandic: hnetusmjör (is) n
• Ido: please add this translation if you can
• Indonesian: selai kacang
• Irish: im piseanna talún m
• Italian: burro di arachidi
• Japanese: ピーナッツバター (ja) (pīnattsubatā)
• Khmer: ប៊ឺសណ្តែកដី (bɨɨ sɑntaek dəy)
• Konkani: कडलेकाया लोणी (kaḍalēkāyā lōṇī)
• Korean: 땅콩버터 (ttangkongbeoteo)
• Lithuanian: riešutų sviestas
• Macedonian: путер од кикири́тки m (puter od kikirítki)
• Malay: mentega kacang
• Nahuatl:

  Classical Nahuatl: tlalcacahuamolli

• Navajo: naashchʼííʼ jelii, atłish
• Norman: beurre dé nouaix m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: peanøttsmør (no) n

  Nynorsk: peanøttsmør n

• Persian: کرهٔ بادام زمینی (kare-ye bâdâm zamini)
• Polish: masło orzechowe (pl) n
• Portuguese: manteiga de amendoim f, pasta de amendoim f
• Romanian: unt de arahide n
• Russian: ара́хисовое ма́сло n (aráxisovoje máslo), оре́ховое ма́сло n (oréxovoje máslo), арахисовая паста (araxisovaja pasta)
• Serbo-Croatian: maslac od kikirikija m
• Slovak: arašidové maslo n
• Slovene: arašídovo máslo n
• Spanish: (Mexico) crema de cacahuate f, mantequilla de maní f, manteca de maní f (Argentina, Uruguay), crema de maní f, mantequilla manisera f, mantequilla manicera f
• Sranan Tongo: pindadokun
• Swahili: siagi ya karanga
• Swedish: jordnötssmör (sv) n
• Tagalog: mantekilyang mani
• Tamil: வேர்க்கடலை வெண்ணெய் (vērkkaṭalai veṇṇey)
• Thai: เนยถั่วลิสง (nəəi-tùua-lí-sǒng), เนยถั่ว (nəəi-tùua)
• Turkish: fıstık ezmesi
• Ukrainian: арахісове масло n (araxisove maslo), арахісова паста f (araxisova pasta)
• Uzbek: yongʻoq moyi
• Vietnamese: bơ lạc, bơ đậu phộng
• Welsh: menyn pysgnau m
• Wolof: tiga-dege
• Yiddish: סטאַשקעשמיר f (stashkeshmir), נוס־פּוטער f (nus-puter)

Verb

peanut butter (third-person singular simple present peanut butters, present participle peanut buttering, simple past and past participle peanut buttered)

1. (informal, idiomatic, transitive) To spread resources too thin. (The addition of quotations indicative of this usage is being sought:)

Further reading

• peanut butter on Wikipedia.Wikipedia