tvorog

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian творо́г (tvoróg) / тво́рог (tvórog). Doublet of quark and twaróg.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtvɔːɹəɡ/, /tvəˈɹəʊɡ/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -əʊɡ

Noun

tvorog (uncountable)

1. A soft curd cheese, traditionally made in regions of Central, Eastern and (less often) Northern Europe.

   Synonym: (in Polish cuisine) twaróg

   • 2005, James Meek, The People's Act of Love, Canongate, published 2006, page 84:

     Anna took her camera to the market and photographed old peasant women in curdstained aprons standing with their big knuckles resting on the counter on either side of ruined white castles of tvorog, their eyes deep and sceptical behind red cheekbones.

Translations

a soft curd cheese

• Armenian: կաթնաշոռ (hy) (katʻnašoṙ)
• Azerbaijani: kəsmik
• Belarusian: тваро́г m (tvaróh)
• Bulgarian: тваро́г m (tvaróg)
• Czech: tvaroh (cs) m
• Estonian: kohupiim
• Finnish: rahka (fi)
• German: Quark (de) m
• Ingrian: rahka
• Japanese: クワルク (ja) (kuwaruku)
• Kazakh: сүзбе (kk) (süzbe)
• Korean: 크바르크 (keubareukeu)
• Mari:

  Eastern Mari: торык (toryk)

• Polish: twaróg (pl) m
• Russian: творо́г (ru) m (tvoróg), тво́рог (ru) m (tvórog)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: тва̀рог m

  Latin: tvàrog (sh) m

• Slovak: tvaroh m
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: twarog m

  Upper Sorbian: twaroh m

• Tatar: эремчек (tt) (eremçek)
• Ukrainian: тварі́г m (tvaríh)
• Uzbek: tvorog
• Vilamovian: twiöeg m, twiög m, twuöḱ m
• Yiddish: צוואָרעך m (tsvorekh)