yaourt

English

Alternative forms

• yaoort
• yaourti
• yaort
• youart
• yourt

Etymology

From French yaourt, from Turkish yoğurt Doublet of yogurt.

Noun

yaourt (uncountable)

1. A liquor fermented from milk, originally by the Turks.

Related terms

• yoghourt, yoghurd, yoghurt, yogurt

Anagrams

• Touray, outray

French

un pot de yaourt

Alternative forms

• yahourt
• yoghourt
• yogourt

Etymology

Borrowed from Turkish yoğurt.

Pronunciation

• ^{(aspirated h)} IPA^(key): /ja.uʁt/, /ja.uʁ/

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Noun

yaourt m (plural yaourts)

1. (chiefly France) yoghurt
2. a song where the singer makes up the words as they're singing, either as dummy lyrics as part of the songwriting process, or because the singer doesn't know the real lyrics of an existing song; used primarily with a verb: chanter en yaourt

Usage notes

• This word is treated as if it has an aspirated h despite not being written with an h.
• The variants yoghourt and yogourt are more common in Belgium, Switzerland and Canada. Especially in Canada the form yaourt is rarely used.

Further reading

• “yaourt”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
• yaourt on the French Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^fr