yoghourt

English

Noun

yoghourt (countable and uncountable, plural yoghourts)

1. Dated spelling of yogurt.

Translations

yogurt — see also yogurt,‎ yoghurt,‎ yogourt

• Spanish: yoghourt m

French

Alternative forms

• yogourt (post-1990 spelling)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /jɔ.ɡuʁ/, /jo.ɡuʁ/

• Audio (France (Lyon)):

  (file)

Noun

yoghourt m (plural yoghourts)

1. alternative spelling of yogourt

Further reading

• “yoghourt”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Spanish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French yoghourt.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ʝoˈɡuɾt/ [ɟ͡ʝoˈɣ̞uɾt̪]

• IPA^(key): /ʝoˈɡuɾt/ [ɟ͡ʝoˈɣ̞uɾt̪] (everywhere but Pampas and southern Argentina and Uruguay)
• IPA^(key): /ʃoˈɡuɾt/ [ʃoˈɣ̞uɾt̪] (Buenos Aires and environs)
• IPA^(key): /ʒoˈɡuɾt/ [ʒoˈɣ̞uɾt̪] (elsewhere in Pampas and southern Argentina, Uruguay)

• Rhymes: -uɾt
• Syllabification: yo‧ghourt

Noun

yoghourt m (plural yoghourts)

1. (proscribed or dated) alternative form of yogur

Usage notes

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.

Further reading

• Seco, Manuel; Andrés, Olimpia; Ramos, Gabino (2023), “yoghourt”, in Diccionario del español actual [Dictionary of Current Spanish] (in Spanish), third digital edition, Fundación BBVA
• “yoghourt”, in Diccionario panhispánico de dudas [Pan-Hispanic Dictionary of Doubts] (in Spanish), 2nd edition, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española]; Association of Academies of the Spanish Language [Spanish: Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española], 2023, →ISBN
• yogur / yogures | FundéuRAE (fundeu.es)