yoghurt

See also: Yoghurt

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Turkic *yogrut

Ottoman Turkish یوغورت (yoğurt)bor.

English yoghurt

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish یوغورت (yoğurt). Ultimately from Proto-Turkic *yogrut.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: yŏʹgət, yōʹgo͝ort, IPA^(key): /ˈjɒɡət/
• (General South African) IPA^(key): /ˈjoʊ.ɡət/

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• Rhymes: -ɒɡət

Noun

yoghurt (countable and uncountable, plural yoghurts)

1. (chiefly UK) Alternative spelling of yogurt.
   • 1995, Louise Burke, The Complete Guide to Food for Sports Performance: A Guide to Peak Nutrition for Your Sport, 2nd edition, Allen & Unwin, →ISBN, page 24:

     Many icecream shops now sell soft-serve yoghurts, icecreams and ice-desserts that are high in carbos and low in fat.

   • 2007, Giles Milton, Edward Trencom’s Nose: A Novel of History, Dark Intrigue, and Cheese, New York, N.Y.: Thomas Dunne Books, →ISBN, page 65:

     It was certainly an old smell – of that I could be certain. But it was not, I was sure, produced by any of the three thousand one hundred and twenty-six cheeses, yoghurts and fromages blancs that were being stored in the crypt.

   • 2012, Lesley Campbell, Alan L. Rubin, Type 2 Diabetes For Dummies, Australian Edition‎^[1], page 117:

     One serve of carbohydrates is approximately equal to a slice of bread, a piece of fruit, third of a cup of cooked rice, half a cup of grains, cereals, starchy vegetables or cooked pasta, 200 grams of plain yoghurt, or 300 millilitres of milk.

   • 2020, Nadiya Hussain, Nadiya Bakes‎^[2], London: Penguin Books, →ISBN:

     fudgy flapjacky fudge […] I always buy one of those flapjacks with a layer of yoghurt on top. But even with the topping, they are just never sweet enough for me. I also love fudge but that can be toe-curlingly sweet. So, in my search for a middle ground, I decided to combine the two.

Derived terms

• yoghurt-knitting

Translations

yogurt — see also yogurt,‎ yogourt,‎ yoghourt

• Spanish: yoghurt (es) m

Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from Turkish yoğurt.

Noun

yoghurt

1. yogurt

Declension

Declension of yoghurt

common gender	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	yoghurt	yoghurten	yoghurter	yoghurterne
genitive	yoghurts	yoghurtens	yoghurters	yoghurternes

Dutch

Alternative forms

• joghurt (superseded)

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish یوغورت (yoğurt).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈjɔ.xʏrt/
• (Belgium) IPA^(key): /ˈju.ɣurt/, /ˈju.xurt/
• Hyphenation: yo‧ghurt

Noun

yoghurt m (plural yoghurts, diminutive yoghurtje n)

1. yogurt

Derived terms

• aardbeienyoghurt
• yoghurtbacterie
• yoghurtcultuur
• yoghurtdrank
• yoghurtdrink
• yoghurtijs
• yoghurtplant

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• jogurt

Etymology

From Turkish yoğurt.

Noun

yoghurt m (definite singular yoghurten, indefinite plural yoghurter, definite plural yoghurtene)

1. yoghurt or yogurt

References

• “yoghurt” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• jogurt
• jåggert (eye dialect)

Etymology

From Turkish yoğurt.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /joɡʉrt/
• IPA^(key): /joɡːʉʈ/ (Eastern Norway)
• IPA^(key): /joɡːeʂt/ (Trøndelag)

Noun

yoghurt m (definite singular yoghurten, indefinite plural yoghurtar, definite plural yoghurtane)

1. yoghurt or yogurt

References

• “yoghurt” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Spanish

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Turkic *yogrut

Ottoman Turkish یوغورت (yoğurt)bor.

English yoghurtubor.

Spanish yoghurt

Unadapted borrowing from English yoghurt.

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‧ghurt

Noun

yoghurt m (plural yoghurts)

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), “yoghurt”, in Diccionario del español actual [Dictionary of Current Spanish] (in Spanish), third digital edition, Fundación BBVA
• “yoghurt”, 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)

Swedish

yoghurt

Noun

yoghurt c

1. yogurt

Declension

Declension of yoghurt

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	yoghurt	yoghurts
	definite	yoghurten	yoghurtens
plural	indefinite	yoghurtar	yoghurtars
	definite	yoghurtarna	yoghurtarnas

See also

• filmjölk

References

• “yoghurt”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
• “yoghurt”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
• “yoghurt”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)