yogurt

See also: yoğurt

English

Alternative forms

• yoghurt (Commonwealth)
• yoghourt
• yogourt (Canada)

obsolete spellings

• (obsolete, 17th century:) yoghurd
• (obsolete, 19th century:) yaghourt, yahourt, yogurd, yohourth, yooghort, yughard, yughurt, yaourt

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish یوغورت (yoğurt).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: yŏʹgət, IPA^(key): /ˈjɒ.ɡət/,

  • Audio (UK):

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• (General American) enPR: yōʹgərt, IPA^(key): /ˈjoʊ.ɡɚt/

  • Audio (US):

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• (General Australian) enPR: yōʹgət, IPA^(key): /ˈjəʉ.ɡət/
• Rhymes: (Received Pronunciation) -ɒɡət

Noun

A plate of yogurt.

A package of nondairy yogurt, in this case soy-based. Other nondairy yogurt may be almond, cashew etc. based.

yogurt (countable and uncountable, plural yogurts)

1. A milk-based product stiffened by a bacterium-aided curdling process, and sometimes mixed with fruit or other flavoring.
   • 2009 January 24, Corey Mintz, “Lunching well at Forte bistro and lounge”, in Toronto Star‎^[1]:

     Moroccan curried crab and streaks of minty, lemony yogurt add luxury to a supersimple zucchini soup ($14).

   • 2024 September 5, Alice Callahan, “Are Some Ultraprocessed Foods Worse Than Others?”, in The New York Times‎^[2]:

     It makes up an estimated 73 percent of the U.S. food supply, and contains stereotypically “unhealthy” products like sodas, candies and hot dogs as well as seemingly “healthy” ones like whole grain breads, breakfast cereals, flavored yogurts and plant milks.

2. (especially in compounds) Any similar product based on other substances (e.g. soy yogurt).

Usage notes

• Non-dairy yogurt, at least in the United States, is often labeled "yogurt alternative" on the package.

Derived terms

• AB-yogurt
• frozen yogurt
• Greek yogurt
• Icelandic yogurt
• purple-headed yogurt slinger
• soy yogurt
• yogurt knitting
• yogurt-knitting
• yogurt maker

 

Descendants

• → Welsh: iogwrt
• → Yoruba: yúgọ́ọ̀tì

Translations

a milk-based product thickened by a bacterium-aided curdling process

• Abkhaz: ахарҵәы (axarcʷʼə)
• Afrikaans: jogurt
• Albanian: kos (sq) m, jogurt m
• Amharic: እርጎ (ʾərgo)
• Arabic: لَبَن (ar) m (laban), لَبَن زَبَادِيّ m (laban zabādiyy), لَبَن رَائِب m (laban rāʔib), رَوْب m (rawb), رَوْبَة f (rawba), (obsolete) مَاسْت m (māst)

  Egyptian Arabic: زبادي m (zabadi)

  Gulf Arabic: روب (rōb)

  Hijazi Arabic: زبادي m (zabādi)

  Moroccan: دانون m (danon)

• Armenian: յոգուրտ (hy) (yogurt)
• Aromanian: mãrcat n
• Assamese: দৈ (doi)
• Asturian: yogur m
• Azerbaijani: qatıq (az), yoğurt (az) (in Tabriz), yoqurt (Russianism)
• Basque: jogurt (eu)
• Belarusian: ёгурт m (jóhurt)
• Bengali: দই (bn) (doi)
• Breton: yaourt m
• Bulgarian: ки́село мля́ко n (kíselo mljáko)
• Burmese: ဒိန်ချဉ် (my) (dinhkyany)
• Buryat: тараг (tarag)
• Catalan: iogurt (ca) m
• Cebuano: yogur
• Cherokee: ᏧᏂᎿᏦᏯᏍᏔᏅ (tsunihnatsoyastanv)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 乳酪 (jyu⁵ lok³)

  Hakka: 優酪乳／优酪乳 (yulólù)

  Hokkien: 酸奶 (sng-lin / sng-ni / suiⁿ-leng)

  Mandarin: 酸奶 (zh) (suānnǎi), 酸牛奶 (suānniúnǎi), 酸凝酪 (suānnínglào, suānníngluò), 優酪乳／优酪乳 (zh) (yōulàorǔ, yōuluòrǔ) (Taiwan), 發酵乳／发酵乳 (fājiàorǔ), 乳酪 (zh) (rǔlào) (Hong Kong, Macau), 发酵乳 (fājiàorǔ, fāxiàorǔ), 優格／优格 (zh) (yōugé) (Taiwan)

  Wu: 酸奶 (¹soe-na)

• Cornish: yogort m
• Crimean Tatar: yoğurt, qatıq
• Czech: jogurt (cs) m
• Danish: jogurt c, yoghurt (da) c
• Dutch: yoghurt (nl) m
• Esperanto: jogurto, jahurto
• Estonian: jogurt (et)
• Faroese: jogurt n
• Finnish: jogurtti (fi)
• French: yaourt (fr) m, (Canada, Belgium, Switzerland) yogourt (fr) m
• Gagauz: yuurt
• Galician: iogur (gl) m
• Georgian: იოგურტი (iogurṭi), მაწონი (ka) (mac̣oni)
• German: Joghurt (de) m
• Greek: γιαούρτι (el) n (giaoúrti)

  Ancient: ὀξύγαλα n (oxúgala)

• Gujarati: દહીં (dahī̃)
• Hebrew: יוֹגוּרְט (he) m (yogurt)
• Hindi: दही (hi) m (dahī)
• Hungarian: joghurt (hu)
• Icelandic: jógúrt
• Ido: yogurto (io)
• Indonesian: yoghurt (id)
• Interlingua: yogurt
• Irish: iógart m
• Italian: yogurt (it) m, iogurt (it) m
• Japanese: ヨーグルト (ja) (yōguruto)
• Kannada: ಮೊಸರು (kn) (mosaru)
• Kazakh: йогурт (iogurt), қатық (qatyq)
• Khmer: ទឹកដោះគោជូរ (tɨk dɑh koo cuu)
• Korean: 요구르트 (ko) (yogureuteu)
• Kumyk: ювурт (yuwurt)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: ماست (ckb) (mast)

  Northern Kurdish: mast (ku) m

• Kyrgyz: йогурт (yogurt), катык (katık), жуурат (ky) (juurat)
• Ladino: yaúrt
• Lao: ນົມສົ້ມ (lo) (nom som)
• Latin: melca f, (New Latin) iogurtum n
• Latvian: jogurts m
• Lithuanian: jogurtas m
• Luxembourgish: Jughurt (lb) m
• Macedonian: јо́гурт (mk) m (jógurt)
• Malay: yogurt
• Malayalam: തൈര് (ml) (tairŭ)
• Maltese: jowgart
• Manx: binjean m
• Maori: miraka tepe, waipupuru, waiū pupuru, mirakapē
• Marathi: दही n (dahī)
• Mongolian: тараг (mn) (tarag)
• Nepali: दहि (dahi)
• Nogai: ювырт (yuvırt)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: jogurt (no) m, yoghurt (no) m

  Nynorsk: yoghurt m, jogurt m

• Occitan: iogort (oc) m, iaort (oc) m
• Old Uyghur: 𐽶𐽳𐽲𐽾𐽳𐾀 (ywγrwt /⁠yoγrut⁠/)
• Oromo: itittuu
• Ottoman Turkish: یوغورت (yoğurt), لبن (leben)
• Pashto: ماسته (ps) f pl (māstᶕ), مستى f pl (masté)
• Persian: ماست (fa) (mâst), جغرات (fa) (joğrât)
• Polish: jogurt (pl) m
• Portuguese: iogurte (pt) m
• Quechua: yugur
• Romanian: iaurt (ro) n
• Romansch: jogurt m
• Russian: йо́гурт (ru) m (jógurt), простоква́ша (ru) f (prostokváša) (home made)
• Rwanda-Rundi: yawurute
• Sardinian: gioddu m
• Scottish Gaelic: iogart m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: јогурт m

  Roman: jogurt (sh) m

• Sicilian: jogurt m
• Sindhi: ڏهي (sd)
• Sinhalese: යෝගට් (yōgaṭ)
• Slovak: jogurt (sk) m
• Slovene: jogurt (sl) m
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: jogurt m

• Spanish: yogur (es) m, yogurt (es) m, yagurt m
• Swahili: maziwa ya mgando
• Swedish: yoghurt (sv) c
• Sylheti: ꠖꠂ (doi)
• Tagalog: yogart
• Tajik: ҷурғот (tg) (jurġot), мост (tg) (most), йогурт (tg) (yogurt), қатиқ (qatiq)
• Tamil: தயிர் (ta) (tayir)
• Tatar: йогырт (tt) (yoğırt), катык (tt) (qatıq)
• Telugu: పెరుగు (te) (perugu)
• Thai: โยเกิร์ต (yoo-gə̀ət), นมเปรี้ยว (nom-bprîao)
• Tibetan: ཞོ (zho)
• Tigrinya: ርግኦ (rəgʾo)
• Turkish: yoğurt (tr)
• Turkmen: gatyk, süzme, ýogurt
• Ukrainian: йо́гурт (uk) m (jóhurt), йо́ґурт m (jógurt), юґу́рт m (jugúrt)
• Urdu: دہی m (dahī)
• Uyghur: قايماق (qaymaq)
• Uzbek: qatiq (uz), yogurt (uz)
• Vietnamese: sữa chua (vi), da ua (vi)
• Welsh: iogwrt (cy) m
• Western Panjabi: یوگرٹ (yvgrṭ)
• Yiddish: יאָגורט m (yogurt)
• Zazaki: mast (diq) c, most (diq) c

See also

• buttermilk
• curd
• kefir
• whey

 

Further reading

• yogurt on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• grouty

Italian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Ottoman Turkish یوغورت (yoğurt).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈjɔ.ɡurt/
• Rhymes: -ɔɡurt
• Hyphenation: yò‧gurt

Noun

yogurt m (invariable)

1. yogurt

Derived terms

• yogurteria
• yogurtiera

Malay

Etymology

Borrowed from English yogurt.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /joɡut/, /joɡət/
• Rhymes: -ut, -ət

Noun

yogurt (Jawi spelling يوݢورت, plural yogurt-yogurt, informal 1st possessive yogurtku, 2nd possessive yogurtmu, 3rd possessive yogurtnya)

1. yogurt

Further reading

• “yogurt” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

Spanish

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ʝoˈɡuɾt/ [ɟ͡ʝoˈɣ̞uɾt̪]

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

• Rhymes: -uɾt
• Syllabification: yo‧gurt

Noun

yogurt m (plural yogurts)

1. Alternative form of yogur