yolk

English

yolk of an egg

Alternative forms

• yelk (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English yolke, yelke, ȝolke, ȝelke, from Old English ġeolca, ġeoloca, ġioleca (“the yellow part, yolk”), from ġeolu (“yellow”). Doublet of gowk (“apple core”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /jəʊk/
• Rhymes: -əʊk
• (US) IPA^(key): /joʊ(l)k/, /jɔlk/

• Audio (US)

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• Homophone: yoke

Noun

yolk (countable and uncountable, plural yolks)

1. The yellow, spherical part of an egg that is surrounded by the white albumen, and serves as nutriment for the growing young.

   Synonyms: egg yolk, vitellus

   Coordinate term: egg white

   To make meringue, you have to separate the white from the yolk.

2. The grease in a sheep's fleece; lanolin.
   • 1846, The Cultivator, page 270:

     Wool-growers appear to entertain different opinions in regard to the effect which yolk has on the value of the fleece. Some seem to suppose that the aggregate amount which they receive for their wool is increased from the greater weight which it possesses by being charged with this substance […]

Derived terms

• egg yolk
• yolkless
• yolklike
• yolk plug
• yolk sac

 

Translations

yellow of egg

• Adyghe: кӏэнкӏэ кугъу (kʼɛnkʼɛ kʷuğʷu)
• Afrikaans: eiergeel
• Albanian: verdhë veze
• Arabic: صَفَار اَلْبَيْض‎ (ṣafār al-bayḍ), أَصْفَر اَلْبَيْض‎ m (ʔaṣfar al-bayḍ), مُحّ‎ m (muḥḥ)

  Egyptian Arabic: صفار‎ m (ṣafār)

  Hijazi Arabic: صفار‎ m (ṣafār)

• Armenian: դեղնուց (hy) (deġnucʿ)
• Aromanian: gãlbinush
• Assamese: কুহুম (kuhum)
• Asturian: yema f
• Azerbaijani: yumurta sarısı
• Basque: gorringo
• Bau Bidayuh: sikonang
• Belarusian: жаўто́к m (žaŭtók)
• Bengali: please add this translation if you can
• Breton: melen-vi (br) m
• Bulgarian: жълтък (bg) m (žǎltǎk)
• Burmese: အနှစ် (my) (a.hnac)
• Catalan: rovell (ca) m
• Cebuano: pughak
• Central Melanau: kunieng teloh
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 蛋黃／蛋黄 (daan^6-2 wong^4-2), 黃／黄 (yue) (wong^4-2)

  Mandarin: 蛋黃／蛋黄 (zh) (dànhuáng)

• Czech: žloutek (cs) m
• Danish: æggeblomme (da) c
• Dutch: dooier (nl) m, eidooier (nl) m, eigeel (nl) n, eierdooier (nl) m
• Erzya: алтюжа (alťuža)
• Esperanto: ovoflavo
• Estonian: please add this translation if you can
• Faroese: reyði m, eggjareyði m
• Finnish: munankeltuainen (fi), keltuainen (fi), ruskuainen (fi)
• French: jaune d’œuf (fr) m, jaune (fr) m, moyeu (fr) m (old)
• Galician: xema (gl) f
• Georgian: კვერცხის გული (ḳvercxis guli)
• German: Dotter (de) m, Eidotter (de) m or n, Eigelb (de) n, Gelbei n
• Greek: κρόκος (el) m (krókos), κροκάδι n (krokádi)

  Ancient: λέκιθος f (lékithos)

• Hebrew: חֶלְמוֹן‎ (he) m (khelmón)
• Hiligaynon: batog
• Hindi: ज़रदी f (zardī), ज़र्दी f (zardī)
• Hungarian: tojássárgája (hu), sárgája (hu), szik (hu)
• Icelandic: eggjarauða (is) f, eggjablómi m
• Ido: vitelo (io)
• Indonesian: kuning telur (id)
• Ingrian: ruskulain
• Iranun: please add this translation if you can
• Irish: buíocán m
• Italian: tuorlo (it) m, rosso d'uovo m
• Japanese: 卵黄 (ja) (らんおう, ran'ō), 黄身 (ja) (きみ, kimi), 蛋黄 (たんおう, tan'ō, たんこう, tankō)
• Kabardian: джэдыкӏэ кугъуэ (džɛdəkʼɛ kʷuğʷɛ)
• Kabuverdianu: jéma
• Kalmyk: өндгн (öndgn)
• Khün: ᨾᩬᩁᨡᩱ᩵
• Kinaray-a: batog
• Korean: 노른자 (ko) (noreunja), 난황(卵黃) (nanhwang)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: زەردێنە‎ (ckb) (zerdêne)

  Northern Kurdish: zerik (ku) f, zerika hêkê (ku) f

• Lao: ມອນໄຂ່ (lo) (mǭn khai), ໄຂ່ແດງ (khai dǣng)
• Latin: vitellus m, vitellum n
• Latvian: dzeltenums m
• Lithuanian: trynys m
• Low German:

  German Low German: Dodder m, Eigeel n

• Lü: ᦙᦸᧃᦺᦃᧈ (moanẋay¹), ᦺᦃᧈᦡᦶᧂ (ẋay¹ḋaeng)
• Luxembourgish: Dueder m, Eegiel n
• Macedonian: жо́лчка f (žólčka)
• Maguindanao: mariga sa leman
• Malay: kuning telur (ms), yolka
• Maltese: l-isfar tal-bajd
• Manchu: ᠶᠣᡥᠣ (yoho)
• Maranao: please add this translation if you can
• Mongolian: ѳндѳгний шар (öndögnii šar)
• Northern Thai: ᨾᩬᩁᨡᩱ᩵, ᨡᩱ᩵ᨯᩯ᩠ᨦ
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: eggeplomme (no) m or f, plomme (no) m or f

  Nynorsk: eggeplomme f

• Old English: ġeoloca m
• Ossetian: айчы бур (ajḱy bur)
• Ottoman Turkish: یومورطه صاریسی‎ (yumurta sarısı)
• Persian: زرده‎ (fa) (zarde)
• Polish: żółtko (pl) n
• Portuguese: gema (pt) f
• Rohingya: please add this translation if you can
• Romanian: gălbenuș (ro) n
• Romansch: (Rumantsch Grischun, Surmiran) mellen d'ov m, (Sursilvan) mellen d'iev m, (Sutsilvan) melen d'ov m, (Puter) mellan d'öv m, (Vallader) gelg d'öv m
• Russian: желто́к (ru) m (želtók)
• Saho: please add this translation if you can
• Scottish Gaelic: buidheagan m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: жуманце n, жуманaц m, жумањак m

  Roman: žumance (sh) n, žumanac m, žumánjak (sh) m

• Shan: မွၼ်းၶႆႇ (máun khài), ၶႆႇလႅင် (khài lěng)
• Slovak: žĺtok m
• Slovene: rumenjak (sl) m
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: cenk m

  Upper Sorbian: žołtk m, žołte n, čwork m

• Spanish: yema (es) f
• Swedish: äggula (sv) c, gula (sv) c
• Sylheti: ꠇꠥ (ku)
• Tagalog: pula ng itlog, apyak, burok
• Tahitian: reʻa
• Tai Dam: ꪣꪮꪙꪼꪎ꪿, ꪼꪎ꪿ꪵꪒꪉ
• Tarifit: rmeḥḥ m
• Tausug: please add this translation if you can
• Thai: ไข่แดง (th) (kài-dɛɛng)
• Turkish: yumurta sarısı (tr)
• Ukrainian: жовто́к m (žovtók)
• Urdu: زردی‎ (zardi)
• Uzbek: tuxumning sarig'i
• Vietnamese: lòng đỏ
• Walloon: djaene d'oû m, ploumete (wa) f, cassete, moyoû (wa) m
• Welsh: melynwy m
• Yakan: igad
• Yiddish: געלכל‎ n (gelkhl)
• Zhuang: gyaeqhenj, gyaeqhak, myonzlieng, hakhenj
• ǃXóõ: ǁáa

Further reading

• yolk on Wikipedia.Wikipedia