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English
Etymology
From Middle English butter-melke, equivalent to butter + milk. Compare German Low German Bottermelk (“buttermilk”), German Buttermilch (“buttermilk”).
Pronunciation
Noun
buttermilk (countable and uncountable, plural buttermilks)
- The liquid left over after producing butter from full cream milk by the churning process, also called traditional buttermilk.
- Cultured buttermilk, a fermented dairy product produced from cow's milk, with a characteristically sour taste.
- A light yellow colour, like that of buttermilk. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
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Derived terms
Translations
traditional buttermilk
- Albanian: dhallë (sq) f
- Arabic: مَخِيض m (maḵīḍ), مَمْخُوض m (mamḵūḍ)
- Armenian: թան (hy) (tʻan)
- Aromanian: dhalã, dalã
- Belarusian: па́хта f (páxta), маслёнка f (masljónka)
- Bulgarian: мъ́теница (bg) f (mǎ́tenica)
- Catalan: sèrum de mantega m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 酪乳 (zh) (làorǔ), 酪漿/酪浆 (zh) (làojiāng)
- Czech: podmáslí (cs) n
- Danish: kærnemælk (da) c
- Dutch: karnemelk (nl) f, botermelk (nl) f
- Esperanto: buterlakto
- Estonian: pett (et), petipiim, võipiim
- Faroese: blak n
- Finnish: kirnupiimä (fi)
- French: babeurre (fr) m
- Galician: soro de manteiga
- Georgian: დო (ka) (do)
- German: Buttermilch (de) f
- Greek: βουτυρόγαλα (el) n (voutyrógala)
- Hawaiian: wai koʻana waiū paka
- Hebrew: חובצה \ חֻבְצָה (he)
- Hindi: छाछ (hi) f (chāch)
- Hungarian: író (hu)
- Icelandic: áfir (is) f pl
- Ingrian: kirnumaito, pettömaito, pettopiimä, pettypiimä
- Irish: bláthach f
- Old Irish: bláthach f
- Italian: latticello (it) m
- Japanese: バターミルク (batāmiruku)
- Kannada: ಮಜ್ಜಿಗೆ (kn) (majjige)
- Korean: 버터밀크 (beoteomilkeu)
- Ladin: nida f
- Lao: ກາກນ້ຳນົມ (kāk nam nom)
- Latvian: paniņas (lv) f pl
- Luxembourgish: Bottermëllech f
- Macedonian: матеница (matenica)
- Manx: bainney geayr m
- Marathi: ताक n (tāk)
- Norman: lait d'beurre m (Jersey)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: kjernemelk m or f, kjernemjølk (no) m or f
- Nynorsk: kjernemjølk f
- Persian: دوغ (fa) (duğ), پینو (fa) (pinu)
- Polish: maślanka (pl) f
- Portuguese: leitelho m, soro de manteiga m
- Punjabi: ਛਾਹ f (chāh), ਲੱਸੀ f (lassī)
- Romanian: zară (ro) f
- Russian: па́хта (ru) f (páxta)
- Sanskrit: तक्रम् (sa) n (takram)
- Santali: ᱜᱷᱳᱨ (ghor)
- Scottish Gaelic: blàthach f
- Serbo-Croatian: mlaćènica f, stȅpka (sh) f
- Slovak: cmar (sk) m
- Slovene: pinjenec (sl) m
- Spanish: suero de mantequilla m
- Swedish: kärnmjölk (sv) c
- Tamil: மோர் (ta) (mōr)
- Telugu: చల్ల (te) (calla), మజ్జిగ (te) (majjiga)
- Tibetan: དར་བ (dar ba)
- Turkish: yayık ayranı
- Ukrainian: масля́нка f (masljánka), сколо́тини pl (skolótyny)
- Urdu: چھاچھ f (chāch)
- Uzbek: ayron (uz), ardob (uz)
- Vietnamese: kho thực phẩm
- Welsh: llaeth enwyn (cy) m, enwyn m
- West Frisian: sûpe (fy)
- Yiddish: פּוטערמילך (putermilkh), מאַסלינקע (maslinke)
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