yogourt

From French yogourt, yoghourt, from Turkish; see yogurt.

yogourt (countable and uncountable, plural yogourts)

1. Canada spelling of yogurt.

The spelling yogourt is common on product labels in Canada because it is valid in both English and French, as products are required to be labelled in both languages. Yogurt remains by far the most common spelling in other contexts, however.^[1]

• Katherine Barber, editor (1998), “yogourt”, in The Canadian Oxford Dictionary, Don Mills, Ont.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN.

• yaourt (France, Belgium)

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish یوغورت (yōghurt, yoğurt) (Modern Turkish yoğurt). The form yogourt comes from the original Ottoman Turkish whilst the form yaourt comes from the variation yoğurt which is now the standard in Modern Turkish. Compare with cognates of the word in many European languages, e.g. German Joghurt, Italian iogurt, Finnish jogurtti.

• (Canada) IPA^(key): /jɔ.ɡuʁ/, /jo.ɡuʁ/
• (Europe) IPA^(key): /jɔ.ɡuʁt/; /jo.ɡuʁt/

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yogourt m (plural yogourts)

1. (North America, Switzerland, Belgium, Rwanda, Congo) yogurt
2. post-1990 spelling of yoghourt

The form yogourt is common on product labels in Canada because it is valid in both English and French, as products are required to be labelled in both languages.^[1]

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