yogurt

See also: yoğurt

English

Alternative forms

obsolete spellings[1]

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish یوغورت (yoğurt).[1][2][3][4] Ultimately from Proto-Turkic *yogrut.

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) enPR: yŏʹgət, IPA(key): /ˈjɒ.ɡət/,[1]
    • Audio (UK):(file)
  • (General American) enPR: yōʹgərt, IPA(key): /ˈjoʊ.ɡɚt/
    • Audio (US):(file)
  • (General Australian) enPR: yōʹgət, IPA(key): /ˈjəʉ.ɡət/
  • Rhymes: (Received Pronunciation) -ɒɡət

Noun

yogurt (countable and uncountable, plural yogurts)

  2. 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.
  3. (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

Descendants

  • → Cornish: yogort
  • → Welsh: iogwrt
  • → Yoruba: yúgọ́ọ̀tì

Translations

See also

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 “yogurt” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary, second edition, 1989
  2. ^ “yogurt”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
  3. ^ “yogurt”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present. (including The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, fourth edition, 2004)
  4. ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2025) “yogurt”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

Further reading

Anagrams

Italian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Ottoman Turkish یوغورت (yoğurt).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈjɔ.ɡurt/[1]
  • Rhymes: -ɔɡurt
  • Hyphenation: yò‧gurt

Noun

yogurt m (invariable)

  1. yogurt

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ yogurt in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

Malay

Etymology

Borrowed from English yogurt.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

yogurt (Jawi spelling يوݢورت, plural yogurt-yogurt)

  1. yogurt

Further reading

Spanish

Pronunciation

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

  • Rhymes: -uɾt
  • Syllabification: yo‧gurt

Noun

yogurt m (plural yogurts)

  1. alternative form of yogur

Swedish

Noun

yogurt c

  1. misspelling of yoghurt

Declension

Declension of yogurt
nominative genitive
singular indefinite yogurt yogurts
definite yogurten yogurtens
plural indefinite yogurtar yogurtars
definite yogurtarna yogurtarnas

References

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