buttermilk

English

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English butter-melke, equivalent to butter +‎ milk. Cognate with German Low German Bottermelk (“buttermilk”), German Buttermilch (“buttermilk”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈbʌtɚˌmɪlk/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈbʌtəˌmɪlk/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Hyphenation: but‧ter‧milk

Noun

buttermilk (countable and uncountable, plural buttermilks)

1. The liquid left over after producing butter from full cream milk by the churning process, also called traditional buttermilk.
   • 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 52:

     An anti-aphrodisiac, suggested in Hindu erotological literature as a way for women to negate amatory challenges, is to bathe in the buttermilk of a she-buffalo.

2. Cultured buttermilk, a fermented dairy product produced from cow's milk, with a characteristically sour taste.
3. A light yellow color, like that of buttermilk. (Can we add an example for this sense?)

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Derived terms

• Bulgarian buttermilk
• buttermilky
• Devil's buttermilk
• fly in the buttermilk

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) Gujarati: છાશ f (chāś) Hawaiian: wai koʻana waiū paka Hebrew: חובצה \ חֻבְצָה (he) f (khuvtsá) 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 Low German: German Low German: Karnmelk (nds) f, Karmelk f, Kernmelk f, Bottermelk (nds) f 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 Pannonian Rusyn: цмар m (cmar) Persian: دوغ (fa) (duġ), پینو (fa) (pinu) Plautdietsch: Bottamalkj f, Bottamaltj f, Bottermalkj f, Bottermaltj f 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 f (putermilkh), פּוטער־מילעך f (puter-milekh), מאַסלינקע f (maslinke), מאַסליאַנקע f (maslyanke), מאַשלינקע f (mashlinke)

cultured buttermilk

Arabic: دُوغ m (dūḡ) Chinese: Mandarin: 發酵酪乳 / 发酵酪乳 (fājiào làorǔ) Danish: please add this translation if you can Dutch: botermelk (nl) f Estonian: (please verify) kefiir, (please verify) keefir Finnish: piimä (fi) Georgian: დო (ka) (do) Greek: ξινόγαλα (el) f (xinógala) Hindi: छाछ (hi) (chāch) Kannada: ಮಜ್ಜಿಗೆ (kn) (majjige) Macedonian: матеница f (matenica) Polish: maślanka (pl) f Portuguese: leitelho cultivado m Russian: батерми́лк m (batermílk) Spanish: suero de mantequilla m Tamil: மோர் (ta) (mōr) West Frisian: sûpe (fy)

See also

• curd
• milk
• whey
• yoghurt