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kaymak

noun · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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noun

Meaning 1

A creamy dairy product, similar to clotted cream, made in the Balkans, Turkey, the Middle East, Central Asia, Iran, Afghanistan, and India. It is made from the milk of water buffalos in the East or of cows in the West.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: uncountable

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History

Etymology

Borrowed from Turkish kaymak (“cream”), from Ottoman Turkish قایماق.

Across languages

Translations

36 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Northern Altai: каймак (kaymak) — creamy dairy product
  • Southern Altai: каймак (kaymak) — creamy dairy product
  • Azerbaijani: qaymaq — creamy dairy product
  • Bashkir: ҡаймаҡ (qaymaq) — creamy dairy product
  • Finnish: kaymak — creamy dairy product
  • French: kaïmac — creamy dairy product
  • Greek: καϊμάκι (kaïmáki) — creamy dairy product
  • Hindi: कायमाक (kāymāk) — creamy dairy product
  • Karakalpak: qaymaq — creamy dairy product
  • Kazakh: қаймақ (qaimaq) — creamy dairy product
  • Kumyk: къаймакъ (qaymaq) — creamy dairy product
  • Kyrgyz: каймак (kaymak) — creamy dairy product
  • Lezgi: къаймах (q̄ajmaꭓ) — creamy dairy product
  • Macedonian: кајмак (kajmak) — creamy dairy product
  • Nogai: каймак (kaymak) — creamy dairy product
  • Persian: قیماق (qeymâq) — creamy dairy product
  • Persian: کیماک (kimâk) — creamy dairy product
  • Persian: شمه (šeme) — creamy dairy product
  • Polish: kajmak — creamy dairy product
  • Romanian: caimac — creamy dairy product
  • Russian: кайма́к (kajmák) — creamy dairy product
  • Serbo-Croatian: ка̀јмак — creamy dairy product
  • Serbo-Croatian: скоруп — creamy dairy product
  • Serbo-Croatian: врхње — creamy dairy product
  • Serbo-Croatian: kàjmak — creamy dairy product
  • Shor: қаймақ — creamy dairy product
  • Siberian Tatar: ҡаймаҡ — creamy dairy product
  • Slovene: kajmak — creamy dairy product
  • Tajik: қаймоқ (qaymoq) — creamy dairy product
  • Tatar: каймак (qaymaq) — creamy dairy product
  • Turkish: kaymak — creamy dairy product
  • Ottoman Turkish: قایماق (kaymak) — creamy dairy product
  • Turkmen: gaýmak — creamy dairy product
  • Ukrainian: кайма́к (kajmák) — creamy dairy product
  • Uyghur: قايماق (qaymaq) — creamy dairy product
  • Uzbek: qaymoq — creamy dairy product