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A fermented drink made from mare's milk, common among peoples of the Central Asian steppes.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable, usually
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
an alcoholic beverage made from fermented mare's milk; made originally by nomads of central Asia
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: kumis
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: alcohol, alcoholic drink, alcoholic beverage, intoxicant, inebriant
Via French koumis, German Kumiss, from Russian кумы́с (kumýs), borrowed from a Turkic source. Compare Tatar кымыз (qımız), Kazakh қымыз (qymyz), Kyrgyz кымыз (kımız), Southern Altai кымыс (kïmïs), Turkish kımız, Azerbaijani qımız, Northern Altai кымыс (kïmïs), etc.
Across languages
Translations
60 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Northern Altai:
кымыс
(kïmïs)
— fermented drink
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Southern Altai:
кымыс
(kïmïs)
— fermented drink
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Arabic:
قَمِيز
(qamīz)
— fermented drink
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Arabic:
كُومِيس
(kūmīs)
— fermented drink
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Armenian:
կումիս
(kumis)
— fermented drink
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Azerbaijani:
qımız
— fermented drink
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Bashkir:
ҡымыҙ
(qımıź)
— fermented drink
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Belarusian:
кумы́с
(kumýs)
— fermented drink
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Bulgarian:
куми́с
(kumís)
— fermented drink
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Buryat:
сэгээ
(segee)
— fermented drink
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Catalan:
kumis
— fermented drink
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Chinese Mandarin:
馬奶酒 /马奶酒
(mǎnǎijiǔ)
— fermented drink
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Czech:
kumys
— fermented drink
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Dutch:
koemis
— fermented drink
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Esperanto:
kumiso
— fermented drink
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Faroese:
kumys
— fermented drink
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Finnish:
kumissi
— fermented drink
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French:
koumis
— fermented drink
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Georgian:
კუმისი
(ḳumisi)
— fermented drink
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German:
Kumys
— fermented drink
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Hebrew:
קומיס
(qimis)
— fermented drink
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Hungarian:
kumisz
— fermented drink
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Italian:
kumis
— fermented drink
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Japanese:
馬乳酒
(banyūshu)
— fermented drink
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Japanese:
クミス
(kumisu)
— fermented drink
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Kazakh:
қымыз
(qymyz)
— fermented drink
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Khakas:
хымыс
(xımıs)
— fermented drink
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Korean:
마유주
(mayuju)
— fermented drink
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Korean:
쿠미스
(kumiseu)
— fermented drink
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Kumyk:
къымыз
(qımız)
— fermented drink
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Kyrgyz:
кымыз
(kımız)
— fermented drink
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Latin:
cosmos
— fermented drink
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Lithuanian:
kumysas
— fermented drink
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Mongolian:
айраг
(ajrag)
— fermented drink
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Mongolian:
цэгээ
(cegee)
— fermented drink
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Mongolian:
ᠠᠶᠢᠷᠠᠭ
(ayiraɣ)
— fermented drink
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Mongolian:
ᠴᠡᠭᠡ
(čege)
— fermented drink
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Nogai:
кымыз
(kımız)
— fermented drink
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Persian:
کومیس
(kumis)
— fermented drink
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Persian:
قمیز
(qemiz)
— fermented drink
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Piedmontese:
koumyss
— fermented drink
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Polish:
kumys
— fermented drink
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Portuguese:
kumis
— fermented drink
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Russian:
кумы́с
(kumýs)
— fermented drink
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Shor:
қымыс
— fermented drink
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Slovak:
kumys
— fermented drink
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Spanish:
kumis
— fermented drink
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Swedish:
kumys
— fermented drink
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Swedish:
kumiss
— fermented drink
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Tatar:
кымыз
(qımız)
— fermented drink
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Turkish:
kımız
— fermented drink
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Turkmen:
gymyz
— fermented drink
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Tuvan:
хымыс
(xımıs)
— fermented drink
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Ukrainian:
куми́с
(kumýs)
— fermented drink
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Uyghur:
قىمىز
(qimiz)
— fermented drink
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Uzbek:
qimiz
— fermented drink
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Vietnamese:
rượu sữa ngựa
— fermented drink
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Welsh:
cwmis
— fermented drink
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Welsh:
gwirod llaeth
— fermented drink
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Yakut:
кымыс
(kïmïs)
— fermented drink
