Standard Lemma guide

milk

name · noun · verb · 21 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

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  • mĭlk
  • /mɪlk/
  • UK: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • US: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • Canada, Inland-Northern-American, uncommon: [mɛlk]
  • Southern-US, uncommon: [milk]
  • rhymes with -ɪlk
  • rhymes with -ɛlk
  • CMU ARPABET: M IH1 L K Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

name

Meaning 1

A surname.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

A white liquid produced by the mammary glands of female mammals to nourish their young. From certain animals, especially cows, it is also called dairy milk and is a common food for humans as a beverage or used to produce various dairy products such as butter, cheese, and yogurt.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: uncountable

Examples

  • Skyr is a product made of curdled milk.
  • 2007 September 24, Chris Horseman (interviewee), Emily Harris (reporter), “Global Dairy Demand Drives Up Prices”, Morning Edition, National Public Radio [...] there's going to be that much less milk available to cover any other uses. Which means whether it's liquid milk or whether it's [milk that's been turned into] cheese or yogurt, the price gets pulled up right across the board.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: dairy milk, cowmilk, cow's milk

Antonyms: none provided

3

noun

Meaning 3

A white (or whitish) liquid obtained from a vegetable source such as almonds, coconuts, oats, rice, or soy beans.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: broadly, uncountable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: m*lk, mylk, non-dairy milk, plant milk

Antonyms: none provided

4

noun

Meaning 4

An individual serving of milk.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, informal

Examples

  • Table three ordered three milks.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

5

noun

Meaning 5

An individual portion of milk, such as found in a creamer, for tea and coffee.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, invariable

Examples

  • I take my tea with two milks and two sugars.
  • I take my tea with two milk and two sugar.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

6

noun

Meaning 6

The ripe, undischarged spat of an oyster.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

7

noun

Meaning 7

Semen.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: slang, uncountable, vulgar

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

8

verb

Meaning 8

To express milk from (a mammal, especially a cow).

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: transitive

Examples

  • The farmer milked his cows.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

9

verb

Meaning 9

To draw (milk) from the breasts or udder.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: intransitive, transitive

Examples

  • to milk wholesome milk from healthy cows

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

10

verb

Meaning 10

To secrete (milk) from the breasts or udder.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: intransitive, rare, transitive

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

11

verb

Meaning 11

To express a liquid from a creature.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: transitive

Examples

  • The Australian government has a team that regularly milks various snakes for venom to use creating serums and antivenoms.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

12

verb

Meaning 12

To make excessive use of (a particular point in speech or writing, a source of funds, etc.); to exploit; to take advantage of (something).

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: figuratively, transitive

Examples

  • When the audience began laughing, the comedian milked the joke for more laughs.
  • July 21, 1877, "The Block in the Courts" in The Spectator They [the lawyers] milk an unfortunate estate as regularly as a dairyman does his stock.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

13

verb

Meaning 13

To give off small gas bubbles during the final part of the charging operation.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

14

verb

Meaning 14

To masturbate a male to ejaculation, especially for the amusement or satisfaction of the masturbator rather than the person masturbated.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: transitive, vulgar

Topics: BDSM, lifestyle, sexuality

Examples

  • Controlled milking can actually establish and consolidate a mistress’s dominance over her sub rather than diminish it.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: masturbate

Antonyms: none provided

15

noun

Meaning 15

produced by mammary glands of female mammals for feeding their young

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: liquid body substance, bodily fluid, body fluid, humor, humour, nutriment, nourishment, nutrition, sustenance, aliment, alimentation, victuals

Narrower terms: mother's milk, colostrum, foremilk

16

noun

Meaning 16

a white nutritious liquid secreted by mammals and used as food by human beings

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: dairy product, beverage, drink, drinkable, potable

Narrower terms: sour milk, pasteurized milk, cows' milk, yak's milk, goats' milk, acidophilus milk, raw milk, scalded milk, homogenized milk, certified milk, powdered milk, dry milk, dried milk, milk powder, evaporated milk, condensed milk, skim milk, skimmed milk, semi-skimmed milk, whole milk, low-fat milk, buttermilk, chocolate milk

17

noun

Meaning 17

any of several nutritive milklike liquids

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: foodstuff, food product

Narrower terms: coconut milk, coconut water, coconut cream, soya milk, soybean milk, soymilk, formula

18

noun

Meaning 18

a river that rises in the Rockies in northwestern Montana and flows eastward to become a tributary of the Missouri River

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: Milk River

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: river

19

verb

Meaning 19

take milk from female mammals

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • Cows need to be milked every morning

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: draw, take out

Narrower terms: strip

20

verb

Meaning 20

add milk to

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • milk the tea

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: add

21

verb

Meaning 21

exploit as much as possible

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • I am milking this for all it's worth

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: exploit, tap

History

Etymology

From Middle English milk, mylk, melk, mulc, from Old English meolc, meoluc (“milk”), from Proto-West Germanic *meluk (“milk”), from Proto-Germanic *meluks (“milk”), from Proto-Indo-European *h2melǵ- (“milk, to milk”). Cognates Cognate with West Frisian molke (“milk”), Dutch melk (“milk”), Dutch Low Saxon melk (“milk”), German Milch (“milk”), German Low German Melk (“milk”), Yiddish מילך (milkh, “milk”), Danish mælk (“milk”), Faroese and Icelandic mjólk (“milk”), Norn *mjølk (“milk”), Norwegian Bokmål melk, mjølk (“milk”), Norwegian Nynorsk mjølk (“milk”), Swedish mjölk (“milk”), Gothic 𐌼𐌹𐌻𐌿𐌺𐍃 (miluks, “milk”), Greek αμέλγω (amélgo, “to milk”), Albanian mjel (“to milk”), Latvian malks, Lithuanian malkas, Belarusian малако́ (malakó, “milk”), Bulgarian мля́ко (mljáko, “milk”), Czech mléko, Macedonian мле́ко (mléko, “milk”), Polish mleko (“milk”), Russian and Ukrainian молоко́ (molokó, “milk”), Serbo-Croatian mlijéko (“milk”), Slovak mlieko (“milk”), Slovene mlẹ́ko (“milk”), Welsh blith, Tocharian A malke.

From Middle English milken, from Old English melcan, from Proto-Germanic *melkaną, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h2melǵ-, the same root as the noun. Compare Dutch and German melken, Danish malke, Norwegian mjølke, also Latin mulgeō (“to milk”), Ancient Greek ἀμέλγω (amélgō, “to milk”), Albanian mjel (“to milk”), Russian молоко́ (molokó), Lithuanian mélžti, Tocharian A mālk-.

Across languages

Translations

645 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Abkhaz: ахш (axŝ) — liquid
  • Ngochang: nauh — liquid
  • Afar: can — liquid
  • Afrikaans: melk — liquid
  • Aguaruna: munȼu — liquid
  • Ainu: トペ (tope) — liquid
  • Aklanon: gatas — liquid
  • Albanian: qumësht — liquid
  • Albanian: tambël — liquid
  • Southern Altai: сӱт (süt) — liquid
  • Amharic: ወተት (wätät) — liquid
  • Arabic: حَلِيب (ḥalīb) — liquid
  • Arabic: لَبَن (laban) — liquid
  • Chadian Arabic: لبن (laban) — liquid
  • Arabic: لبن (laban) — liquid
  • Arabic: حليب (ḥalīb) — liquid
  • Arabic: حليب (ḥalīb) — liquid
  • Arabic: حليب (ḥlīb) — liquid
  • Arabic: حليب (ḥalīb) — liquid
  • Arabic: حليب (ḥalīb) — liquid
  • Aragonese: leit — liquid
  • Aragonese: let — liquid
  • Aramaic: ܚܠܒܐ (ḥaləḇā) — liquid
  • Jewish Babylonian Aramaic: חַלְבָּא (ḥalbā) — liquid
  • Arapaho: beθéneč — liquid
  • Armenian: կաթ (katʻ) — liquid
  • Aromanian: lapte — liquid
  • Assamese: গাখীৰ (gakhir) — liquid
  • Asturian: lleche — liquid
  • Asturian: tsechi — liquid
  • Avar: рахь (rax̂) — liquid
  • Awadhi: दूध (dūdh) — liquid
  • Aymara: millk'i — liquid
  • Azerbaijani: süd — liquid
  • Bakhtiari: شیر (šir) — liquid
  • Baluchi: شیر (šír) — liquid
  • Bambara: nɔnɔ — liquid
  • Banyumasan: susu — liquid
  • Bashkir: һөт (höt) — liquid
  • Basque: esne — liquid
  • Bats: შურ (šur) — liquid
  • Belarusian: малако́ (malakó) — liquid
  • Bengali: দুধ (dudh) — liquid
  • Central Bikol: gatas — liquid
  • Bislama: susu — liquid
  • Brahui: palle — liquid
  • Breton: laezh — liquid
  • Bulgarian: мля́ко (mljáko) — liquid
  • Burmese: နို့ (nui.) — liquid
  • Buryat: һүн (hün) — liquid
  • Carpathian Rusyn: молоко́ (molokó) — liquid
  • Catalan: llet — liquid
  • Cebuano: gatas — liquid
  • Cebuano: letse — liquid
  • Chamicuro: tensa — liquid
  • Chechen: шура (šura) — liquid
  • Cherokee: ᎤᏅᏗ (unvdi) — liquid
  • Cheyenne: matana — liquid
  • Chichewa: mkaka — liquid
  • Chinese Cantonese: 奶 (naai5) — liquid
  • Chinese Cantonese: 乳 (jyu5) — liquid
  • Chinese: нэзы (nezɨ) — liquid
  • Chinese: 奶 (zh-min-nan) — liquid
  • Chinese Mandarin: 奶 (nǎi) — liquid
  • Chinese Mandarin: 乳 (rǔ) — liquid
  • Chinese Mandarin: 乳汁 (rǔzhī) — liquid
  • Chinese Mandarin: 牛乳 (niúrǔ) — liquid
  • Wu Chinese: 乳 — liquid
  • Wu Chinese: 奶 (6na) — liquid
  • Chukchi: лывээръын (lyvėėrʺyn) — liquid
  • Chuukese: minik — liquid
  • Chuvash: сӗт (sĕt) — liquid
  • East Circassian: шэ (šɛ) — liquid
  • West Circassian: щэ (śɛ) — liquid
  • Cornish: leth — liquid
  • Corsican: latti — liquid
  • Cree: ᒎᒎᔑᓈᐴ (coocooshinaapoo) — liquid
  • Atikamekw: tcotcocanapo — liquid
  • Crimean Tatar: süt — liquid
  • Czech: mléko — liquid
  • Danish: mælk — liquid
  • Dargwa: ниъ (niʾ) — liquid
  • Dhivehi: ކިރު (kiru) — liquid
  • Dogrib: ejietʼò — liquid
  • Dutch: melk — liquid
  • Dzongkha: འོ་མ ('o ma) — liquid
  • Egyptian: i-r:T:t-W20 (jrṯt) — liquid
  • Elfdalian: mjok — liquid
  • Erzya: ловсо (lovso) — liquid
  • Esperanto: lakto — liquid
  • Estonian: piim — liquid
  • Even: өкэнь (ökəņ) — liquid
  • Evenki: укумни (ukumņi) — liquid
  • Ewe: notsi — liquid
  • Ewe: nyinotsi — liquid
  • Extremaduran: lechi — liquid
  • Faroese: mjólk — liquid
  • Fataluku: ami — liquid
  • Finnish: maito — liquid
  • French: lait — liquid
  • North Frisian: molke — liquid
  • Saterland Frisian: Molk — liquid
  • West-Frisian: molke — liquid
  • Friulian: lat — liquid
  • Fulani: kosam — liquid
  • Gagauz: süt — liquid
  • Galician: leite — liquid
  • Garhwali: दूद (dūd) — liquid
  • Ge'ez: ሐሊብ (ḥälib) — liquid
  • Georgian: რძე (rʒe) — liquid
  • German: Milch — liquid
  • German: Milch — liquid
  • Bavarian German: Mille — liquid
  • Bavarian German: Muich — liquid
  • Gilbertese: miriki — liquid
  • Godoberi: щи̃ву (ʃːĩwu) — liquid
  • Gothic: 𐌼𐌹𐌻𐌿𐌺𐍃 (miluks) — liquid
  • Greek: γάλα (gála) — liquid
  • Ancient Greek: γάλα (gála) — liquid
  • Greenlandic: immuk — liquid
  • Guinea-Bissau Creole: liti — liquid
  • Gujarati: દૂધ (dūdh) — liquid
  • Haitian Creole: lèt — liquid
  • Hausa: madara — liquid
  • Hausa: nono — liquid
  • Hawaiian: waiū — liquid
  • Hebrew: חָלָב (khaláv) — liquid
  • Hindi: दूध (dūdh) — liquid
  • Hindi: शीर (śīr) — liquid
  • White Hmong: mis — liquid
  • Hungarian: tej — liquid
  • Icelandic: mjólk — liquid
  • Ido: lakto — liquid
  • Indonesian: susu — liquid
  • Ingrian: maito — liquid
  • Ingrian: piimä — liquid
  • Ingush: шура (šura) — liquid
  • Interlingua: lacte — liquid
  • Inuktitut: ᐃᒻᒧᒃ (immok) — liquid
  • Inupiaq: immuk — liquid
  • Irish: bainne — liquid
  • Old Irish: lacht — liquid
  • Old Irish: bainne — liquid
  • Isnag: xatta — liquid
  • Isoko: imiliki — liquid
  • Istro-Romanian: låpte — liquid
  • Italian: latte — liquid
  • Japanese: 乳 (chichi) — liquid
  • Japanese: 乳汁 (nyūjū) — liquid
  • Japanese: ミルク (miruku) — liquid
  • Japanese: 牛乳 (gyūnyū) — liquid
  • Javanese: susu — liquid
  • Jingpho: chyu — liquid
  • Jumjum: aak — liquid
  • Kaitag: нег (neg) — liquid
  • Kalmyk: үсн (üsn) — liquid
  • Kambaata: ado — liquid
  • Kannada: ಹಾಲು (hālu) — liquid
  • Kanuri: câm — liquid
  • Karachay-Balkar: сют (süt) — liquid
  • Karelian: maido — liquid
  • Kashmiri: دۄد (dọd) — liquid
  • Kashmiri: द्वद (dwad) — liquid
  • Kashubian: mlékò — liquid
  • Kazakh: сүт (süt) — liquid
  • Ket: mamul — liquid
  • Khakas: сӱт (süt) — liquid
  • Khmer: ទឹកដោះ (tɨk dɑh) — liquid
  • Khmer: ទឹកដោះគោ (tɨk dɑh koo) — liquid
  • Kikuyu: iria — liquid
  • Komi-Permyak: йӧв (jöv) — liquid
  • Konkani: दूद (dūd) — liquid
  • Korean: 젖 (jeot) — liquid
  • Korean: 유즙 (yujeup) — liquid
  • Korean: 밀크 (milkeu) — liquid
  • Korean: 우유 (uyu) — liquid
  • Central Kurdish: شیر (şîr) — liquid
  • Northern Kurdish: şîr — liquid
  • Kyrgyz: сүт (süt) — liquid
  • Laboya: huhhu — liquid
  • Ladakhi: འོ་མ ('o ma) — liquid
  • Ladino: leche — liquid
  • Lahnda: ਦੁੱਧ (duddh) — liquid
  • Lakota: asáŋpi — liquid
  • Lao: ນ້ໍານົມ (nam nom) — liquid
  • Lao: ນົມ (nom) — liquid
  • Latgalian: pīns — liquid
  • Latin: lac — liquid
  • Latvian: piens — liquid
  • Laz: ბჯა (bca) — liquid
  • Lezgi: нек (nek) — liquid
  • Lhao Vo: nug' — liquid
  • Lhao Vo: nung: nug' — liquid
  • Ligurian: læte — liquid
  • Limburgish: mèlk — liquid
  • Lingala: míliki — liquid
  • Lithuanian: pienas — liquid
  • Livonian: sēmḑa — liquid
  • Lombard: latt — liquid
  • Lombard: lacc — liquid
  • Low German: Melk — liquid
  • : ᦓᧄᧉᦓᦳᧄᧉ (nam2num2) — liquid
  • : ᦓᧄᧉᦓᦳᧄᧉᦷᦣ (nam2num2ho) — liquid
  • Luba-Kasai: mabele — liquid
  • Luba-Katanga: mabele — liquid
  • Lutuv: cuehnung — liquid
  • Luxembourgish: Mëllech — liquid
  • Maasai: kule — liquid
  • Macedonian: млеко (mleko) — liquid
  • Maguindanao: gatas — liquid
  • Makasae: amirae — liquid
  • Malagasy: ronono — liquid
  • Malay: susu — liquid
  • Pattani Malay: سوسو (susu) — liquid
  • Malayalam: പാൽ (pāl) — liquid
  • Maltese: ħalib — liquid
  • Manchu: ᠰᡠᠨ (sun) — liquid
  • Manx: bainney — liquid
  • Māori: waiū — liquid
  • Māori: miraka — liquid
  • Mapudungun: lici — liquid
  • Maranao: gatas — liquid
  • Marathi: दूध (dūdh) — liquid
  • Eastern Mari: шӧр (šör) — liquid
  • Maricopa: ma — liquid
  • Megleno-Romanian: lapti — liquid
  • Minangkabau: dadiah — liquid
  • Mingrelian: ბჟა (bža) — liquid
  • Mirandese: lheite — liquid
  • Mòcheno: milch — liquid
  • Moksha: лофца (lofca) — liquid
  • Mon: ဍာ်တှ် — liquid
  • Mongolian: сүү (süü) — liquid
  • Mongolian: ᠰᠦᠨ (sün) — liquid
  • Mongolian: ᠰᠦ᠋ (sü) — liquid
  • Mwani: masiwa — liquid
  • Classical Nahuatl: chīchīhualāyōtl — liquid
  • Navajo: abeʼ — liquid
  • Neapolitan: latte — liquid
  • Nepali: दुध (dudh) — liquid
  • Nepali: दूध (dūdh) — liquid
  • Newar: दुरु (duru) — liquid
  • Ngarrindjeri: ngumperi — liquid
  • Norman: lait — liquid
  • Norn: likk — liquid
  • Norwegian Bokmål: melk — liquid
  • Norwegian Bokmål: mjølk — liquid
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: mjølk — liquid
  • Nubi: leben — liquid
  • Occitan: lach — liquid
  • Occitan: lait — liquid
  • Odia: ଖିର (khira) — liquid
  • Odia: ଦୁଧ (dudha) — liquid
  • Odia: ଖିର (Khira) — liquid
  • Ojibwe: doodooshaaboo — liquid
  • Okinawan: うしぬちー (ʼushinuchī) — liquid
  • Church Slavic: млѣко (mlěko) — liquid
  • Church Slavic: ⰿⰾⱑⰽⱁ (mlěko) — liquid
  • Old East Slavic: молоко (moloko) — liquid
  • Old English: meolc — liquid
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: leite — liquid
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: leyte — liquid
  • Old Prussian: daddan — liquid
  • Old Tupi: kamby — liquid
  • Oromo: aannan — liquid
  • Osage: paazénii — liquid
  • Ossetian: ӕхсыр (æxsyr) — liquid
  • Pali: duddha — liquid
  • Pali: khīra — liquid
  • Pannonian Rusyn: млєко (mljeko) — liquid
  • Paraujano: leechü — liquid
  • Pashto: شيدې (šide) — liquid
  • Pennsylvania German: Millich — liquid
  • Dari: شِیر (šīr) — liquid
  • Iranian Persian: شیر (šir) — liquid
  • Phoenician: 𐤇𐤋𐤁 (ḥlb) — liquid
  • Piedmontese: làit — liquid
  • Pirahã: xíbogi — liquid
  • Pitjantjatjara: ipi — liquid
  • Pitjantjatjara: milka — liquid
  • Plautdietsch: Malkj — liquid
  • Polabian: mlåkă — liquid
  • Polish: mleko — liquid
  • Portuguese: leite — liquid
  • Punjabi: ਦੁੱਧ (duddha) — liquid
  • Quechua: wilali — liquid
  • Rohingya: dut — liquid
  • Romagnol: làt — liquid
  • Romagnol: lat — liquid
  • Romani: thud — liquid
  • Romanian: lapte — liquid
  • Romansh: latg — liquid
  • Romansh: lat — liquid
  • Russian: молоко́ (molokó) — liquid
  • Rutul: наӏк (naʕk) — liquid
  • Rwanda-Rundi: amata — liquid
  • Saho: xan — liquid
  • Samburu: kule — liquid
  • Inari-Sami: mielkki — liquid
  • Kildin-Sami: ма̄ййт (mājjt) — liquid
  • Northern Sami: mielki — liquid
  • Skolt-Sami: mieʹlǩǩ — liquid
  • Samoan: susu — liquid
  • Samogitian: pėins — liquid
  • Sanskrit: दुग्ध (dugdha) — liquid
  • Sanskrit: क्षीर (kṣīra) — liquid
  • Sanskrit: पायस (pāyasa) — liquid
  • Santali: ᱛᱳᱚ (toô) — liquid
  • Sardinian: late — liquid
  • Sardinian: lati — liquid
  • Scots: milk — liquid
  • Scottish Gaelic: bainne — liquid
  • Serbo-Croatian: мле́ко — liquid
  • Serbo-Croatian: млије́ко — liquid
  • Serbo-Croatian: мли́ко — liquid
  • Serbo-Croatian: mléko — liquid
  • Serbo-Croatian: mlijéko — liquid
  • Serbo-Croatian: mlíko — liquid
  • Shan: ၼမ်ႉၼူမ်း (nâ̰m núum) — liquid
  • Sherpa: འོ་མ ('o ma) — liquid
  • Shona: mukaka — liquid
  • Shor: сӱт (süt) — liquid
  • Sicilian: latti — liquid
  • Sidamo: ado — liquid
  • Silesian: mlyko — liquid
  • Sindhi: شير (šīru) — liquid
  • Sinhalese: කිරි (kiri) — liquid
  • Slovak: mlieko — liquid
  • Slovene: mleko — liquid
  • Somali: caano — liquid
  • Lower Sorbian: mloko — liquid
  • Upper Sorbian: mloko — liquid
  • Sotho: lebese — liquid
  • Spanish: leche — liquid
  • Spanish: milk — liquid
  • Sranan Tongo: merki — liquid
  • Sumerian: 𒂵 — liquid
  • Sundanese: susu — liquid
  • Svan: ლჷჯე (ləǯe) — liquid
  • Swahili: maziwa — liquid
  • Swedish: mjölk — liquid
  • Sylheti: ꠖꠥꠗ (dudó) — liquid
  • Tagalog: gatas — liquid
  • Tahitian: ha'ari — liquid
  • Tajik: шир (šir) — liquid
  • Talysh: شت (šət) — liquid
  • Tamil: பால் (pāl) — liquid
  • Tarifit: aɣi — liquid
  • Tashelhit: akwfay — liquid
  • Tashelhit: timlliwin — liquid
  • Tatar: сөт (söt) — liquid
  • Tausug: gatas — liquid
  • Telugu: పాలు (pālu) — liquid
  • Telugu: క్షీరము (kṣīramu) — liquid
  • Ternate: susu — liquid
  • Tetum: susubeen — liquid
  • Thai: น้ํานม (náam-nom) — liquid
  • Thai: นม (nom) — liquid
  • Tibetan: འོ་མ ('o ma) — liquid
  • Tigrinya: ጸባ (ṣäba) — liquid
  • Tocharian A: malke — liquid
  • Tocharian B: malkwer — liquid
  • Tok Pisin: susu — liquid
  • Tongan: hu'akau — liquid
  • Tsakhur: няк (njak) — liquid
  • Tswana: maši — liquid
  • Tulu: ಪೇರ್ (pērŭ) — liquid
  • Turkish: süt — liquid
  • Ottoman Turkish: سوت (süt) — liquid
  • Ottoman Turkish: حلیب (halîb) — liquid
  • Ottoman Turkish: لبن (leben) — liquid
  • Ottoman Turkish: شیر (şîr) — liquid
  • Turkmen: süýt — liquid
  • Tuvan: сүт (süt) — liquid
  • Udmurt: йӧл (jöl) — liquid
  • Ugaritic: 𐎈𐎍𐎁 (ḥlb) — liquid
  • Ukrainian: молоко́ (molokó) — liquid
  • Unami: nunakàn — liquid
  • Urdu: دُودھ (dūdh) — liquid
  • Urdu: شِیر (śīr) — liquid
  • Uyghur: سۈت (süt) — liquid
  • Uzbek: sut — liquid
  • Venda: mafhi — liquid
  • Venda: mukhaha — liquid
  • Venetan: lat — liquid
  • Veps: maid — liquid
  • Vietnamese: sữa — liquid
  • Vilamovian: myłich — liquid
  • Volapük: milig — liquid
  • Võro: piim — liquid
  • Walloon: laecea — liquid
  • Waray-Waray: gatas — liquid
  • Welsh: llaeth — liquid
  • Welsh: llefrith — liquid
  • Wolaytta: maattaa — liquid
  • Wolaytta: birshshettaa — liquid
  • Wolof: meew — liquid
  • Wutunhua: naize — liquid
  • Xhosa: ubisi — liquid
  • Yagara: ammoo — liquid
  • Yakan: gatas — liquid
  • Yakut: үүт (üüt) — liquid
  • Yao (Africa): wuma — liquid
  • Yiddish: מילך (milkh) — liquid
  • Yoruba: wàrà — liquid
  • Yup'ik: muluk'uuq — liquid
  • Zazaki: şıt (diq) — liquid
  • Zhuang: cij — liquid
  • Zhuang: neq — liquid
  • Zhuang: maknah — liquid
  • Zulu: ubisi — liquid
  • ǃXóõ: gǂqhèẽ — liquid
  • Central Bikol: gatas — serving
  • Finnish: maito — serving
  • Greek: γάλα (gála) — serving
  • Russian: молоко́ (molokó) — serving
  • Slovak: mlieko — serving
  • Swahili: maziwa — serving
  • Tagalog: gatas — serving
  • Finnish: maito — liquid from a vegetable source — see also plant milk
  • Hawaiian: wai — liquid from a vegetable source — see also plant milk
  • Kannada: ಹಾಲು (hālu) — liquid from a vegetable source — see also plant milk
  • Polish: mleko — liquid from a vegetable source — see also plant milk
  • Portuguese: leite — liquid from a vegetable source — see also plant milk
  • Rarotongan: vai — liquid from a vegetable source — see also plant milk
  • Slovak: mlieko — liquid from a vegetable source — see also plant milk
  • Spanish: leche — liquid from a vegetable source — see also plant milk
  • Tamil: பால் (pāl) — liquid from a vegetable source — see also plant milk
  • Abkhaz: ахьара (axjara) — to express milk from mammal
  • Afar: han — to express milk from mammal
  • Afrikaans: melk — to express milk from mammal
  • Albanian: mjel — to express milk from mammal
  • Albanian: mîl — to express milk from mammal
  • Arabic: حَلَبَ (ḥalaba) — to express milk from mammal
  • Arabic: حلب (ḥlab) — to express milk from mammal
  • Aramaic: ܚܠܒ (ḥəlaḇ) — to express milk from mammal
  • Western Neo-Aramaic: ܐܚܠܒ (eḥlab) — to express milk from mammal
  • Archi: ацас (acas) — to express milk from mammal
  • Armenian: կթել (ktʻel) — to express milk from mammal
  • Aromanian: mulgu — to express milk from mammal
  • Aromanian: lãptuescu — to express milk from mammal
  • Assamese: খিৰোৱা (khirüa) — to express milk from mammal
  • Avar: бечӏчӏизе (beččʼize) — to express milk from mammal
  • Azerbaijani: sağmaq — to express milk from mammal
  • Basque: jetzi — to express milk from mammal
  • Belarusian: даі́ць (daícʹ) — to express milk from mammal
  • Bulgarian: доя́ (dojá) — to express milk from mammal
  • Buryat: һааха (haaxa) — to express milk from mammal
  • Catalan: munyir — to express milk from mammal
  • Cebuano: gatasan — to express milk from mammal
  • Chechen: детта (detta) — to express milk from mammal
  • Chichewa: -kama — to express milk from mammal
  • Chinese Mandarin: 擠奶 /挤奶 (jǐnǎi) — to express milk from mammal
  • Chinese Mandarin: 產乳 /产乳 (chǎnrǔ) — to express milk from mammal
  • Ngazidja Comorian: uhama — to express milk from mammal
  • Czech: dojit — to express milk from mammal
  • Czech: podojit — to express milk from mammal
  • Danish: malke — to express milk from mammal
  • Dolgan: ыак — to express milk from mammal
  • Dutch: melken — to express milk from mammal
  • Elfdalian: mjoka — to express milk from mammal
  • Erzya: потявтомс (poťavtoms) — to express milk from mammal
  • Esperanto: melki — to express milk from mammal
  • Estonian: lüpsma — to express milk from mammal
  • Even: хир- (hir-) — to express milk from mammal
  • Faroese: mjólka — to express milk from mammal
  • Finnish: lypsää — to express milk from mammal
  • French: traire — to express milk from mammal
  • Friulian: molgi — to express milk from mammal
  • Galician: muxir — to express milk from mammal
  • German: melken — to express milk from mammal
  • Greek: αρμέγω (armégo) — to express milk from mammal
  • Ancient Greek: ἀμέλγω (amélgō) — to express milk from mammal
  • Hebrew: חָלַב (khaláv) — to express milk from mammal
  • Hungarian: fej — to express milk from mammal
  • Icelandic: mjólka — to express milk from mammal
  • Icelandic: mjalta — to express milk from mammal
  • Ido: melkar — to express milk from mammal
  • Indonesian: susu — to express milk from mammal
  • Irish: crúigh — to express milk from mammal
  • Irish: bligh — to express milk from mammal
  • Italian: mungere — to express milk from mammal
  • Japanese: 乳を搾る (chichi o shiboru) — to express milk from mammal
  • Kazakh: сауу (sauu) — to express milk from mammal
  • Korean: 젖을 짜다 (jeoj-eul jjada) — to express milk from mammal
  • Central Kurdish: دۆشین (doşîn) — to express milk from mammal
  • Northern Kurdish: doşîn — to express milk from mammal
  • Northern Kurdish: dotin — to express milk from mammal
  • Kyrgyz: саа (saa) — to express milk from mammal
  • Lao: ໃສ່ນົມ (sai nom) — to express milk from mammal
  • Latin: mulgeō — to express milk from mammal
  • Latvian: slaukt — to express milk from mammal
  • Lezgi: ацун (acun) — to express milk from mammal
  • Lombard: móng — to express milk from mammal
  • Lombard: mung — to express milk from mammal
  • Low German: melken — to express milk from mammal
  • Luxembourgish: sträichen — to express milk from mammal
  • Macedonian: молзе (molze) — to express milk from mammal
  • Malay: perah — to express milk from mammal
  • Malay: susu — to express milk from mammal
  • Maltese: ħaleb — to express milk from mammal
  • Māori: kutētē — to express milk from mammal
  • Māori: whakatētē — to express milk from mammal
  • Mongolian: саах (saax) — to express milk from mammal
  • Nanai: сири- (siri-) — to express milk from mammal
  • Nepali: दुहुनु (duhunu) — to express milk from mammal
  • Norman: traithe — to express milk from mammal
  • Northern Altai: сагарга (sagarga) — to express milk from mammal
  • Norwegian Bokmål: melke — to express milk from mammal
  • Norwegian Bokmål: mjølke — to express milk from mammal
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: mjølke — to express milk from mammal
  • Occitan: mólzer — to express milk from mammal
  • Church Slavic: доити (doiti) — to express milk from mammal
  • Old East Slavic: доити (doiti) — to express milk from mammal
  • Old English: melcan — to express milk from mammal
  • Old English: meolcian — to express milk from mammal
  • Oromo: elmuu — to express milk from mammal
  • Ossetian: дуцын (ducyn) — to express milk from mammal
  • Pashto: لوشل — to express milk from mammal
  • Pashto: لوغل — to express milk from mammal
  • Persian: دوشیدن (dušidan) — to express milk from mammal
  • Persian: دوختن (duxtan) — to express milk from mammal
  • Polish: doić — to express milk from mammal
  • Polish: wydoić — to express milk from mammal
  • Portuguese: ordenhar — to express milk from mammal
  • Portuguese: mungir — to express milk from mammal
  • Quechua: ch'away — to express milk from mammal
  • Romanian: mulge — to express milk from mammal
  • Romansh: mulscher — to express milk from mammal
  • Romansh: munscher — to express milk from mammal
  • Romansh: mundscher — to express milk from mammal
  • Russian: дои́ть (doítʹ) — to express milk from mammal
  • Russian: подои́ть (podoítʹ) — to express milk from mammal
  • Saho: xan — to express milk from mammal
  • Sardinian: múgghere — to express milk from mammal
  • Sardinian: múlghere — to express milk from mammal
  • Sardinian: mugi — to express milk from mammal
  • Sardinian: múrgere — to express milk from mammal
  • Sardinian: mulli — to express milk from mammal
  • Sardinian: múlliri — to express milk from mammal
  • Scottish Gaelic: bleoghainn — to express milk from mammal
  • Serbo-Croatian: мусти — to express milk from mammal
  • Serbo-Croatian: помусти — to express milk from mammal
  • Serbo-Croatian: musti — to express milk from mammal
  • Serbo-Croatian: pomusti — to express milk from mammal
  • Shor: сағарға (sağarğa) — to express milk from mammal
  • Slovak: dojiť — to express milk from mammal
  • Slovak: podojiť — to express milk from mammal
  • Slovene: molsti — to express milk from mammal
  • Lower Sorbian: dojś — to express milk from mammal
  • Sotho: hama — to express milk from mammal
  • Southern Altai: саар (saar) — to express milk from mammal
  • Southern Altai: саап алар (saap alar) — to express milk from mammal
  • Spanish: ordeñar — to express milk from mammal
  • Spanish: muir — to express milk from mammal
  • Swahili: kukama — to express milk from mammal
  • Swedish: mjölka — to express milk from mammal
  • Tagalog: gatasan — to express milk from mammal
  • Tatar: саварга (sawarğa) — to express milk from mammal
  • Tatar: савып алырга (sawıp alırğa) — to express milk from mammal
  • Tamil: கற (kaṟa) — to express milk from mammal
  • Telugu: పితుకు (pituku) — to express milk from mammal
  • Thai: รีดนม (rîit-nom) — to express milk from mammal
  • Tocharian A: mālk- — to express milk from mammal
  • Tocharian A: mālkā — to express milk from mammal
  • Tocharian B: mālkant — to express milk from mammal
  • Turkish: sağmak — to express milk from mammal
  • Ottoman Turkish: صاغمق (sağmak) — to express milk from mammal
  • Tuvan: саар (saar) — to express milk from mammal
  • Ukrainian: дої́ти (dojíty) — to express milk from mammal
  • Ukrainian: подої́ти (podojíty) — to express milk from mammal
  • Uzbek: sogʻmoq — to express milk from mammal
  • Venetan: molder — to express milk from mammal
  • Venetan: mólzer — to express milk from mammal
  • Venetan: mónzer — to express milk from mammal
  • Venetan: mónxer — to express milk from mammal
  • Venetan: mólzar — to express milk from mammal
  • Venetan: mónzar — to express milk from mammal
  • Vietnamese: vắt sữa — to express milk from mammal
  • Walloon: mode — to express milk from mammal
  • Walloon: traire — to express milk from mammal
  • Welsh: godro — to express milk from mammal
  • Yakut: ыа (ïa) — to express milk from mammal
  • Zazaki: dıtene (diq) — to express milk from mammal
  • Zazaki: doşayîş — to express milk from mammal
  • Zazaki: dotiş — to express milk from mammal
  • Belarusian: даі́ць (daícʹ) — to draw from the breasts or udder
  • Bulgarian: доя́ (dojá) — to draw from the breasts or udder
  • Catalan: munyir — to draw from the breasts or udder
  • Cebuano: gatasan — to draw from the breasts or udder
  • Ngazidja Comorian: uhama — to draw from the breasts or udder
  • Finnish: lypsää — to draw from the breasts or udder
  • Pashto: لوشل — to draw from the breasts or udder
  • Pashto: لوغل — to draw from the breasts or udder
  • Russian: дои́ть (doítʹ) — to draw from the breasts or udder
  • Russian: подои́ть (podoítʹ) — to draw from the breasts or udder
  • Slovak: dojiť — to draw from the breasts or udder
  • Swahili: kukama — to draw from the breasts or udder
  • Tamil: கற (kaṟa) — to draw from the breasts or udder
  • Ottoman Turkish: صاغمق (sağmak) — to draw from the breasts or udder
  • Ukrainian: дої́ти (dojíty) — to draw from the breasts or udder
  • Finnish: lypsää — to express any liquid
  • Finnish: valuttaa — to express any liquid
  • German: melken — to express any liquid
  • Greek: αρμέγω (armégo) — to express any liquid
  • Central Kurdish: دۆشین (doşîn) — to express any liquid
  • Northern Kurdish: doşîn — to express any liquid
  • Northern Kurdish: dotin — to express any liquid
  • Latvian: slaukt — to express any liquid
  • Latvian: izspiest (sulu) — to express any liquid
  • Malay: perah — to express any liquid
  • Malay: peras — to express any liquid
  • Māori: tatau — to express any liquid
  • Persian: دوشیدن (dušidan) — to express any liquid
  • Quechua: ch'away — to express any liquid
  • Rarotongan: tatau — to express any liquid
  • Samoan: tatau — to express any liquid
  • Samoan: tāu — to express any liquid
  • Scottish Gaelic: bleoghainn — to express any liquid
  • Swahili: maziwa — to express any liquid
  • Swedish: mjölka — to express any liquid
  • Tagalog: pigas — to express any liquid
  • Tamil: கற (kaṟa) — to express any liquid
  • Tongan: tatau — to express any liquid
  • Ottoman Turkish: صاغمق (sağmak) — to express any liquid
  • Bulgarian: експлоатирам (eksploatiram) — to take advantage of situation
  • Dutch: uitmelken — to take advantage of situation
  • Finnish: pyöritellä — to take advantage of situation
  • German: ausschöpfen — to take advantage of situation
  • German: ausreizen — to take advantage of situation
  • Greek: απομυζώ (apomyzó) — to take advantage of situation
  • Greek: εκμεταλλεύομαι (ekmetallévomai) — to take advantage of situation
  • Italian: sfruttare — to take advantage of situation
  • Latvian: slaukt — to take advantage of situation
  • Russian: дои́ть (doítʹ) — to take advantage of situation
  • Russian: выжима́ть (vyžimátʹ) — to take advantage of situation
  • Slovak: žmýkať — to take advantage of situation
  • Slovak: vyžmýkať — to take advantage of situation
  • Spanish: ordeñar — to take advantage of situation
  • Swahili: maziwa — to take advantage of situation
  • Swedish: mjölka — to take advantage of situation
  • Ottoman Turkish: صاغمق (sağmak) — to take advantage of situation
  • Finnish: kiehua — of a battery, to give off small gas bubbles
  • Italian: masturbare — to masturbate a male to ejaculation
  • Vietnamese: vắt sữa — to masturbate a male to ejaculation