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yogurt

noun · 3 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.

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Pronunciation

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  • Received-Pronunciation: yŏgʹət
  • Received-Pronunciation: /ˈjɒɡ.ət/
  • UK: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • Canada, General-American: yōʹgərt
  • Canada, General-American: /ˈjoʊ.ɡɚt/
  • California: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • Australian: yōʹgət
  • Australian: /ˈjəʉ.ɡət/
  • New-Zealand: yōʹgət
  • New-Zealand: /ˈjɐʉ.ɡət/
  • rhymes with (Received Pronunciation) -ɒɡət
  • CMU ARPABET: Y OW1 G ER0 T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

noun

Meaning 1

A milk-based product stiffened by a bacterium-aided curdling process, and sometimes mixed with fruit or other flavoring.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: milk food

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

Any similar product based on other substances (e.g. soy yogurt).

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, especially, in-compounds, uncountable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

3

noun

Meaning 3

a custard-like food made from curdled milk

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: yoghurt, yoghourt

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: food, solid food, dairy product

Narrower terms: frozen yogurt, blueberry yogurt

History

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Turkic *yugur- Proto-Turkic *-t Proto-Turkic *yogrut Ottoman Turkish یوغورت (yoğurt)bor. English yogurt Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish یوغورت (yoğurt). Ultimately from Proto-Turkic *yogrut.

Across languages

Translations

187 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Abkhaz: ахарҵәы (axarcwʼə) — a milk-based product thickened by a bacterium-aided curdling process
  • Afrikaans: jogurt — a milk-based product thickened by a bacterium-aided curdling process
  • Albanian: kos — a milk-based product thickened by a bacterium-aided curdling process
  • Albanian: jogurt — a milk-based product thickened by a bacterium-aided curdling process
  • Amharic: እርጎ (ʾərgo) — a milk-based product thickened by a bacterium-aided curdling process
  • Arabic: لَبَن (laban) — a milk-based product thickened by a bacterium-aided curdling process
  • Arabic: لَبَن زَبَادِيّ (laban zabādiyy) — a milk-based product thickened by a bacterium-aided curdling process
  • Arabic: لَبَن رَائِب (laban rāʔib) — a milk-based product thickened by a bacterium-aided curdling process
  • Arabic: رَوْب (rawb) — a milk-based product thickened by a bacterium-aided curdling process
  • Arabic: رَوْبَة (rawba) — a milk-based product thickened by a bacterium-aided curdling process
  • Arabic: مَاسْت (māst) — a milk-based product thickened by a bacterium-aided curdling process
  • Arabic: زبادي (zabadi) — a milk-based product thickened by a bacterium-aided curdling process
  • Arabic: روب (rōb) — a milk-based product thickened by a bacterium-aided curdling process
  • Arabic: زبادي (zabādi) — a milk-based product thickened by a bacterium-aided curdling process
  • Arabic: دانون (danon) — a milk-based product thickened by a bacterium-aided curdling process
  • Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܡܲܣܬܵܐ (mastā) — a milk-based product thickened by a bacterium-aided curdling process
  • Armenian: յոգուրտ (yogurt) — a milk-based product thickened by a bacterium-aided curdling process
  • Aromanian: mãrcat — a milk-based product thickened by a bacterium-aided curdling process
  • Assamese: দৈ (doi) — a milk-based product thickened by a bacterium-aided curdling process
  • Asturian: yogur — a milk-based product thickened by a bacterium-aided curdling process
  • Azerbaijani: qatıq — a milk-based product thickened by a bacterium-aided curdling process
  • Azerbaijani: yoğurt (in Tabriz) — a milk-based product thickened by a bacterium-aided curdling process
  • Azerbaijani: yoqurt — a milk-based product thickened by a bacterium-aided curdling process
  • Basque: jogurt — a milk-based product thickened by a bacterium-aided curdling process
  • Belarusian: ёгурт (jóhurt) — a milk-based product thickened by a bacterium-aided curdling process
  • Bengali: দই (doi) — a milk-based product thickened by a bacterium-aided curdling process
  • Breton: yaourt — a milk-based product thickened by a bacterium-aided curdling process
  • Bulgarian: ки́село мля́ко (kíselo mljáko) — a milk-based product thickened by a bacterium-aided curdling process
  • Bulgarian: йо́гурт (jógurt) — a milk-based product thickened by a bacterium-aided curdling process
  • Burmese: ဒိန်ချဉ် (dinhkyany) — a milk-based product thickened by a bacterium-aided curdling process
  • Buryat: тараг (tarag) — a milk-based product thickened by a bacterium-aided curdling process
  • Catalan: iogurt — a milk-based product thickened by a bacterium-aided curdling process
  • Cebuano: yogur — a milk-based product thickened by a bacterium-aided curdling process
  • Cherokee: ᏧᏂᎿᏦᏯᏍᏔᏅ (tsunihnatsoyastanv) — a milk-based product thickened by a bacterium-aided curdling process
  • Chinese Cantonese: 乳酪 (jyu5 lok3) — a milk-based product thickened by a bacterium-aided curdling process
  • Hakka Chinese: 優酪乳 /优酪乳 (yulólù) — a milk-based product thickened by a bacterium-aided curdling process
  • Chinese: 酸奶 (sng-lin / sng-ni / suin-leng) — a milk-based product thickened by a bacterium-aided curdling process
  • Chinese Mandarin: 酸奶 (suānnǎi) — a milk-based product thickened by a bacterium-aided curdling process
  • Chinese Mandarin: 酸牛奶 (suānniúnǎi) — a milk-based product thickened by a bacterium-aided curdling process
  • Chinese Mandarin: 酸凝酪 (suānnínglào, suānníngluò) — a milk-based product thickened by a bacterium-aided curdling process
  • Chinese Mandarin: 優酪乳 /优酪乳 (yōulàorǔ, yōuluòrǔ) — a milk-based product thickened by a bacterium-aided curdling process
  • Chinese Mandarin: 發酵乳 /发酵乳 (fājiàorǔ) — a milk-based product thickened by a bacterium-aided curdling process
  • Chinese Mandarin: 乳酪 (rǔlào) — a milk-based product thickened by a bacterium-aided curdling process
  • Chinese Mandarin: 发酵乳 (fājiàorǔ, fāxiàorǔ) — a milk-based product thickened by a bacterium-aided curdling process
  • Chinese Mandarin: 優格 /优格 (yōugé) — a milk-based product thickened by a bacterium-aided curdling process
  • Wu Chinese: 酸奶 (1soe-na) — a milk-based product thickened by a bacterium-aided curdling process
  • Cornish: yogort — a milk-based product thickened by a bacterium-aided curdling process
  • Crimean Tatar: yoğurt — a milk-based product thickened by a bacterium-aided curdling process
  • Crimean Tatar: qatıq — a milk-based product thickened by a bacterium-aided curdling process
  • Czech: jogurt — a milk-based product thickened by a bacterium-aided curdling process
  • Danish: jogurt — a milk-based product thickened by a bacterium-aided curdling process
  • Danish: yoghurt — a milk-based product thickened by a bacterium-aided curdling process
  • Dutch: yoghurt — a milk-based product thickened by a bacterium-aided curdling process
  • Esperanto: jogurto — a milk-based product thickened by a bacterium-aided curdling process
  • Esperanto: jahurto — a milk-based product thickened by a bacterium-aided curdling process
  • Estonian: jogurt — a milk-based product thickened by a bacterium-aided curdling process
  • Faroese: jogurt — a milk-based product thickened by a bacterium-aided curdling process
  • Finnish: jogurtti — a milk-based product thickened by a bacterium-aided curdling process
  • French: yaourt — a milk-based product thickened by a bacterium-aided curdling process
  • French: yogourt — a milk-based product thickened by a bacterium-aided curdling process
  • Gagauz: yuurt — a milk-based product thickened by a bacterium-aided curdling process
  • Galician: iogur — a milk-based product thickened by a bacterium-aided curdling process
  • Georgian: იოგურტი (iogurṭi) — a milk-based product thickened by a bacterium-aided curdling process
  • Georgian: მაწონი (mac̣oni) — a milk-based product thickened by a bacterium-aided curdling process
  • German: Joghurt — a milk-based product thickened by a bacterium-aided curdling process
  • Greek: γιαούρτι (giaoúrti) — a milk-based product thickened by a bacterium-aided curdling process
  • Gujarati: દહીં (dahī̃) — a milk-based product thickened by a bacterium-aided curdling process
  • Hebrew: יוֹגוּרְט (yogúrt) — a milk-based product thickened by a bacterium-aided curdling process
  • Hindi: दही (dahī) — a milk-based product thickened by a bacterium-aided curdling process
  • Hungarian: joghurt — a milk-based product thickened by a bacterium-aided curdling process
  • Icelandic: jógúrt — a milk-based product thickened by a bacterium-aided curdling process
  • Ido: yogurto — a milk-based product thickened by a bacterium-aided curdling process
  • Indonesian: yoghurt — a milk-based product thickened by a bacterium-aided curdling process
  • Indonesian: yogurt — a milk-based product thickened by a bacterium-aided curdling process
  • Interlingua: yogurt — a milk-based product thickened by a bacterium-aided curdling process
  • Irish: iógart — a milk-based product thickened by a bacterium-aided curdling process
  • Italian: yogurt — a milk-based product thickened by a bacterium-aided curdling process
  • Italian: iogurt — a milk-based product thickened by a bacterium-aided curdling process
  • Italian: mezzorado — a milk-based product thickened by a bacterium-aided curdling process
  • Japanese: ヨーグルト (yōguruto) — a milk-based product thickened by a bacterium-aided curdling process
  • Kannada: ಮೊಸರು (mosaru) — a milk-based product thickened by a bacterium-aided curdling process
  • Kazakh: йогурт (iogurt) — a milk-based product thickened by a bacterium-aided curdling process
  • Kazakh: қатық (qatyq) — a milk-based product thickened by a bacterium-aided curdling process
  • Khmer: ទឹកដោះគោជូរ (tɨk dɑh koo cuu) — a milk-based product thickened by a bacterium-aided curdling process
  • Korean: 요구르트 (yogureuteu) — a milk-based product thickened by a bacterium-aided curdling process
  • Kumyk: ювурт (yuwurt) — a milk-based product thickened by a bacterium-aided curdling process
  • Central Kurdish: ماست (mast) — a milk-based product thickened by a bacterium-aided curdling process
  • Northern Kurdish: mast — a milk-based product thickened by a bacterium-aided curdling process
  • Kyrgyz: йогурт (yogurt) — a milk-based product thickened by a bacterium-aided curdling process
  • Kyrgyz: катык (katık) — a milk-based product thickened by a bacterium-aided curdling process
  • Kyrgyz: жуурат (juurat) — a milk-based product thickened by a bacterium-aided curdling process
  • Ladino: yaúrt — a milk-based product thickened by a bacterium-aided curdling process
  • Lao: ນົມສົ້ມ (nom som) — a milk-based product thickened by a bacterium-aided curdling process
  • Latin: melca — a milk-based product thickened by a bacterium-aided curdling process
  • Latin: iogurtum — a milk-based product thickened by a bacterium-aided curdling process
  • Latvian: jogurts — a milk-based product thickened by a bacterium-aided curdling process
  • Lithuanian: jogurtas — a milk-based product thickened by a bacterium-aided curdling process
  • Luxembourgish: Jughurt — a milk-based product thickened by a bacterium-aided curdling process
  • Macedonian: јо́гурт (jógurt) — a milk-based product thickened by a bacterium-aided curdling process
  • Malay: yogurt — a milk-based product thickened by a bacterium-aided curdling process
  • Malayalam: തൈര് (tairŭ) — a milk-based product thickened by a bacterium-aided curdling process
  • Maltese: jowgart — a milk-based product thickened by a bacterium-aided curdling process
  • Manx: binjean — a milk-based product thickened by a bacterium-aided curdling process
  • Māori: waiū tepe — a milk-based product thickened by a bacterium-aided curdling process
  • Māori: waipupuru — a milk-based product thickened by a bacterium-aided curdling process
  • Māori: waiū pupuru — a milk-based product thickened by a bacterium-aided curdling process
  • Māori: mirakapē — a milk-based product thickened by a bacterium-aided curdling process
  • Marathi: दही (dahī) — a milk-based product thickened by a bacterium-aided curdling process
  • Mongolian: тараг (tarag) — a milk-based product thickened by a bacterium-aided curdling process
  • Nepali: दहि (dahi) — a milk-based product thickened by a bacterium-aided curdling process
  • Nogai: ювырт (yuvırt) — a milk-based product thickened by a bacterium-aided curdling process
  • Norwegian Bokmål: jogurt — a milk-based product thickened by a bacterium-aided curdling process
  • Norwegian Bokmål: yoghurt — a milk-based product thickened by a bacterium-aided curdling process
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: yoghurt — a milk-based product thickened by a bacterium-aided curdling process
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: jogurt — a milk-based product thickened by a bacterium-aided curdling process
  • Occitan: iogort — a milk-based product thickened by a bacterium-aided curdling process
  • Occitan: iaort — a milk-based product thickened by a bacterium-aided curdling process
  • Old Uyghur: 𐽶𐽳𐽲𐽾𐽳𐾀 — a milk-based product thickened by a bacterium-aided curdling process
  • Oromo: itittuu — a milk-based product thickened by a bacterium-aided curdling process
  • Pannonian Rusyn: йоґурт (jogurt) — a milk-based product thickened by a bacterium-aided curdling process
  • Pashto: ماسته (māstə) — a milk-based product thickened by a bacterium-aided curdling process
  • Pashto: مستى (masté) — a milk-based product thickened by a bacterium-aided curdling process
  • Iranian Persian: ماسْت (mâst) — a milk-based product thickened by a bacterium-aided curdling process
  • Iranian Persian: چُغْرات (čoġrât) — a milk-based product thickened by a bacterium-aided curdling process
  • Iranian Persian: جُغْرات (joġrât) — a milk-based product thickened by a bacterium-aided curdling process
  • Iranian Persian: یوقورْت (yuġurt) — a milk-based product thickened by a bacterium-aided curdling process
  • Polish: jogurt — a milk-based product thickened by a bacterium-aided curdling process
  • Portuguese: iogurte — a milk-based product thickened by a bacterium-aided curdling process
  • Punjabi: ਦਹੀਂ (dahī̃) — a milk-based product thickened by a bacterium-aided curdling process
  • Punjabi: دَہِیں (dahīṉ) — a milk-based product thickened by a bacterium-aided curdling process
  • Punjabi: یوگُرْٹ (yogurṭ) — a milk-based product thickened by a bacterium-aided curdling process
  • Quechua: yugur — a milk-based product thickened by a bacterium-aided curdling process
  • Romanian: iaurt — a milk-based product thickened by a bacterium-aided curdling process
  • Romansh: jogurt — a milk-based product thickened by a bacterium-aided curdling process
  • Russian: йо́гурт (jógurt) — a milk-based product thickened by a bacterium-aided curdling process
  • Russian: простоква́ша (prostokváša) — a milk-based product thickened by a bacterium-aided curdling process
  • Rwanda-Rundi: yawurute — a milk-based product thickened by a bacterium-aided curdling process
  • Sardinian: gioddu — a milk-based product thickened by a bacterium-aided curdling process
  • Scottish Gaelic: iogart — a milk-based product thickened by a bacterium-aided curdling process
  • Serbo-Croatian: јо̀гурт — a milk-based product thickened by a bacterium-aided curdling process
  • Serbo-Croatian: jògurt — a milk-based product thickened by a bacterium-aided curdling process
  • Sicilian: jogurt — a milk-based product thickened by a bacterium-aided curdling process
  • Sindhi: ڏهي (ḏhe) — a milk-based product thickened by a bacterium-aided curdling process
  • Sinhalese: යෝගට් (yōgaṭ) — a milk-based product thickened by a bacterium-aided curdling process
  • Slovak: jogurt — a milk-based product thickened by a bacterium-aided curdling process
  • Slovene: jogurt — a milk-based product thickened by a bacterium-aided curdling process
  • Lower Sorbian: jogurt — a milk-based product thickened by a bacterium-aided curdling process
  • Spanish: yogur — a milk-based product thickened by a bacterium-aided curdling process
  • Spanish: yogurt — a milk-based product thickened by a bacterium-aided curdling process
  • Spanish: yagurt — a milk-based product thickened by a bacterium-aided curdling process
  • Swahili: maziwa ya mgando — a milk-based product thickened by a bacterium-aided curdling process
  • Swedish: yoghurt — a milk-based product thickened by a bacterium-aided curdling process
  • Sylheti: ꠖꠂ (doi) — a milk-based product thickened by a bacterium-aided curdling process
  • Tagalog: yogart — a milk-based product thickened by a bacterium-aided curdling process
  • Tajik: ҷурғот (jurġot) — a milk-based product thickened by a bacterium-aided curdling process
  • Tajik: мост (most) — a milk-based product thickened by a bacterium-aided curdling process
  • Tajik: йогурт (yogurt) — a milk-based product thickened by a bacterium-aided curdling process
  • Tajik: қатиқ (qatiq) — a milk-based product thickened by a bacterium-aided curdling process
  • Tamil: தயிர் (tayir) — a milk-based product thickened by a bacterium-aided curdling process
  • Tatar: йогырт (yoğırt) — a milk-based product thickened by a bacterium-aided curdling process
  • Tatar: катык (qatıq) — a milk-based product thickened by a bacterium-aided curdling process
  • Telugu: పెరుగు (perugu) — a milk-based product thickened by a bacterium-aided curdling process
  • Thai: โยเกิร์ต (yoo-gə̀ət) — a milk-based product thickened by a bacterium-aided curdling process
  • Thai: นมเปรี้ยว (nom-bprîao) — a milk-based product thickened by a bacterium-aided curdling process
  • Tibetan: ཞོ (zho) — a milk-based product thickened by a bacterium-aided curdling process
  • Tigrinya: ርግኦ (rəgʾo) — a milk-based product thickened by a bacterium-aided curdling process
  • Turkish: yoğurt — a milk-based product thickened by a bacterium-aided curdling process
  • Ottoman Turkish: یوغورت (yoğurt) — a milk-based product thickened by a bacterium-aided curdling process
  • Ottoman Turkish: لبن (leben) — a milk-based product thickened by a bacterium-aided curdling process
  • Ottoman Turkish: ماست (mast) — a milk-based product thickened by a bacterium-aided curdling process
  • Turkmen: gatyk — a milk-based product thickened by a bacterium-aided curdling process
  • Turkmen: süzme — a milk-based product thickened by a bacterium-aided curdling process
  • Turkmen: ýogurt — a milk-based product thickened by a bacterium-aided curdling process
  • Ukrainian: йо́гурт (jóhurt) — a milk-based product thickened by a bacterium-aided curdling process
  • Ukrainian: йо́ґурт (jógurt) — a milk-based product thickened by a bacterium-aided curdling process
  • Ukrainian: юґу́рт (jugúrt) — a milk-based product thickened by a bacterium-aided curdling process
  • Urdu: دَہی (dahī) — a milk-based product thickened by a bacterium-aided curdling process
  • Urdu: ماسْت (māst) — a milk-based product thickened by a bacterium-aided curdling process
  • Uyghur: قايماق (qaymaq) — a milk-based product thickened by a bacterium-aided curdling process
  • Uzbek: qatiq — a milk-based product thickened by a bacterium-aided curdling process
  • Uzbek: yogurt — a milk-based product thickened by a bacterium-aided curdling process
  • Vietnamese: sữa chua — a milk-based product thickened by a bacterium-aided curdling process
  • Vietnamese: da ua — a milk-based product thickened by a bacterium-aided curdling process
  • Welsh: iogwrt — a milk-based product thickened by a bacterium-aided curdling process
  • Yiddish: יאָגורט (yogurt) — a milk-based product thickened by a bacterium-aided curdling process
  • Zazaki: mast (diq) — a milk-based product thickened by a bacterium-aided curdling process
  • Zazaki: most (diq) — a milk-based product thickened by a bacterium-aided curdling process
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