yaourt
English
Noun
yaourt (uncountable)
- Obsolete form of yogurt.
- 1885, Cyprus guide and directory, page 82:
- Yaourt is simply the milk turned sour and somewhat resembles curds only that it is thicker in consistency. The milk is originally turned by introducing a few drops of the milk of the fig into a bowl of sheep or goat's milk gently heated and then allowed to cool. A spoonful of the yaourt is kept as a kind of leaven and is sufficient to convert a large bowl of milk into yaourt. Eaten with sugar yaourt is very palatable and refreshing in warm weather and is said to be a preventive of fever.
References
- Oxford English Dictionary. 1989.
- "yaourt." Dictionary.com. Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1). Random House, Inc. 2008.
French
Pronunciation
- (aspirated h) IPA(key): /ja.uʁt/, /ja.uʁ/
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Noun
yaourt m (plural yaourts)
Usage notes
- This word is treated as if it has an aspirated h despite not being written with an h.
- The variants yoghourt and yogourt are more common in Belgium, Switzerland and Canada. Especially in Canada the form yaourt is rarely used.
Further reading
- “yaourt”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
- yaourt on the French Wikipedia.Wikipedia fr
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