Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

kaymak

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: kay-mak
IPA

19

Scrabble Score

6

Letters

2

Syllables

4

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

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.

Uncountable

Etymology

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

Origin

Source language: Turkish

Word Breakdown

Root: kaymak, قایماق

Usage

Uncountable

Inflected Forms

kaimak (alternative) kajmak (alternative)

Questions

What does kaymak mean?: 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.
Where does kaymak come from?: It is traced to Turkish.

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