Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

yaourt

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: yaourt
IPA

9

Scrabble Score

6

Letters

1

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Obsolete form of yogurt.

Obsolete; Uncountable

noun

Obsolete form of yurt.

Obsolete

Example Sentences

"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."
"[…] yaourts with their felt covering are very draughty, and it is hard to keep warm even wrapped in fur […]"

Etymology

From French yaourt, from Turkish yoğurt. Doublet of yogurt.

Origin

Source language: French

Word Breakdown

Root: yaourt, yoğurt

Usage

Inflected Forms

yaourts (plural)

Questions

What does yaourt mean?: Obsolete form of yogurt.
Where does yaourt come from?: It is traced to French.

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