milk

Betekenis (Engels)

Noun

1. (uncountable) 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.
2. (broadly, uncountable) A white (or whitish) liquid obtained from a vegetable source such as almonds, coconuts, oats, rice, or soy beans.
3. (countable, informal) An individual serving of milk.
4. (countable, invariable) An individual portion of milk, such as found in a creamer, for tea and coffee.
5. (countable, uncountable) The ripe, undischarged spat of an oyster.
6. (slang, uncountable, vulgar) Semen.

Verb

1. (transitive) To express milk from (a mammal, especially a cow).
2. (intransitive, transitive) To draw (milk) from the breasts or udder.
3. (intransitive, rare, transitive) To secrete (milk) from the breasts or udder.
4. (transitive) To express a liquid from a creature.
5. (figuratively, transitive) To make excessive use of (a particular point in speech or writing, a source of funds, etc.); to exploit; to take advantage of (something).
6. To give off small gas bubbles during the final part of the charging operation.
7. (transitive, vulgar) To masturbate a male to ejaculation, especially for the amusement or satisfaction of the masturbator rather than the person masturbated.

Sinonieme

breast

latex

squeeze

mother’s milk

draw milk

dairy

cow’s milk

curd

breast milk

clarified butter

juice

draw milk from

drain

butter

🧈

namely

suckle

exploit

vagina

squeeze out

female breast

rice pudding

milch

sap

udder

creme

fleece

flame

cream

flip

flour

fetch

face cream

lactic

lacteal

extort

come

buttermilk

etc

intercept

dry up

horseshoe

honey

🍯

grind

jelly

jism

jizz

gravy

churn

bucket

🪣

goo

Vertalings

lait

🥛

leche

🥛

Milch

🥛

latte

🥛

traire

🥛

melk

🥛

leite

🥛

γάλα

ordeñar

🥛

lac

🥛

melken

🥛

süt

🥛

llet

🥛

mungere

🥛

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/mɪlk/

Etimologie (Engels)

Geërf van Middle English: milk

Geërf van Old English: meolc

Verwante met Fries: molke

Verwante met Nederlands: melk

Verwante met Duits: Milch

Verwante met Jiddisj: מילך

Verwante met Deens: mælk

Verwante met Boeknoors: mjølk

Verwante met Nuwe Noors: mjølk

Verwante met Sweeds: mjölk

Verwante met Yslands: mjólk

Verwante met Faroëes: mjólk

Verwante met Albanees: mjel

Verwante met Pools: mleko

Verwante met Russies: молоко́

Verwante met Wallies: blith

Verwante met Tokharian A: malke

Verwante met Litaus: malkas

Verwante met Letties: malks

Verwante met Antieke Grieks: μέλκιον

Geërf van Middle English: milken

Geërf van Old English: melcan

Verwante met Nederlands: -

Verwante met Duits: melken

Verwante met Deens: malke

Verwante met Noors: mjølke

Verwante met Latyn: mulgeō

Verwante met Antieke Grieks: ἀμέλγω

Verwante met Litaus: mélžti

Verwante met Tokharian A: mālk-

In summary

From Middle English milk, mylk, melk, mulc, from Old English meolc, meoluc (“milk”), from Proto-West Germanic *meluk, from Proto-Germanic *meluks, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂melǵ-.
Cognates
Cognate with West Frisian molke, Dutch melk, Dutch Low Saxon melk, German Milch, German Low German Melk, Yiddish מילך (milkh), Danish mælk, Norwegian Bokmål mjølk, melk, Norwegian Nynorsk mjølk, Swedish mjölk, Icelandic mjólk, Faroese mjólk, Greek αμέλγω (amélgo, “to milk”), Albanian mjel (“to milk”), Polish mleko, Russian молоко́ (molokó), Welsh blith, Tocharian A malke, Lithuanian malkas and Latvian malks.

Sinne

Should be drinking milk .

It is no use crying over spilt milk .