milk

(Anglais)

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.

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/mɪlk/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Hérité de moyen anglais: milk

Hérité de ancien anglais: meolc

Appartenant à frison occidental: molke

Appartenant à néerlandais: melk

Appartenant à allemand: Milch

Appartenant à yiddish: מילך

Appartenant à danois: mælk

Appartenant à norvégien bokmål: mjølk

Appartenant à norvégien nynorsk: mjølk

Appartenant à suédois: mjölk

Appartenant à islandais: mjólk

Appartenant à féroïen: mjólk

Appartenant à albanais: mjel

Appartenant à polonais: mleko

Appartenant à russe: молоко́

Appartenant à gallois: blith

Appartenant à Tokharian A: malke

Appartenant à lituanien: malkas

Appartenant à letton: malks

Appartenant à grec ancien: μέλκιον

Hérité de moyen anglais: milken

Hérité de ancien anglais: melcan

Appartenant à néerlandais: -

Appartenant à allemand: melken

Appartenant à danois: malke

Appartenant à norvégien: mjølke

Appartenant à latin: mulgeō

Appartenant à grec ancien: ἀμέλγω

Appartenant à lituanien: mélžti

Appartenant à 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.

Concepts

lait

🥛

traire

🥛

latex

lait de vache

lacté

🥛

de lait

lait aigre

lait caillé

lait cru

lait entier

lait frais

lait maternel

seins

lait bouilli

trayons

exploiter

laèt

laitier

poitrine

serrer

chocolat blanc

Synonymes

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

Traductions

leche

🥛

Milch

🥛

latte

🥛

melk

🥛

leite

🥛

γάλα

ordeñar

🥛

mleko

lac

🥛

melken

🥛

süt

🥛

llet

🥛

şîr

🥛

mungere

🥛

αρμέγω

Phrases

Should be drinking milk .

It is no use crying over spilt milk .

Il ne sert à rien de pleurer sur du lait renversé.