milk

(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.

Uitgesproken als (IPA)

/mɪlk/

Etymologie (Engels)

Overgenomen van Middelengels: milk

Overgenomen van Oudengels: meolc

Verwant aan Fries: molke

Verwant aan Nederlands: melk

Verwant aan Duits: Milch

Verwant aan Jiddisch: מילך

Verwant aan Deens: mælk

Verwant aan Noors - Bokmål: mjølk

Verwant aan Noors - Nynorsk: mjølk

Verwant aan Zweeds: mjölk

Verwant aan IJslands: mjólk

Verwant aan Faeröers: mjólk

Verwant aan Albanees: mjel

Verwant aan Pools: mleko

Verwant aan Russisch: молоко́

Verwant aan Welsh: blith

Verwant aan Tokharian A: malke

Verwant aan Litouws: malkas

Verwant aan Lets: malks

Verwant aan Oudgrieks: μέλκιον

Overgenomen van Middelengels: milken

Overgenomen van Oudengels: melcan

Verwant aan Nederlands: -

Verwant aan Duits: melken

Verwant aan Deens: malke

Verwant aan Noors: mjølke

Verwant aan Latijn: mulgeō

Verwant aan Oudgrieks: ἀμέλγω

Verwant aan Litouws: mélžti

Verwant aan 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.

Concepten

melk

🥛

melken

🥛

ontlokken

onttrekken

uitbuiten

uitmelken

melk geven

melk-

koeiemelk

Synoniemen

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

Zinnen

Should be drinking milk .

It is no use crying over spilt milk .

Het heeft geen zin om te huilen over gemorste melk.