Butter

Concepts

butter

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grease

lard

fat

oil

tallow

wax

colcannon

edible fat

Bath Oliver

butter

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butter

🧈

butyric

margarine

shortcake

suet

Synonyms

Fett

Schmalz

Öl

Speisefett

Wachs

Schweineschmalz

Eier als Zutaten

Margarine

Kölle

Milch

🥛

Translations

beurre

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burro

🧈

mantequilla

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boter

🧈

manteiga

🧈

βούτυρο

mantega

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manteca

زبدة

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tereyağı

🧈

butyrum

کهره

burre

huile

Dialects

Aargau

anke

Appenzell Innerrhoden

anke

Appenzell Ausserrhoden

schmalz

Basel-Landschaft

angge

Fribourg

òòche

Fribourg

òòhe

St. Gallen

schmaalz

Zürich

anke

Data provided by: Deutsch-Schweizerdeutsches Wörterbuch

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈbʊtɐ/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle High German: buter

Inherited from Old High German: butera

In summary

From Middle High German buter, butter, from Old High German butera, from Proto-West Germanic *buterā (“butter”).
Though originally feminine, the word became masculine throughout Upper German and in southern dialects of West Central German. The now established feminine gender is East Central German, reinforced by Middle Low German boter f.