Masculine
yogourt
- (Belgium, Congo, North-America, Rwanda, Switzerland, masculine) yogurt
- (masculine) post-1990 spelling of yoghourt
Frequency
Pronounced as (IPA)
/jɔ.ɡuʁ/
Etymology
In summary
Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish یوغورت (yōghurt, yoğurt) (Modern Turkish yoğurt). The form yogourt comes from the original Ottoman Turkish whilst the form yaourt comes from the variation yoğurt which is now the standard in Modern Turkish. Compare with cognates of the word in many European languages, e.g. German Joghurt, Italian iogurt, Finnish jogurtti.
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