yogourt

English

Etymology

From French yogourt, yoghourt, from Turkish; see yogurt.

Noun

yogourt (countable and uncountable, plural yogourts)

1. Canada spelling of yogurt

Usage notes

The spelling yogourt is common on product labels in Canada because it is valid in both English and French, as products are required to be labelled in both languages. Yogurt remains by far the most common spelling in other contexts, however.

References

• “yogourt” in the Canadian Oxford Dictionary, Second Edition, Oxford University Press, 2004.

French

Alternative forms

• yaourt (France, Belgium)

Etymology

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.

Pronunciation

• (Canada) IPA^(key): /jɔ.ɡuʁ/, /jo.ɡuʁ/
• (Europe) IPA^(key): /jɔ.ɡuʁt/; /jo.ɡuʁt/

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Noun

yogourt m (plural yogourts)

1. (North America, Switzerland, Belgium, Rwanda, Congo) yogurt
2. post-1990 spelling of yoghourt

Usage notes

The form yogourt is common on product labels in Canada because it is valid in both English and French, as products are required to be labelled in both languages.

Further reading

• “yogourt”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.