milk
A white liquid produced by the mammary glands of female mammals to nourish their youngA 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.
» There's only a little milk left.
Es ist nur noch wenig Milch da. — Sudajaengi
Es ist nur ein bisschen Milch übrig. — Yorwba
Молока осталось совсем немного. — marafon
Лишилося лише трохи молока. — deniko
CK · Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FRMeaning
7 senses(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.
Skyr is a product made of curdled milk.
Milch
молоко́molokó
молоко́molokó
produced by mammary glands of female mammals for feeding their young
(broadly, uncountable)A white (or whitish) liquid obtained from a vegetable source such as almonds, coconuts, oats, rice, or soy beans.
(countable, informal)An individual serving of milk.
Table three ordered three milks.
молоко́molokó
(countable, invariable)An individual portion of milk, such as found in a creamer, for tea and coffee.
I take my tea with two milks and two sugars.
I take my tea with two milk and two sugar.
(countable, uncountable)A light white color inspired by the color of milk, usually cow's milk.
(countable, uncountable)The ripe, undischarged spat of an oyster.
(slang, uncountable, vulgar)Semen.
Examples
1988 sentencesThere's only a little milk left.
Лишилося лише трохи молока. — deniko
ruМолока осталось совсем немного. — marafon
deEs ist nur noch wenig Milch da. — Sudajaengi
Can I have some more milk?
Можна мені ще молока? — deniko
ruМожно мне ещё молока? — marafon
deKönnte ich noch etwas Milch haben? — Pfirsichbaeumchen
The glass is full of milk.
Шклянка повна молока. — Ahha
ruСтакан полон молока. — Aleksej
deDas Glas ist voll mit Milch. — linguaeorbis
Children should drink milk every day.
Діти повинні кожного дня пити молоко. — shanghainese
ruДети должны каждый день пить молоко. — sharptoothed
deKinder sollten jeden Tag Milch trinken. — MUIRIEL
Give me a glass of milk.
Дай мені склянку молока. — deniko
ruДай мне стакан молока. — sharptoothed
deGib mir ein Glas Milch. — MUIRIEL
Translations
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Origin
From Middle English milk, mylk, melk, mulc, from Old English meolc, meoluc (“milk”), fromFrom Middle English milk, mylk, melk, mulc, from Old English meolc, meoluc (“milk”), from Proto-West Germanic *meluk (“milk”), from Proto-Germanic *meluks (“milk”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂melǵ- (“milk, to milk”).
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Forms
plural: milksSynonyms
8 synonyms- a river that rises in the Rockies in northwestern Montana and flows eastward to become a tributary of the Missouri River:Milk River
Word family
216 related wordsLessons for this word
2 lessons- A1Food and drink — Because the lesson uses it
- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable
Collocations
12 patterns- glass of milk
- some milk
- milk a cow
- milk the cows
- drink milk
- buy some milk
- poured some milk
- milk in the
- milk a goat
- how much milk
- drink more milk
- how to milk
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.