If you churn goat milk, you'll get sour milk and butter.
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Churn
//tʃɜːn//
Synonyms for "churn" (128 found)
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Closest matches (26)
Strong matches (38)
Related words (64)
Related word relations
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More general
3 entriescapable of
1 entriesderived
23 entriesShowing 16 of 23 words.
has context
4 entriesis a
3 entriesmanner of
2 entriesrelated to
29 entriesShowing 16 of 29 words.
Translations
153 translations across 58 languages.
Albanian
2 entries- dybek noun (vessel for churning)
- dylbek noun (vessel for churning)
Ancient Greek
1 entries- βράσσω verb (figuratively: produce excessive motion)
Arabic
2 entries- مَخَاضَة noun (vessel for churning)
- خض verb (agitate rapidly)
Armenian
2 entries- խնոցի noun (vessel for churning)
- ձձում noun (vessel for churning)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- nehrə noun (vessel for churning)
Bulgarian
2 entries- буталка noun (vessel for churning)
- разбърквам verb (agitate rapidly)
Caló
1 entries- chunelar verb (agitate rapidly)
Catalan
2 entries- lletera noun (vessel for churning)
- manteguera noun (vessel for churning)
Chinese Mandarin
3 entries- 攪乳器 /搅乳器 noun (vessel for churning)
- 攪 /搅 verb (agitate rapidly)
- 翻騰 /翻腾 verb (figuratively: produce excessive motion)
Czech
4 entries- rozvířit verb (figuratively: produce excessive motion)
- rozčeřit verb (figuratively: produce excessive motion)
- stlouci verb (agitate rapidly)
- stloukat verb (agitate rapidly)
Danish
1 entries- kjerne noun (vessel for churning)
Dutch
4 entries- botervat noun (vessel for churning)
- karn noun (vessel for churning)
- overstap noun (time when customer switches provider)
- overstapkandidaten noun (people ready to switch carrier)
Esperanto
1 entries- buterigilo noun (vessel for churning)
Faroese
1 entries- kirna verb (agitate rapidly)
Finnish
4 entries- kirnu noun (vessel for churning)
- liittymän vaihto noun (time when customer switches provider)
- hämmentää verb (figuratively: produce excessive motion)
- kirnuta verb (agitate rapidly)
French
4 entries- baratte noun (vessel for churning)
- agiter verb (figuratively: produce excessive motion)
- agiter verb (tumble)
- baratter verb (agitate rapidly)
Galician
4 entries- anazar verb (agitate rapidly)
- bater verb (agitate rapidly)
- mazar verb (agitate rapidly)
- petar verb (agitate rapidly)
Georgian
1 entries- სადღვებელი noun (vessel for churning)
German
4 entries- Butterfass noun (vessel for churning)
- Butterfaß noun (vessel for churning)
- Butterfertiger noun (vessel for churning)
- Kerne noun (vessel for churning)
Greek
2 entries- δουρβάνι noun (vessel for churning)
- μπουτινέλο noun (vessel for churning)
Hebrew
2 entries- נטישה noun (vessel for churning)
- לערבל verb (agitate rapidly)
Hindi
2 entries- मथनी noun (vessel for churning)
- मथना verb (agitate rapidly)
Hungarian
1 entries- köpül verb (agitate rapidly)
Icelandic
2 entries- kirna noun (vessel for churning)
- strokka verb (agitate rapidly)
Ingrian
3 entries- hörsky noun (vessel for churning)
- kirnu noun (vessel for churning)
- kirnuta verb (agitate rapidly)
Irish
3 entries- cuinneog noun (vessel for churning)
- meadar noun (vessel for churning)
- maistrigh verb (agitate rapidly)
Italian
4 entries- zangola noun (vessel for churning)
- frullare verb (agitate rapidly)
- frullare verb (tumble)
- ribollire verb (agitate rapidly)
Japanese
1 entries- 撹乳器 noun (vessel for churning)
Kamkata-vari
1 entries- matë́ verb (agitate rapidly)
Ladino
1 entries- meniar rezio verb (agitate rapidly)
Latin
1 entries- agitare verb (agitate rapidly)
Latvian
1 entries- ķērne noun (vessel for churning)
Low German
1 entries- karne noun (vessel for churning)
Macedonian
1 entries- бутин noun (vessel for churning)
Marathi
2 entries- घुसळणे verb (agitate rapidly)
- मंथन verb (agitate rapidly)
Māori
1 entries- pīkari verb (agitate rapidly)
Norman
3 entries- bathette noun (vessel for churning)
- ribot noun (vessel for churning)
- pêtri verb (agitate rapidly)
Northern Kurdish
3 entries- meşk noun (vessel for churning)
- sirsûm noun (vessel for churning)
- xinûsî noun (vessel for churning)
Norwegian Bokmål
2 entries- kjerne noun (vessel for churning)
- kjerne verb (agitate rapidly)
Old English
2 entries- ċeren noun (vessel for churning)
- ċyrin noun (vessel for churning)
Ottoman Turkish
2 entries- یایق noun (vessel for churning)
- یایمق verb (agitate rapidly)
Persian
1 entries- نهره noun (vessel for churning)
Polish
4 entries- kierzanka noun (vessel for churning)
- maselnica noun (vessel for churning)
- maślnica noun (vessel for churning)
- burzyć verb (agitate rapidly)
Portuguese
3 entries- batedeira noun (vessel for churning)
- agitar verb (agitate rapidly)
- bater verb (agitate rapidly)
Romanian
2 entries- putinei noun (vessel for churning)
- bate verb (agitate rapidly)
Russian
4 entries- маслобо́йка noun (vessel for churning)
- отто́к абоне́нтов noun (time when customer switches provider)
- взба́лтывать verb (agitate rapidly)
- взбива́ть verb (agitate rapidly)
Scottish Gaelic
4 entries- biota noun (vessel for churning)
- muidhe noun (vessel for churning)
- maistir verb (agitate rapidly)
- maistrich verb (agitate rapidly)
Sindhi
1 entries- फिटणी verb (agitate rapidly)
Slovak
2 entries- stĺkať verb (agitate rapidly)
- tĺcť verb (agitate rapidly)
Spanish
4 entries- lechera noun (vessel for churning)
- mantequera noun (vessel for churning)
- agitar verb (agitate rapidly)
- batir verb (agitate rapidly)
Swedish
2 entries- kärna noun (vessel for churning)
- kärna verb (agitate rapidly)
Tarifit
1 entries- sseryi verb (agitate rapidly)
Telugu
1 entries- చిలుకు verb (agitate rapidly)
Turkish
1 entries- yayık noun (vessel for churning)
Udi
2 entries- буйкӏал noun (vessel for churning)
- хноцӏи noun (vessel for churning)
Walloon
3 entries- bourtea noun (vessel for churning)
- serene noun (vessel for churning)
- toûnwere noun (vessel for churning)
Welsh
2 entries- buddai noun (vessel for churning)
- corddi verb (agitate rapidly)
West-Frisian
1 entries- tsjerne noun (vessel for churning)
Sample sentences
22 total sentences available.
It will churn out only goodness in the long run.
Source: tatoeba (3283458)
Churn the butter before you go.
Source: tatoeba (5788581)
A butter churn is just one type of wooden tub which the Scots refer to as a sae.
Source: tatoeba (8490179)
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