It's neither milk nor whey.
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Whey
//hweɪ//
Synonyms for "whey" (40 found)
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Closest matches (8)
Strong matches (12)
Related words (20)
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4 entriesat location
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8 entriesis a
2 entriesrelated to
5 entriesTranslations
91 translations across 70 languages.
Albanian
2 entries- hirrë noun (liquid remaining after milk has been curdled)
- thartor noun (liquid remaining after milk has been curdled)
Ancient Greek
1 entries- ὀρός noun (liquid remaining after milk has been curdled)
Arabic
4 entries- شرش noun (liquid remaining after milk has been curdled)
- شِرْش noun (liquid remaining after milk has been curdled)
- مَاء الْجُبْن noun (liquid remaining after milk has been curdled)
- مَصْل noun (liquid remaining after milk has been curdled)
Armenian
1 entries- շիճուկ noun (liquid remaining after milk has been curdled)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- zərdab noun (liquid remaining after milk has been curdled)
Basque
1 entries- gazur noun (liquid remaining after milk has been curdled)
Belarusian
1 entries- сыро́ватка noun (liquid remaining after milk has been curdled)
Breton
1 entries- laezh-glas noun (liquid remaining after milk has been curdled)
Bulgarian
1 entries- сурова́тка noun (liquid remaining after milk has been curdled)
Catalan
1 entries- xerigot noun (liquid remaining after milk has been curdled)
Chinese Cantonese
1 entries- 乳清 noun (liquid remaining after milk has been curdled)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 乳清 noun (liquid remaining after milk has been curdled)
Czech
1 entries- syrovátka noun (liquid remaining after milk has been curdled)
Danish
1 entries- valle noun (liquid remaining after milk has been curdled)
Dutch
1 entries- wei noun (liquid remaining after milk has been curdled)
Esperanto
1 entries- selakto noun (liquid remaining after milk has been curdled)
Estonian
1 entries- vadak noun (liquid remaining after milk has been curdled)
Faroese
1 entries- mysa noun (liquid remaining after milk has been curdled)
Finnish
1 entries- hera noun (liquid remaining after milk has been curdled)
French
1 entries- petit-lait noun (liquid remaining after milk has been curdled)
Galician
1 entries- soro noun (liquid remaining after milk has been curdled)
Georgian
1 entries- შრატი noun (liquid remaining after milk has been curdled)
German
1 entries- Molke noun (liquid remaining after milk has been curdled)
Greek
2 entries- ξινόγαλο noun (liquid remaining after milk has been curdled)
- ορός γάλακτος noun (liquid remaining after milk has been curdled)
Hebrew
2 entries- מֵי גְּבִינָה noun (liquid remaining after milk has been curdled)
- נסיוב noun (liquid remaining after milk has been curdled)
Hindi
2 entries- दूध का पानी noun (liquid remaining after milk has been curdled)
- मठ्ठा noun (liquid remaining after milk has been curdled)
Hungarian
1 entries- savó noun (liquid remaining after milk has been curdled)
Icelandic
1 entries- mysa noun (liquid remaining after milk has been curdled)
Ido
1 entries- selakto noun (liquid remaining after milk has been curdled)
Indonesian
2 entries- air dadih noun (liquid remaining after milk has been curdled)
- laktoserum noun (liquid remaining after milk has been curdled)
Irish
1 entries- meadhg noun (liquid remaining after milk has been curdled)
Italian
1 entries- siero di latte noun (liquid remaining after milk has been curdled)
Japanese
1 entries- 乳清 noun (liquid remaining after milk has been curdled)
Kazakh
1 entries- сарысу noun (liquid remaining after milk has been curdled)
Khmer
1 entries- ទឹកដោះថ្លា noun (liquid remaining after milk has been curdled)
Korean
1 entries- 유청 noun (liquid remaining after milk has been curdled)
Kyrgyz
1 entries- сары суу noun (liquid remaining after milk has been curdled)
Latin
1 entries- serum noun (liquid remaining after milk has been curdled)
Latvian
1 entries- sūkalas noun (liquid remaining after milk has been curdled)
Lithuanian
1 entries- išrūgos noun (liquid remaining after milk has been curdled)
Lower Sorbian
2 entries- serowatka noun (liquid remaining after milk has been curdled)
- srowatka noun (liquid remaining after milk has been curdled)
Luxembourgish
1 entries- Wässeg noun (liquid remaining after milk has been curdled)
Macedonian
2 entries- сурутка noun (liquid remaining after milk has been curdled)
- ѕира noun (liquid remaining after milk has been curdled)
Malay
2 entries- dadih susu noun (liquid remaining after milk has been curdled)
- whey noun (liquid remaining after milk has been curdled)
Māori
2 entries- wai karera noun (liquid remaining after milk has been curdled)
- wei noun (liquid remaining after milk has been curdled)
Norman
1 entries- meigue noun (liquid remaining after milk has been curdled)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- myse noun (liquid remaining after milk has been curdled)
Ossetian
1 entries- сулу noun (liquid remaining after milk has been curdled)
Persian
2 entries- آبپنیر noun (liquid remaining after milk has been curdled)
- پنیرآب noun (liquid remaining after milk has been curdled)
Polish
1 entries- serwatka noun (liquid remaining after milk has been curdled)
Portuguese
1 entries- soro noun (liquid remaining after milk has been curdled)
Punjabi
1 entries- ਪਨੀਰ ਪਾਣੀ noun (liquid remaining after milk has been curdled)
Romanian
1 entries- zer noun (liquid remaining after milk has been curdled)
Russian
1 entries- сы́воротка noun (liquid remaining after milk has been curdled)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- sȕrutka noun (liquid remaining after milk has been curdled)
- су̏рутка noun (liquid remaining after milk has been curdled)
Sicilian
1 entries- seru noun (liquid remaining after milk has been curdled)
Slovak
1 entries- srvátka noun (liquid remaining after milk has been curdled)
Slovene
1 entries- sírotka noun (liquid remaining after milk has been curdled)
Spanish
1 entries- suero noun (liquid remaining after milk has been curdled)
Swedish
2 entries- vassla noun (liquid remaining after milk has been curdled)
- vassle noun (liquid remaining after milk has been curdled)
Tajik
1 entries- зардоб noun (liquid remaining after milk has been curdled)
Tarifit
1 entries- aɣi noun (liquid remaining after milk has been curdled)
Thai
1 entries- หางนม noun (liquid remaining after milk has been curdled)
Turkish
2 entries- kesilmiş süt suyu noun (liquid remaining after milk has been curdled)
- peynir altı suyu noun (liquid remaining after milk has been curdled)
Ukrainian
2 entries- дзер noun (liquid remaining after milk has been curdled)
- сиро́ватка noun (liquid remaining after milk has been curdled)
Upper Sorbian
2 entries- syrowatka noun (liquid remaining after milk has been curdled)
- syrwatka noun (liquid remaining after milk has been curdled)
Uzbek
1 entries- zardob noun (liquid remaining after milk has been curdled)
Vietnamese
2 entries- nước sữa noun (liquid remaining after milk has been curdled)
- váng sữa noun (liquid remaining after milk has been curdled)
Welsh
1 entries- maidd noun (liquid remaining after milk has been curdled)
Yiddish
3 entries- סיראָוועטקע noun (liquid remaining after milk has been curdled)
- סעראָוועטקע noun (liquid remaining after milk has been curdled)
- סראָוועטקע noun (liquid remaining after milk has been curdled)
Sample sentences
16 total sentences available.
The whey is in the fridge.
Source: tatoeba (8373982)
He served them couscous and whey.
Source: tatoeba (8510005)
Did you keep the whey after you strained the yogurt?
Source: tatoeba (8733278)
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