Whey

Noun

 * 1) The liquid remaining after milk has been curdled and strained in the process of making cheese.

Thesaurus
beverage, blood, butter, buttermilk, certified milk, cheese, condensed milk, cream, dairy products, drink, fluid, fluid extract, fluid mechanics, ghee, half-and-half, heavy cream, hydraulics, hydrogeology, juice, latex, light cream, liquid, liquid extract, liquor, margarine, milk, nonfat dry milk, oleo, oleomargarine, raw milk, sap, semiliquid, skim milk, sour cream, water, whipping cream, yogurt

Etymology
wheye:, whei:, from hwæg:, hweg:, from  (cf. West Frisian waei:, Dutch wei:, hui:, Low German undefined:, undefined:), perhaps from  'to pile up, build' (cf. Old Church Slavonic чинъ:, Ancient Greek ποιέω:, Sanskrit undefined: 'body').

Pronunciation

 * (in accents with the wine-whine merger)
 * (in accents with the wine-whine merger)
 * (in accents with the wine-whine merger)

Translations

 * Albanian: hirrë
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:, ορός γάλακτος
 * Hungarian: savó


 * Icelandic: mysa
 * Italian: di
 * Macedonian: сурутка
 * Persian: (âb-panir)
 * Portuguese: soro
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Serbian: сурутка (surutka)
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: vassle, vassla

Derived terms

 * wheyey
 * wheylike