Forms: 7 yoghurd, yogourt, 9 yahourt, yaghourt, yogurd, yoghourt, yooghort, yughard, -urt, yogurt, yohourth. See also YAOURT. [Turkish yōghurt.] A sour fermented liquor made from milk, used in Turkey and other countries of the Levant.
1625. Purchas, Pilgrims, II. IX. xv. & 9. 1601. Neither doe they [sc. the Turks] eate much Milke, except it bee made sower, which they call Yoghurd.
1687. A. Lovell, trans. Thevenot’s Trav., II. 25. A kind of Butter-milk by them [sc. Turks] called Yogourt, which they drink.
1837. Pardoe, City of Sultan (1838), III. vi. 83. The yahourt-merchant, with his … trays covered with little brown clay basins, showing forth the creamy whiteness of his merchandize.
1883. E. O’Donovan, Merv, xviii. 216. We halted to … refresh ourselves with a draught of yaghourt.
1912. Dundee Adv., 2 Nov., 7. Servian yoghourt is well known.
