blue cheese

English

Alternative forms

• bleu cheese (Canada, US)

Pronunciation

• enPR: blo͞o chēzʹ
• (General American) IPA^(key): /blu ˈtʃiz/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /bluː ˈtʃiːz/
• Rhymes: -iːz

Noun

blue cheese (countable and uncountable, plural blue cheeses)

1. A kind of cheese made with bluish mold in it.

   Hyponyms: Roquefort, gorgonzola, Stilton

Translations

kind of cheese with bluish mold

• Arabic: جُبْنَة زَرْقَاء f (jubna zarqāʔ)

  Egyptian Arabic: ركفورد f (rekford)

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 藍芝士／蓝芝士 (laam⁴ zi¹ si^6-2)

  Mandarin: 藍乾酪／蓝干酪 (lángānlào)

• Czech: niva (cs) f
• Danish: blåskimmelost (da) c, blå ost c
• Dutch: blauwschimmelkaas m
• Esperanto: blua fromaĝo sg
• Estonian: sinihallitusjuust
• Finnish: sinihomejuusto (fi)
• French: fromage bleu m, bleu (fr) m
• German: Blauschimmelkäse (de) m
• Greek: μπλε τυρί n (ble tyrí)
• Hebrew: גְּבִינָה כְּחֻלָּה f (g'viná k'khulá)
• Icelandic: gráðostur (is) m
• Italian: formaggio erborinato m
• Japanese: ブルーチーズ (burūchīzu)
• Korean: 블루 치즈 (beullu chijeu)
• Kyrgyz: көк сыр (ky) (kök sır)
• Maltese: ġobon tat-tursina
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: blåost m, blåmuggost m

• Polish: niebieski ser m, ser pleśniowy m
• Portuguese: queijo azul m
• Romanian: brânză cu mucegai f
• Russian: голубо́й сыр (ru) m (golubój syr)
• Spanish: queso azul m
• Swedish: mögelost (sv), ädelost (sv) c, blåmögelost (sv) c, grönmögelost (sv) c
• Tagalog: kesong asul
• Turkish: mavi damarlı peynir, mavi küflü peynir

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