koumiss
English
editEtymology
editVia French koumis, German Kumiss, from Russian кумы́с (kumýs), borrowed from a Turkic source. Compare Tatar кымыз (qımız), Kazakh қымыз (qymyz), Kyrgyz кымыз (kımız), Northern Altai кымыс (kïmïs), Turkish kımız, Azerbaijani qımız.
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editkoumiss (usually uncountable, plural koumisses)
- A fermented drink made from mare's milk, common among peoples of the Central Asian steppes.
- 1898, Herbert Allen Giles, A Chinese Biographical Dictionary, page 12:
- [Of a Persian wine] One name for this wine was 黑水晶 "black crystal"; it has also been confused with koumiss.
- 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, page 688:
- Here, for example—a Scythian koumiss vessel, third century B.C. You can clearly see the Greek influence, especially in the friezework.
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editfermented drink
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