tvorog

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian творо́г (tvoróg) / тво́рог (tvórog), from Proto-Slavic *tvarogъ, possibly from *tvorъ (“form”) (Proto-Indo-European *twerH) + *-ogъ.

Doublet of quark.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtvɔːɹəɡ/, /tvəˈɹəʊɡ/
• Rhymes: -əʊɡ

Noun

tvorog (uncountable)

1. A soft Russian curd cheese.
   • 2005, James Meek, The People's Act of Love, Canongate, published 2006, page 84:

     Anna took her camera to the market and photographed old peasant women in curdstained aprons standing with their big knuckles resting on the counter on either side of ruined white castles of tvorog, their eyes deep and sceptical behind red cheekbones.

Translations

a soft Russian curd cheese

• Armenian: կաթնաշոռ (hy) (katʿnašoṙ)
• Belarusian: тваро́г m (tvaróh)
• Bulgarian: тваро́г m (tvaróg)
• Czech: tvaroh (cs) m
• Estonian: kohupiim
• German: Quark (de) m
• Ingrian: rahka
• Japanese: クワルク (kuwaruku)
• Kazakh: сүзбе (kk) (süzbe)
• Korean: 크바르크 (keubareukeu)
• Mari:

  Eastern Mari: торык (toryk)

• Polish: twaróg (pl) m
• Russian: творо́г (ru) m (tvoróg), тво́рог (ru) m (tvórog)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: тва̀рог m

  Roman: tvàrog (sh) m

• Slovak: tvaroh m
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: twarog m

  Upper Sorbian: twaroh m

• Tatar: эремчек (tt) (eremçek)
• Ukrainian: тварі́г m (tvaríh)
• Uzbek: tvorog
• Vilamovian: twiöeg m, twiög m, twuöḱ m
• Yiddish: צוואָרעך m (tsvorekh)