Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Variant of kumiss.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. See kumiss.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. An intoxicating fermented or distilled liquor originally made by the Tartars of central Asia from mare's or camel's milk. It can be obtained from any kind of milk, and is now largely made in Europe.
WordNet 3.0
- n. an alcoholic beverage made from fermented mare's milk; made originally by nomads of central Asia
Etymologies
- Via French koumis, German Kumiss, from Russian кумыс (kumýs), borrowed from a Turkic source. Compare Tatar кымыз (kımız), Kazakh қымыз (qımız), Kyrgyz кымыз (kımız), Turkish kımız, Azeri qımız. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“[16] The Tartars use an intoxicating liquor called koumiss, made from mare's or camel's milk.”
Narrative and Lyric Poems (first series) for use in the Lower School
“Lactic acid sours milk, and gives yogurt and other forms of sour milk such as koumiss, kefir, and leban their distinct flavor.”
“Mare's milk is still drunk in Kazakhstan, a country in which horse traditions run deep, and is usually fermented into a slightly alcoholic drink called 'koumiss'.”
“a country in which horse traditions run deep, and is usually fermented into a slightly alcoholic drink called 'koumiss'.”
“And koumiss, a drink still important to the regional diet today, is made from mare's milk.”
“I chose some terms at random and looked them up: oleic acid, no entry; jugged hare, found; waterzooi, found; cracklings, found; koumiss, found; ergot, not found.”
“Even so, frequent contact with central Asian nomads introduced a variety of dairy products to China, whose elite long enjoyed yogurt, koumiss, butter, acid-set curds, and, around 1300 and thanks to the Mongols, even milk in their tea!”
Simon & Schuster: On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen
“Among the nomadic tribes of northern Europe and central Asia who did not even cultivate grain, milk was fermented into the drinks called kefir and koumiss.”
Simon & Schuster: On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen
“[177-9] From mares 'milk is made koumiss, a favorite fermented drink of”
“Better still: drink toast - or rice-water; kefyr, four days old; koumiss; lactic-acid water; zoolak; egg lemonade; sterilized milk with one third lime-water; whortleberry wine; acorn cocoa; unfermented grape-juice.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘koumiss’.
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HU Realia
Cultural realia from Hungary.
I have only included realia that already have an English spelling variant and DID NOT include Hungarian words that would be used in English texts unchang...charcoal kiln, embroidered felt ..., farmstead, golden stick, graft, herdsman’s whip, inn, lever well, limekiln, local border traffic, maypole, merino and 356 more...
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Tangible things that define a culture
Could be a food, an implement, a custom, a weather condition....
koumiss, nasaaq, royal icing, carpet bag, bishkek, spirtle, hunt meeting, mfh, glitterati, business card, niqab, burqa and 1 more...
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Theres a word for that?
people are too specific
spacefaring, sett, koumiss, epitaph, hymenium, esprit de l'escalier, tachophobia, mise en place, quoin, podfading, tower of strength, cantatrice and 9 more...
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Mollusque's miscellany
A mixture of words that I like or have commented on, along with ones parked here so they'd be listed somewhere or remind me of lists I want to make.
oranger, monographer, preoccupied, bu, bobization, coinventor, tetrapyloctomy, borgmannian, suspercollate, manhug, mancrush, obituarist and 604 more...
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amaurosis, telluric, scandent, paludal, tomalley, mithridate, adit, futhark, premorse, chigoe, chinch, ennead and 24 more...
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Fermentations
fermented foods from all cultures
beer, tempeh, bread, kefir, yoghurt, langfil, bouza, sauerkraut, choucroute, kimchi, vinegar, kumis and 11 more...
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perhapsolutely's Words
polyradiculoneuro..., abulia, abubble, abscission, abaft, zareba, abatis, abigail, abiogenesis, ablate, ablaut, abo and 1705 more...
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Food and Drink
And all things pertaining.
vittle, tine, piss, mingo, abstemious, tisane, cornucopia, tipple, wassail, decoct, corpulent, stout and 19 more...
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BrainyBabe Also transliterated kumis, and various alternates. Known in Mongolia as airag. Dec 22, 2008