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زُبْد
butter /ˈzubd/
nounB2#3132 most common
Also: cream fat (churned)
Example sentences
أُحِبُّ الزُّبْدَ كَثِيرًا.
I like butter a lot.
ضَعِي الزُّبْدَ عَلَى الخُبْزِ.
Put the butter on the bread.
ذَابَ الزُّبْدُ فِي المِقْلَاةِ السَّاخِنَةِ.
The butter melted in the hot pan.
تُصْنَعُ هَذِهِ الكَعْكَةُ بِكَمِّيَّةٍ كَبِيرَةٍ مِنَ الزُّبْدِ.
This cake is made with a large amount of butter.
يَحْتَوِي هَذَا الزُّبْدُ المُخْفُوقُ عَلَى مِلْحٍ أَقَلَّ مِنَ الزُّبْدِ العَادِيِّ.
This whipped butter contains less salt than ordinary butter.
تُفَضِّلُ بَعْضُ رَبَّاتِ البُيُوتِ اسْتِبْدَالَ الزُّبْدِ بِزَيْتِ الزَّيْتُونِ فِي الوَصَفَاتِ الصِّحِّيَّةِ لِتَقْلِيلِ الدُّهُونِ المُشَبَّعَةِ.
Some housewives prefer to replace butter with olive oil in health-conscious recipes to cut saturated fat.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | زُبْدٌ | زُبُودٌ |
| Genitive | زُبْدٍ | زُبُودٍ |
| Accusative | زُبْدًا | زُبُودًا |
| Vocative | يَا زُبْدُ | يَا زُبُودُ |
Word family
زُبْدَةa pat or portion of butter; also used loosely for 'butter'
زَبَدfoam, froth
مُزْبِدfoaming, frothing
زَبَّادcivet cat (source of a musk historically linked to the same root)
Etymology
Zubd comes from the Semitic root z-b-d, which carries the sense of froth or foam. Butter forms a frothy layer when cream is churned, and that visual link likely gave the root its second meaning of butter itself. The same root also yields zabad, the plain word for foam or spume on water. Arabic dictionaries treat zubd as the collective noun for butter as a substance, with zubda as the singulative for a portion or pat of it.
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