clarified butter
clarified butter noun: a cooking fat made by gently heating butter and separating the solids from the butterfat.
Noun
clarified butter (usually uncountable, plural clarified butters)
- A cooking fat made by gently heating butter and separating the solids from the butterfat.
- The means whereby the sailors do this, is, first to dress the meat, then cut it into slices; and laying them regularly one upon another in a close cask, they pour clarified butter thereon to fill up all the interstices1725, Robert Boyle, The Philosophical Works of the Honourable Robert Boyle, Esq, page 52
- […]when they are cold, put them into potting-pots and pour over them clarified butter, and keep them in a dry place.1795, Elizabeth Raffald, The Experienced Housekeeper, page 146
clarified butter meaning in Hindi, Urdu, Telugu and Gujarati
clarified butter in Hindi
- cooking fat made from butter
- घी ghī
clarified butter in Urdu
- cooking fat made from butter
- گھی ghī
clarified butter in Telugu
- clarified butter, ghee
- సర్పి sarpi
clarified butter in Gujarati
- cooking fat made from butter
- ઘી ghī
More languagesFewer languages
- clarified butter in Sanskrit
- घृत ghṛta
- clarified butter in Arabic
- سمن samn
- clarified butter in Persian
- روغن گاو roġan-e gâv, گاوروغن gâvroġan, روغن حیوانی roġan-e heyvâni
- clarified butter in Thai
- เนยใส nəəi-sǎi
Forms of clarified butter
| plural | clarified butters |
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Origin of clarified butter
From clarified + butter, from Middle English clarifien and buter. Earliest attestation of clarified in this sense from the 14th century.
Questions about clarified butter
- What does clarified butter mean?
- Clarified butter means a cooking fat made by gently heating butter and separating the solids from the butterfat.
- What is clarified butter in Hindi?
- Clarified butter in Hindi is घी (ghī). See Clarified butter meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is clarified butter?
- Clarified butter is a noun.
- What is the plural of clarified butter?
- The plural of clarified butter is clarified butters.
Words near clarified butter in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: clarified butter (page history and authors); సర్పి (Telugu) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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