Etymology

prostokvasha

P3R1O1S1T1O1K5V4A1S1H4A1

Today it means: A thick soured milk product, similar to unsweetened yogurt but less sour, or kefir but thicker. In Russia or other former USSR republics, commercial and home-made prostokvasha comes in different varieties: "varenets" (варене́ц), "ryazhenka" (ря́женка), katyk/qatıq (каты́к), etc. Full definition →

Russian простоква́ша
Ask AI about its historyChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

The story

  1. Russian · derived fromпростоква́ша
  2. English todayprostokvasha

From Russian простоква́ша (prostokváša).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.