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Butter in Any Tongue

The language of creamy goodness.

The language of creamy goodness.

bataa (Japanese)
beurre (French)
boter (Dutch)
boutyros (Greek)
burro (Italian)
butter (English)
Butter (German)
sviests (Latvian)
ibhotela (isizulu)
im (Irish)
kareh (Farsi)
chem'ah (Hebrew)
koch (Pashto)
makkhan (Hindi)
makkhan (Punjabi)
makkhan (Urdu)
manteiga (Portuguese)
mantequilla (Spanish)
maslo (Czech)
masło (Polish)
maslo (Russian)
maslo (Slovak)
maslo (Ukrainian)
mentega (Malay)
naiyou (Mandarin)
nivişk (Kurdish)
puter (Yiddish)
siagi (Swahili)
smør (Danish)
smør (Norwegian)
smor (Swedish)
sviestas (Lithuanian)
unt (Romanian)
vaj (Hungarian)
zubdah (Arabic)

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