ghee

noun

variants or ghi
: a semifluid clarified butter made especially in India

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These include ready-to-drink bone broth, raw dairy, colostrum powder, bone marrow and collagen supplements, liver crisps, ghee, biltong, and cooking fats such as lard and duck fat. Daphne Ewing-Chow, Forbes.com, 21 May 2026 From the looming white-domed oven emerge the flakiest pies, feteer, built of gauzy layers of dough, pressed with ghee and stretched, then folded one inside another around your choice of filling. Ligaya Mishan, New York Times, 11 May 2026 The work’s narrator is travelling from the port of Batavia to the Sunda Islands on a ship filled with ghee, opium, and jaggery. Lauren Collins, New Yorker, 27 Apr. 2026 The air is thick with the smell of ghee and wood smoke from the sacred fires. Ayushi Shah, CNN Money, 31 Mar. 2026 See All Example Sentences for ghee

Word History

Etymology

Hindi & Urdu ghī, from Sanskrit ghṛta

First Known Use

1665, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of ghee was in 1665

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“Ghee.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ghee. Accessed 2 Jul. 2026.

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