Talk:Yak butter

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Isn't "yak" specifically the males? Devangel77b (talk) 15:32, 10 July 2011 (UTC)


 * According to Yak:
 * "in Tibetan yak refers only to the male of the species, the female being called a dri or nak. In English, as in most other languages which have borrowed the word, yak is usually used for both sexes."
 * I've read a lot of books about the Himilayas and never saw it as anything but "Yak butter", Google would concur most common. It still might be useful to list versions of the name, in fact inevitable other editors will do so. -- Green Cardamom (talk) 16:00, 10 July 2011 (UTC)

Tibetans think it's very funny to hear foreigners talking about yak butter. There should be at least an acknowledgement in the article of the fact that the female is known as a dri. Anyway probably most of the butter used is not strictly from the yak species but from crosses between cows & yaks which are known as dzo mo. Bodhirakshita (talk) 01:37, 9 March 2015 (UTC)


 * Yes, Tibetans will laugh if someone says "Yak butter", it is like saying "bull butter", since in the Tibetan language yak refers only to the male of the species. Chris Fynn (talk) 14:01, 16 May 2023 (UTC)