ghee

noun

ˈgē 

variants or ghi

: a semifluid clarified butter made especially in India

Examples of ghee in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The temple also holds an annual elephant race and a feeding ritual where, following prayers, the animals are given rice, ghee, jaggery, fruits and vegetables. — ABC News, 3 July 2026

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

Word History

Etymology

Hindi & Urdu ghī, from Sanskrit ghṛta

First Known Use

1665, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for ghee

• be
• bee
• bree
• cree
• fee
• flea
• flee
• free
• gee
• glee
• he
• ki