Home › Words › L › labnehlabneh/ˈlæb.neɪ/labneh means yogurt that has been strained to filter or remove the whey and thus has a consistency between that of yogurt and cheese.labneh is pronounced /ˈlæb.neɪ/.EtymologyFrom South Levantine Arabic لَبْنَة (labne).nounYogurt that has been strained to filter or remove the whey and thus has a consistency between that of yogurt and cheese.e.g.“And I can assure you, were he to encounter the entire crew of the aircraft carrier Enterprise, he’d serve them eggs sunny-side up, and labneh fresh from the bag.” — 2009 May 6, Dwight Garner, “A Merchant of Trinkets and Memories”, in New York Times:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).