Kashk (Persian: کشک‎, Arabic: كشك‎, Kurdish: keşk‎, Turkish: keş peyniri), qurut (Kazakh: құрт, Turkmen: gurt, Uzbek: qurt, Azerbaijani: qurut, Bashkir: ҡорот, Kyrgyz: курут, Pashto: قروت‎, Turkish: kurut, sürk, taş yoğurt, kurutulmuş yoğurt, Shor: қурут), chortan (Armenian: չորթան, [chor, meaning "dried", plus tan]), aaruul (Mongolian: ааруул) is a range of dairy products used in cuisines of Iranian, Kurdish, Turkish, Mongolian, Central Asian, Transcaucasian, and the Levantine peoples. Kashk is made from drained yogurt (in particular, drained qatiq) or drained sour milk by forming it and letting it dry. It can be made in a variety of forms, including rolled into balls, sliced into strips, and formed into chunks.