pnyl
Middle Persian
Etymology
Ultimately from the Proto-Iranian verbal base *nai- : *ni- (“to churn butter”) with the preverb *pati-. For this root see Cheung, who reconstructs *naiH-.
Compare Baluchi پنیر (panēr), Sarikoli [script needed] (paner), Central Kurdish پەنێر (penêr), Southern Kurdish پەنێر (penêr), Northern Kurdish penîr, Pashto پنير (panír) and the Old Armenian loanword պանիր (panir).
Noun
pnyl • (panīr)
- (Book Pahlavi) cheese
Descendants
- Persian: پنیر (panir)
- Mazanderani: پنیر (pannir)
- Tajik: панир (panir)
- Kurdish: penêr
- Zazaki: penîr
- Yagnobi: панир (panir)
- → Wakhi: pənir
- → Azeri: pendir, peynir
- → Bengali: পনির (panir)
- → Hindustani:
- Hindi: पनीर (panīr)
- Urdu: پنیر (panīr)
- → English: paneer
- → Ottoman Turkish: پنیر (penîr), پینیر (peynîr)
- Turkish: peynir, (dialectal) pendir
- → Zazaki: pendîr, peynir
- → Punjabi: ਪਨੀਰ (panīr)
- → Romani: pendír
- → Turkmen: peýnir
References
- MacKenzie, D. N. (1971), “panīr”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press
- Horn, Paul (1893) Grundriss der neupersischen Etymologie (in German), Strasbourg: K.J. Trübner, § 183, page 289
- Hübschmann, Heinrich (1897) Armenische Grammatik. 1. Theil: Armenische Etymologie (in German), Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, page 221
- Bailey, H. W. (1979) Dictionary of Khotan Saka, Cambridge, London, New York, Melbourne: Cambridge University press, page 184b
- Cheung, Johnny (2007) Etymological Dictionary of the Iranian Verb (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 2), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 279