پنیر

پنیر

See also: تنير‎ and پنير‎

Baluchi

Etymology

From Persian پنیر‎ (paner).

Noun

پنیر • (paner)

1. cheese

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Ottoman Turkish

پنیر

Alternative forms

• پینیر‎ (peynir)

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian پنیر‎ (panir, “cheese”).

Noun

پنیر • (penir)

1. cheese, a dairy product made from curdled milk

   Synonym: جبن‎ (cübn)

Derived terms

• تازه پنیر‎ (taze penir, “fresh cheese”)
• طولوم پنیری‎ (tulum peniri, “cheese in sheepskin bags”)
• قاشر پنیری‎ (kaşer peniri, “kind of cheese”)
• كره پنیری‎ (kere peniri, “cream cheese”)
• كله پنیری‎ (kalle peniri, “any cheese pressed in cakes”)
• لور پنیری‎ (lor peniri, “cottage cheese”)
• پنیر دیشی‎ (penir dişi, “the last tooth remaining to an old person”)
• پنیر شكری‎ (penir şekeri, “softish white sweetmeat”)
• پنیر مایه‌سی‎ (penir mayası, “rennet”)
• چایر پنیری‎ (çayır peniri, “fresh cheese”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: peynir
• → Armenian: փանիր (pʿanir) (partly)
• → Romani: pendír
• → Zazaki: pendîr, peynir

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “peynir”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3841
• Kélékian, Diran (1911), “پنیر”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 325
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687), “Caseus”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum, Vienna, column 157
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “پنیر”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 906
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “peynir”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890), “پنیر”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 455

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Persian

پنیر

Etymology

From Middle Persian pnyl (panīr); see there for further information.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): /paˈniːɾ/

• (Dari Persian) IPA^(key): /paˈniːɾ/

• (Iranian Persian) IPA^(key): /pæˈniːɾ/

• (Tajik) IPA^(key): /paˈniɾ/

Noun

Dari	پنیر
Iranian Persian
Tajik	панир (panir)

پنیر • (panir) (plural پنیرها‎ (panir-hâ))

1. cheese

Derived terms

• پنیرفروش‎ (panirforuš, “cheesemonger”)
• پنیرمایه‎ (panirmâye, “rennet”)
• پنیر نخل‎ (panir-e naxl, “heart of palm”)

 

Descendants

(also see the descendants mentioned in Middle Persian.)

• → Assamese: পনিৰ (ponir)
• → Azerbaijani: pendir, peynir
• → Baluchi: پنیر‎ (paner)
• → Bengali: পনীর (pônīr)
• → Gujarati: પનીર (panīr)
• → Hindustani: panīr

  Hindi: पनीर

  Urdu: پنیر‎

  • → English: paneer
• → Malay: panir, ڤانير‎‎
• → Malayalam: പനീർ (panīṟ)
• → Nepali: पनीर (panīr)
  • → Dzongkha: པ་ནིར (pa nir)
• → Ottoman Turkish: پنیر‎ (penîr), پینیر‎ (peynîr)
  • Turkish: peynir, (dialectal) pendir
  • → Romani: pendír
  • → Zazaki: pendîr, peynir
• → Pashto: پنیر‎ (panir)
  • → Wakhi: pənir
• → Punjabi:
  • Gurmukhi: ਪਨੀਰ (panīr)
  • Shahmukhi: پنیر‎ (panīr)
• → Sindhi: پنير‎
• → Turkmen: peýnir

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Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian پنیر‎ (panir).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /pə.niːɾ/

Noun

پنیر • (panīr) m (Hindi spelling पनीर)

1. cheese

References

• “پنیر”, in اُردُو لُغَت (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “پنیر”, in Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2023.