پنیر مایهسی
Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
Compound of پنیر (penir, “cheese”) + مایه (maya, “yeast, leaven”).
Noun
پنیر مایهسی • (penir mayası)
- rennet, an enzyme used as the first step in making cheese
Descendants
- Turkish: peynir mayası
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “peynir mayası”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3841
- Redhouse, James W. (1890), “پنیر مایهسی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 455