پنیر

See also: تنير and پنير

Baluchi

Etymology

From Persian پنیر (paner).

Noun

پنیر • (paner)

1. cheese

Khalaj

Noun

پَنیر (pənîr) (definite accusative پَنیری, plural پَنیرلَر)

1. Arabic spelling of pənîr (“cheese”)

Declension

Declension of پنیر

	singular	plural
nominative	پنیر	پنیرلَر
genitive	پنیرۆݧ	پنیرلَریݧ
dative	پنیرکه	پنیرلَرکه
definite accusative	پنیرۆ	پنیرلَری
locative	پنیرچه	پنیرلَرچه
ablative	پنیرده	پنیرلَرده
instrumental	پنیرله	پنیرلَرله
equative	پنیروارا	پنیرلَروارا

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

• ایپلك پنیری (iplik peniri, “kind of cheese marked with threads”)
• 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”)
• پنیرجی (penirci, “cheesemaker, cheesemonger”)
• چایر پنیری (çayır peniri, “fresh cheese”)

Descendants

• Turkish: peynir
• → Armenian: փանիր (pʻanir) (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
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “پنیر”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 128a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “پنیر”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], 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^[3], 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^[4], Vienna, column 906
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “peynir”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “پنیر”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 455

Persian

پنیر

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [pa.ˈniːɾ]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [pʰä.níːɾ]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [pʰä.níːɾ]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [pʰä.níːɾ]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [pʰä.níɾ]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [pʰæ.níːɹ]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [pʰä.níɾ]

Readings
Classical reading?	panīr
Dari reading?	panīr
Iranian reading?	panir
Tajik reading?	panir

Noun

Dari	پنیر
Iranian Persian
Tajik	панир

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

1. cheese

Derived terms

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

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:

  Hindi: पनीर (panīr)

  Urdu: پنیر (panīr)

  • → English: paneer
• → Khalaj: pənîr
• → Malay: panir, ڤانير
• → Malayalam: പനീര് (panīṟ)
• → Nepali: पनीर (panīra)
  • → 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 script: ਪਨੀਰ (panīr)
  • Shahmukhi script: پنیر (panīr)
• → Sindhi: پنير
• → Turkmen: peýnir

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian پَنِیر (panīr).

Pronunciation

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

Noun

پَنِیر • (panīr) m (Hindi spelling पनीर)

1. paneer
2. cheese

References

• “پنیر”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “پنیر”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.