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kaçkavall

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Albanian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Turkish kaşkaval, from Ottoman Turkish قاشقوال (kaşkaval), from Italian caciocavallo (“type of Sicilian cheese”).[1]

Pronunciation

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Noun

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kaçkavall m (plural kaçkavallë, definite kaçkavalli, definite plural kaçkavallët)

  1. a type of yellow, semi-hard cow's or sheep's cheese produced in the Balkans, kashkaval

References

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  1. ^ Topalli, Kolec (2017) “kaçkavall”, in Fjalor Etimologjik i Gjuhës Shqipe [Etymological Dictionary of the Albanian Language] (in Albanian), Durrës, Albania: Jozef, page 685
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