Middle Persian

Noun

pnyl • ‎(panīr)

1. cheese

Descendants

• Persian: پنیر ‎(panir)
  • Tajik: 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 978-90-04-15496-4, page 279