# پنیر
## Baluchi
### Etymology

From Persian پنیر (paner).

### Noun

پنیر • (paner)
* cheese

## Khalaj
### Noun

پَنیر (pənîr) (definite accusative پَنیری, plural پَنیرلَر)
* Arabic spelling of pənîr (“cheese”)

#### Declension
## Ottoman Turkish
### Alternative forms

* پینیر (peynir)

### Etymology

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

### Noun

پنیر • (penir)
* 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, Vienna: F. Beck, page 128a
* 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

## Persian
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Persian) IPA: [pa.ˈniːɾ]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [pʰä.níːɾ]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [pʰä.níːɾ]
** (Kabuli) IPA: [pʰä.níːɾ]
** (Hazaragi) IPA: [pʰä.níɾ]
* (Iran, formal) IPA: [pʰæ.níːɹ]
* (Tajik, formal) IPA: [pʰä.níɾ]

### Noun

| Dari | پنیر |
| Iranian Persian | پنیر |
| Tajik | панир |
پنیر • (panir) (plural پنیرها (panir-hâ))
* 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: /pə.niːɾ/
* Rhymes: -iːɾ

### Noun

پَنِیر • (panīr) m (Hindi spelling पनीर)
* paneer
* 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.