Penir-Pendir:Peynir

Middle Persian

Ultimately from the Proto-Iranian verbal base *nai- : *ni- (“to churn butter”) with the preverb *pati-. For this root see Cheung, who reconstructs *naiH-.

Compare Baluchi پنیر‎ (panēr), Sarikoli [script needed] (paner), Central Kurdish پەنێر‎ (penêr), Southern Kurdish پەنێر‎ (penêr), Northern Kurdish penîr, Pashto پنير‎ (panír) and the Old Armenian loanword պանիր (panir).

Noun
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pnyl • (panīr)

(Book Pahlavi) cheese
Descendants
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Persian: پنیر‎ (panir)
Mazanderani: پنیر‎ (pannir)
Tajik: панир (panir)
Kurdish: penêr
Zazaki: penîr
Yagnobi: 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

→ Punjabi: ਪਨੀਰ (panīr)
→ Romani: pendír
→ Turkmen: peýnir