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Fromage!
formaggio 🤌
Ost
cheese, queso, or queijo
Paneer
Jbin or jboun depending of the region in tunisia
Peynir 🧀
We call it the same thing as butter. Shit gets confusing sometimes
Ostur
Queijo (PT-BR)
Spent time in Hungary they call cheese sajt.
"formatge" here!
Ser (in Polish.Pronounced similarly to "sir" in"yes sir")
In NZ English... "Cheese". Though we do have a term "tasty" for a 12-18 month aged cheddar cheese that I don't think is commonly used elsewhere. At the supermarket you're likely to see "mild" or "tasty" not "cheddar".
In Māori, "tīhi". It's a transliteration of "cheese" into a language that has neither a "ch" nor a "s" sound.
So it's labelled "tasty cheese"?
That suggests that you can only buy cheddar there. No other types of cheese.
Other types of cheese are available, it's just that cheddar is not clearly labeled as such since it's kind of the "default".
E.g.
That packaging would make me question if it's actually legally cheese. It's like it's avoiding saying the word.
Caws.
peynir
There’s bound to be a bunch of variations of panir, paneer, peynir etc. around. All of us central Asians call it something like that.
Where in Central Asia is that, if it's ok to ask? Where I am, there's irimshik for soft cheese and qurt for dried.
Oh, in my case it would’ve the Dari/Tajik speaking part. It’s the same in Urdu and Hindi, so I just surmised that it’s really common.
Juusto
Finnish? I had something called leipa juusto in Finland and it was a very interesting experience
Yes. Leipäjuusto (literally bread cheese) is like the only uniquely Finnish type of cheese that I can think of. Very mild and very squeaky
Also, to any anglophones reading, the j is pronounced like y, so it'd sound like "yuusto" to your ears
チーズ
Käse (Germany)
Kaas.
Fun fact: New York was founded by the Dutch. A curse word for a Dutch guy was "Jan Kaas", which changed over the years to "Yankees".
Fun fact: folk etymologies are always lies.
I've also heard that 'gringo' derives from people telling green-clad soldiers to go away (green, go)
I've heard that 'fuck' is an acronym for 'fornication under consent of the king'
All nonsense of course.
Not all etymologies are lies, words do have origins.
Just because you heard some stories which were false doesn't mean all stories are false.
On this wiki page it is explained that linguistics do believe the word Yankee comes from Jan Kees or Jan Kaas. It explains it can also come from the name Janneke, which is a new to me.
Sajt
Bojler eladó
Fodrász vagyok
Kaas
Sir
I shall start calling mine Sir Cheese.
芝士 (it's pronounced similar to cheese in English)
In Mandarin: zhishi
In Cantonese: zisi
brânză
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