পনীর

Bengali

Alternative forms

• পনির (ponir), পণির (ponir)

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian پنیر (panīr), from Middle Persian pnyl, which is ultimately from the Proto-Iranian verbal root *nayH- (“to churn butter”) with the preverb *pati-. The Iranian root is from Proto-Indo-Iranian *nayH- (“to churn butter”). Doublet of নবনী (noboni), meaning fresh butter. Cognate with Armenian պանիր (panir), Assamese পনীৰ (ponir), Turkmen peýnir, Turkish peynir, Hindi पनीर (panīr), Gujarati પનીર (panīr), Punjabi ਪਨੀਰ (panīr).

Pronunciation

• (Rarh) IPA^(key): /poniɾ/, [ˈponiɾ]

• (Dhaka) IPA^(key): /poniɹ/, [ˈponiɹ]

Noun

পনীর • (ponir)

1. cheese, paneer

References

• Accessible Dictionary, “পনির, পনীর” Bengali-English, Government of Bangladesh
• Accessible Dictionary, “পনির, পনীর” Bengali-Bengali, Government of Bangladesh