Albanian edit

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Turkish kaşkaval, from Ottoman Turkish قاشقوال (kaşkaval), from Italian caciocavallo (type of Sicilian cheese).[1]

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

kaçkavall m (plural kaçkavallë, definite kaçkavalli, definite plural kaçkavallët)

  1. a type of yellow, semi-hard cow's or sheep's cheese produced in the Balkans, kashkaval

References edit

  1. ^ Topalli, K. (2017) “kaçkavall”, in Fjalor Etimologjik i Gjuhës Shqipe, Durrës, Albania: Jozef, page 685