kaçkavall
Albanian
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Turkish kaşkaval, from Ottoman Turkish قاشقوال (kaşkaval), from Italian caciocavallo (“type of Sicilian cheese”).[1]
Pronunciation
editNoun
editkaçkavall m (plural kaçkavallë, definite kaçkavalli, definite plural kaçkavallët)
- a type of yellow, semi-hard cow's or sheep's cheese produced in the Balkans, kashkaval
References
edit- ^ Topalli, K. (2017) “kaçkavall”, in Fjalor Etimologjik i Gjuhës Shqipe, Durrës, Albania: Jozef, page 685