kaçkavall
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)
- 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