kaçkavall

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Albanian[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

Etymology[edit]

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

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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
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