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What is “cheese” called in your language? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 19 hours ago by wendyz@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
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For me, it’s “queso”. 🧀

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[–] ElCrusher@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 hour ago

Queso

[–] RandomVideos@programming.dev 1 points 1 hour ago

Brânză

[–] sjmulder@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 3 hours ago

Kéés (Texels Dutch, my wife’s home dialect)

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 hours ago

Das ist Käse.

Btw: This saying is used in case something is stupid :)

[–] noolu@lemmy.world 4 points 4 hours ago

formaggio 🤌

[–] phantomwise@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Fromage!

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

omelette.

[–] cute_noker@feddit.dk 2 points 4 hours ago

Ost

[–] murtaza64@programming.dev 1 points 4 hours ago

چیز

[–] jaiden@lemmy.today 4 points 6 hours ago

cheese, queso, or queijo

[–] tpyoman@lemmy.world 3 points 8 hours ago

Paneer

[–] s0larfl4re@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

сыр!

[–] rumimevlevi@lemmings.world 3 points 8 hours ago

Jbin or jboun depending of the region in tunisia

[–] fluxion@lemmy.world 4 points 9 hours ago

We call it the same thing as butter. Shit gets confusing sometimes

[–] gorkur@lemmy.world 5 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

Ostur

[–] olafurp@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

🇮🇸

[–] Blodruselur@lemm.ee 2 points 3 hours ago

🇮🇸

[–] 0xeb@lemmy.world 3 points 9 hours ago

Peynir 🧀

[–] aguasemgas 5 points 11 hours ago

Queijo (PT-BR)

[–] doctortofu@reddthat.com 8 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Ser (in Polish.Pronounced similarly to "sir" in"yes sir")

[–] jaiden@lemmy.today 1 points 6 hours ago

happy cake day!

[–] notso@feddit.org 14 points 15 hours ago

Käse (Germany)

[–] LordWiggle@lemmy.world 13 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (1 children)

Kaas.

Fun fact: New York was founded by the Dutch. A curse word for a Dutch guy was "Jan Kaas", which changed over the years to "Yankees".

[–] frightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.ml 5 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Fun fact: folk etymologies are always lies.

I've also heard that 'gringo' derives from people telling green-clad soldiers to go away (green, go)

I've heard that 'fuck' is an acronym for 'fornication under consent of the king'

All nonsense of course.

[–] LordWiggle@lemmy.world 6 points 12 hours ago

Not all etymologies are lies, words do have origins.

Just because you heard some stories which were false doesn't mean all stories are false.

On this wiki page it is explained that linguistics do believe the word Yankee comes from Jan Kees or Jan Kaas. It explains it can also come from the name Janneke, which is a new to me.

[–] Shotgun_Alice@lemmy.world 3 points 11 hours ago

Spent time in Hungary they call cheese sajt.

[–] PartyPatella@lemmy.ml 29 points 19 hours ago (5 children)

Ost!

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[–] zeppo@lemmy.world 32 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

Cheese

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[–] Thrife@feddit.org 27 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Käse

[–] dubyakay@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 hours ago

Is this Swiss or Austrian?

[–] githard@lemmy.cat 3 points 12 hours ago

"formatge" here!

[–] gezginorman@lemmy.ml 6 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

peynir

[–] reaper_cushions@hexbear.net 5 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

There’s bound to be a bunch of variations of panir, paneer, peynir etc. around. All of us central Asians call it something like that.

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