Spent time in Hungary they call cheese sajt.
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peynir
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.
Where in Central Asia is that, if it's ok to ask? Where I am, there's irimshik for soft cheese and qurt for dried.
Oh, in my case it would’ve the Dari/Tajik speaking part. It’s the same in Urdu and Hindi, so I just surmised that it’s really common.
Gazta (in Basque)
In NZ English... "Cheese". Though we do have a term "tasty" for a 12-18 month aged cheddar cheese that I don't think is commonly used elsewhere. At the supermarket you're likely to see "mild" or "tasty" not "cheddar".
In Māori, "tīhi". It's a transliteration of "cheese" into a language that has neither a "ch" nor a "s" sound.
So it's labelled "tasty cheese"?
That suggests that you can only buy cheddar there. No other types of cheese.
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"formatge" here!
芝士 (it's pronounced similar to cheese in English)
In Mandarin: zhishi
In Cantonese: zisi
My language is already taken so here's another language where I know the word: 奶酪 (nailao), first character meaning milk, second one I had to look up for the definition: "semi-solid food made from milk"
Sir
I shall start calling mine Sir Cheese.
チーズ
Kaas
Fwomaj
Caws.
Syr
hello wildcats
You know
Seemingly a cooking show with industrial shit and a microwave, I don't. It must be british, is it not?
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brânză
Keju
queijo
Bob. We call him Bob
fromage
Hours upon hours of pain and farts
You know they make lactase pills and it's like ten cents for all the dairy you can stomach right