پنیر مایه‌سی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From پنیر (penir, “cheese”) + مایه (maya, “yeast, leaven”).

Noun

پنیر مایه‌سی • (penir mayası)

1. rennet, an enzyme used as the first step in making cheese

Descendants

• Turkish: peynir mayası

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “peynir mayası”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3841
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “پنیر مایه‌سی”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 128a
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “پنیر مایه‌سی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 455