Editing Paneer (section)

==Etymology==
The word ''paneer'' entered English from the [[Hindi-Urdu]] term ''panīr'', which comes from [[Persian language|Persian]] {{Transliteration|fa|panir}} ({{Wikt-lang|fa|پنیر}}) 'cheese', which comes from Old Iranian.<ref>{{cite web |publisher=HarperCollins Publishers |access-date=19 August 2024 |title=Entry: paneer |url=https://www.ahdictionary.com/word/search.html?q=paneer |website=The American Heritage Dictionary}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |author=Nundolal Dey  |title=Rasātala or the Under-world |journal=The Indian Historical Quarterly |volume=2 |issue=1–2 |year=1985 |publisher=Ramanand Vidya Bhawan |pages=236–237 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oTMKAQAAIAAJ |quote=Panir is a Persian word, though derived from the common Sanskrit words ''Pai'' (Payas = milk) and ''Nir'' (nīra = water) meaning milk without water.}}</ref> [[Armenian language|Armenian]] {{Transliteration|hy|panir}} ({{lang|hy|պանիր}}), [[Azerbaijani language|Azerbaijani]] {{lang|az|pəndir}}, [[Bengali language|Bengali]] ''ponir'' (পনির), [[Turkish language|Turkish]] {{lang|tr|peynir}} and [[Turkmen language|Turkmen]] {{Transliteration|tk|peýnir}}, all derived from Persian {{Transliteration|fa|panir}}, also refer to cheese of any type.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Davidson |first1=Alan |editor-last1=Jaine |editor-first1=Tom |title=The Oxford Companion to Food |date=2006 |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=Oxford |isbn=978-0191018251 |edition=2nd |quote=panir and peynir, the Persian and Turkish words for 'cheese' (...)}}</ref>