Where did the word "paneer" come from?
So it's "paneer" (cheese) in Hindi. But I found out a while ago that in Armenian, it's "baneer", and I just found on Wikipedia that a group of other languages (Turkish, Urdu, Persian, Kurdish...) also have extremely similar names for cheese.
I know it might be impossible to say exactly where it came from, but any ideas? I'm so interested, because it spans a bunch of different languages! I know that there words used in Hindi that are actually based in Urdu, but I don't know much about the connections/relationships between the other languages. This is the Wiki page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paneer