Word.ws English Dictionary

kashkaval

kashkaval noun: a group of various traditional yellow cheeses from Turkey and the Balkans.

Noun

kashkaval (uncountable)

  1. A group of various traditional yellow cheeses from Turkey and the Balkans.
    • Serve plain, or with a tangy cheese such as kashkaval, kasseri or Manchego.2007 October 17, “Recipe: Nonno’s Olives”, in New York Times

kashkaval meaning in Arabic

kashkaval in Arabic

a group of various traditional yellow cheeses from Turkey and the Balkans
قَشْقَوَان qašqawān

Origin of kashkaval

From Ottoman Turkish قاشقوال (kaşkaval), from Sicilian cascavaḍḍu. Doublet of caciocavallo.

Questions about kashkaval

What does kashkaval mean?
Kashkaval means a group of various traditional yellow cheeses from Turkey and the Balkans.
What is kashkaval in Arabic?
Kashkaval in Arabic is قَشْقَوَان (qašqawān). See Kashkaval meaning in Arabic.
What part of speech is kashkaval?
Kashkaval is a noun.

Words near kashkaval in the dictionary

  1. Kashiwagis
  2. Kashiwara
  3. Kashiwazaki
  4. kashk
  5. Kashkai
  6. kashkaval
  7. Kashmeer
  8. Kashmir
  9. Kashmir bee hawkmoth
  10. Kashmir cypress
  11. Kashmir cypresses

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: kashkaval (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “kashkaval.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/kashkaval. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.