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▪ While Nişanyan thinks the haloomi cheese is so called because of its softness, the fact that there exist different spellings (esp. the common variant with long ā in the first syllable) points to a foreign origin.
▪ Accord. to Lane, TA regards the word (which is already listed by Ibn Sīda and Fīrūzābādī) as taken from the EgAr dialect.
▪ Youssef2003: from Copt ḥalōm ‘cheese’.

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▪ Engl halloumi, from Grk χαλλούμι χalloúmi, either directly from Copt ḥalōm, from Eg…, or via Ar ḥalūm (< Copt < Eg).
▪ Tu hellim [ Evliyā Çelebī, Seyāḥatnāme, 1680] eṣnāf-ı cibn-i ḥālūmiyān yaʕnī peynirciyān

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