keso

See also: Keso, kesò, kesō, and késő

Cebuano

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish queso.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: ke‧so
• IPA^(key): /ˈkeso/ [ˈki.s̪o]

Noun

keso

1. cheese

Hausa

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kéː.sòː/
  • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key): [céː.sòː]

Noun

kēsṑ m (plural kēsunā̀, possessed form kēsòn)

1. worn-out mat

Ilocano

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish queso (“cheese”).

Noun

keso

1. cheese

Old Spanish

Noun

keso m (plural kesos)

1. Alternative form of queso

Pali

Alternative forms

Alternative scripts

• 𑀓𑁂𑀲𑁄 (Brahmi script)
• केसो (Devanagari script)
• কেসো (Bengali script)
• කෙසො (Sinhalese script)
• ကေသော or ၵေသေႃ (Burmese script)
• เกโส (Thai script)
• ᨠᩮᩈᩮᩣ (Tai Tham script)
• ເກໂສ (Lao script)
• កេសោ (Khmer script)
• 𑄇𑄬𑄥𑄮 (Chakma script)

Noun

keso

1. nominative singular of kesa (“hair”)

Swedish

en öppnad burk keso [an opened container [can] of cottage cheese]

Etymology

From the dairy company Arla's cottage cheese product Keso, the name of which originates from Spanish queso (“cheese”). The word has since become a genericized trademark and is largely synonymous with cottage cheese.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkeːsʊ/
• Rhymes: -eːsʊ

Noun

keso c

1. cottage cheese

   Synonyms: (Finland) grynost, cottage cheese

Usage notes

Avoided in names of cottage cheese products from dairy companies other than Arla Foods for trademark reasons (usually replaced with "cottage cheese"), but very much a genericized trademark otherwise.

Declension

Declension of keso

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	keso	kesos
	definite	keson	kesons
plural	indefinite	—	—
	definite	—	—

See also

• kesella
• kvarg

References

• keso in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)

Anagrams

• ekos

Tagalog

Alternative forms

• cqiso — obsolete, Spanish-based orthography
• kiso — obsolete

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish queso (“cheese”), from Latin cāseus (“cheese”).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈkeso/ [ˈkɛː.so]
• Rhymes: -eso
• Syllabification: ke‧so

Noun

keso (Baybayin spelling ᜃᜒᜐᜓ)

1. cheese

Derived terms

• kesong puti
• kesuhan
• magkekeso
• magkeso
• malakeso
• pagkesohan

 

Related terms

• kesilyo
• keso de-bola
• keso de-plato

 

See also

• mantikilya
• margarina

 

Further reading

• “keso”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
• Serrano-Laktaw, Pedro (1914) Diccionario tagálog-hispano, Ateneo de Manila, page 492.
• San Buena Ventura, Fr. Pedro de (1613) Juan de Silva, editor, Vocabulario de lengua tagala: El romance castellano puesto primero‎^[1], La Noble Villa de Pila, page 507: “Queſo) Cqiſo (pp) C. de cabras obejas o bacas”

Anagrams

• seko

Waray-Waray

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish queso (“cheese”).

Noun

keso

1. cheese