Editing Halloumi (section)

==Etymology==
The English name ''halloumi'' is derived from Modern {{langx|el|χαλλούμι}} {{IPA|el|xaˈlumi|}}, {{translit|el|khalloúmi}}, from [[Cypriot Maronite Arabic]] {{lang|acy|xallúm}},<ref name="AHD">{{cite web |title=The American Heritage Dictionary entry: halloumi |url=https://ahdictionary.com/word/search.html?q=halloumi |access-date=2018-10-25 |website=ahdictionary.com}}</ref><ref name="Borg 2004">{{cite book|first1=Alexander|last1=Borg|title=A Comparative Glossary of Cypriot Maronite Arabic (Arabic-English): With an Introductory Essay|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YfENAAAAYAAJ&q=xallum|publisher=Brill|date=2004|pages=11,209–210|isbn=978-90-04-13198-9|via=Google Books}}</ref> ultimately from Egyptian {{langx|ar|حلوم}} {{transliteration|ar|ḥallūm}} {{IPA|ar|ħalˈluːm|}}.<ref name="AHD"/><ref name="Borg 2004"/><ref name="OED2">{{cite OED2|halloumi}}</ref>

The Egyptian Arabic word is itself a [[loanword]] from [[Coptic language|Coptic]] {{Script/Coptic|{{lang|cop|ϩⲁⲗⲱⲙ}}}} {{transliteration|cop|halōm}} ([[Sahidic]]) and {{Script/Coptic|{{lang|cop|ⲁⲗⲱⲙ}}}} {{transliteration|cop|alōm}} ([[Bohairic]]), and was used for cheese eaten in [[medieval Egypt]].<ref>Andriotis et al., Λεξικό της κοινής νεοελληνικής</ref><ref name="Otter 2016">{{cite book|first=Don |last=Otter |editor-first1=Catherine |editor-last1=Donnelly |editor-first2=Mateo | editor-last2=Kehler |title=The Oxford Companion to Cheese|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fRnGDQAAQBAJ&pg=PA255|publisher=[[Oxford University Press]]|date=25 October 2016|isbn=978-0-19-933089-8|via=Google Books}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|first1=Alan|last1=Davidson|title=The Oxford Companion to Food|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bIIeBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA378|publisher=[[Oxford University Press]]|date=21 August 2014|isbn=978-0-19-104072-6|via=Google Books}}</ref> The name of the cheese likely goes back to the [[Demotic (Egyptian)|Demotic]] word ''ḥlm'' {{gloss|cheese}} attested in manuscripts and [[Ostracon|ostraca]] from 2nd-century [[Egypt (Roman province)|Roman Egypt]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Chicago Demotic Dictionary - Ḥ|url=https://oi.uchicago.edu/sites/oi.uchicago.edu/files/uploads/shared/docs/CDD_H2.pdf#246|last=Johnson|first=Janet|page=246}}</ref>

The [[Cypriot Turkish]] name {{lang|tr|hellim}} derives from this source, as does the name of the different modern Egyptian cheese {{transliteration|ar|hâlûmi}}.<ref name="Otter 2016" />