CHALLAH

challah, hallah

(noun) (Judaism) a loaf of white bread containing eggs and leavened with yeast; often formed into braided loaves and glazed with eggs before baking

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

challah (countable and uncountable, plural challahs or challos or challot or challoth)

(countable) A traditional bread eaten by Ashkenazi Jews, usually braided for the Sabbath and round for Yom Tov.

(uncountable) The commandment to separate a portion of bread or bread dough for the cohanim (Numbers 15:17–21); in contemporary practice, the portion is burned until inedible.

(countable) The portion separated in fulfillment of the above.

Source: Wiktionary



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