halva

• halavah, halvah, halwa, halwah, halava, halawa, halaweh, hulwa

From Hebrew חלווה (khálva), from Romanian halva, from Ottoman Turkish حلوا (helva), from Persian حلوا (halvâ), from Arabic حَلْوَى (ḥalwā).^[1]

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /hɑːlˈvɑː/, /ˈhɑːlvɑː/

halva (countable and uncountable, plural halvas)

2. A confection usually made from crushed sesame seeds and honey. It is a traditional dessert in South Asia, the Mediterranean and the Middle East.
   • 2016 January 26, Eyal Press, “When ‘Made In Israel’ Is a Human Rights Abuse”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     Just before Christmas, Ron Dermer, Israel’s ambassador to the United States, sent the White House a box of holiday gifts with a pointed political message. Inside were items (body lotion, halvah, olive oil) produced in Jewish settlements in the West Bank.

• sohan halva

• halva on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

From Arabic حَلْوَى (ḥalwā).

halva (definite accusative halvanı, plural halvalar)

1. halva

• “halva” in Obastan.com.

From Hebrew חלבה (halvá), from Romanian halva, from Ottoman Turkish حلوا (helva), from Persian حلوا (halvâ), from Arabic حَلْوَى (ḥalwā).

• Hyphenation: hal‧va

halva f or m (plural halva's, diminutive halvaatje n)

1. halva

halva

1. genitive singular of halb

From Russian халва (xalva).

• IPA^(key): /ˈhɑlʋɑ/, [ˈhɑ̝lʋɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -ɑlʋɑ
• Hyphenation^(key): hal‧va

halva

1. halva

• “halva”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[2] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02

• ^{(aspirated h)} IPA^(key): /al.va/

halva m (plural halvas)

1. halva

• “halva”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

hal (“to die”) +‎ -va (adverbial-participle suffix)

• IPA^(key): [ˈhɒlvɒ]

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• Hyphenation: hal‧va
• Rhymes: -vɒ

halva

1. adverbial participle of hal (“to die”)

halva

1. dead

   élve vagy halva ― dead or alive

   halva született ― stillborn

• (dead): halva in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
• (halva [a confection usually made from crushed sesame seeds and honey]): halva in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

From Proto-Finnic *halpa. Cognates include Finnish halpa (“cheap”) and Estonian halb (“bad”).

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈhɑlʋɑ/, [ˈhɑɫʋ]
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈhɑlʋɑ/, [ˈhɑɫʋɑ]
• Rhymes: -ɑlʋ, -ɑlʋɑ
• Hyphenation: hal‧va

halva (comparative halvemp)

1. cheap
2. bad

• Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 43

halva f

1. halva

• halven

halva m or f

1. definite feminine singular of halve

halva f (definite singular halva, indefinite plural halver or halvor, definite plural halvene or halvone)

1. (pre-2012) alternative form of halve
2. definite singular of halve

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish حلوا (helva), from Arabic حَلْوَى (ḥalwā).

• IPA^(key): /halˈva/

halva f (plural halvale)

1. halva

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish حلوا (helva) (Turkish helva), from Arabic حَلْوَى (ḥalwā).

halva f (Cyrillic spelling халва)

1. halva

   Synonym: tahan halva

halva c

1. halva

halva c

1. a half

   Jag gav barnen varsin halva av äpplet.

   I gave the kids one half of the apple each.

2. (colloquial) the second snaps drunk in a series

• ägghalva

• halv
• halvera

• hälft

• halva in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• halva in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)