Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A loaf of yeast-leavened egg bread, usually braided, traditionally eaten by Jews on the Sabbath, holidays, and other ceremonial occasions.
Wiktionary
WordNet 3.0
- n. (Judaism) a loaf of white bread containing eggs and leavened with yeast; often formed into braided loaves and glazed with eggs before baking
Etymologies
- From Yiddish חלה, from Hebrew חַלָּה. (Wiktionary)
- Hebrew ḥallâ; see ḫll in Semitic roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Today the word challah is used to refer to the whole loaf.”
The Huffington Post: Pamela Dodson: Holiday Breads: an Old Tradition
“Note: Separating the challah is a special mitzvah for women done when the bread dough quantity is above a certain amount, as in the above recipe.”
“The word challah—pronounced with a soft h as in ha-la—means dough and refers specifically to the bread remaining after the small piece was separated from it.”
“I love challah and the idea of sweet vanilla challah is making my mouth water.”
BBD #10: Breakfast Breads: Beth Hensperger’s Sweet Vanilla Challah
“I brought a raisin challah and a dozen cinnamon rolls that I'd baked that morning.”
“Myra retrieved a loaf of Ginny's challah from the freezer in the storage room and defrosted it quickly in the microwave.”
“You are blessed, Lord our G*d, Sovereign of the world, Who made us holy with Her commandments and commanded us to separate challah from the dough.”
“Everyone sang a hymn of thanks to God while touching the braided bread known as challah, tapping each other on the arm or shoulder before feasting on the bread and traditional three-corner Hamantaschen cookies.”
“Instead I made a pretty terrific baked challah bread pudding (made with homemade challah, my challah was a little dry but beautiful, but hey, it was my first time baking bread!).”
“The producers are so nervous about guarding their new secrets, they've given the very last scene a code name -- "challah," as in the Jewish bread that's full of twists.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘challah’.
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food collection
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how to cook
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Bread-related Words
Words related to bread and bread-making
barm, ferment, knead, couche, proof, gluten, rustic, brioche, semolina, durum, rye, yeast and 21 more...
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HH
Very familiar names, compound words and phrases containing HH or H H
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Wonderful bread
baguette, bialy, pumpernickel, boule, brioche, challah, chapati, cornbread, dosa, mantou, flatbread, focaccia and 102 more...
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A Crumb Of Comfort
Types of bread & breadmaking terms. Mainly I'm looking for plain or savoury breads but I'll accept the sweet-ish ones as long as they are more bread than cake :-)
lagana, khobz, pita, foccaccia, ciabatta, bap, altamura, knead, leaven, crumpet, muffin, bagel and 202 more...
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Words Covered in Faery Dust (C)
words that evoke magic, mystery, mayhem, magnificence or anything else that glimmers in the grass
cacophony, cad, cajole, calamity, camomile, camphor, candlemas, candy apple, canopy, canticle, caparison, caravan and 304 more...
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Two years
Okay, I admit it. I made a list of words my daughter knew when she was two years old.
bat, baba, a, abalone, about, acorn, adrienne, after, again, airplane, alison, all and 694 more...
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Sweet Smoke of Rhetoric
The ones with which I flavor my speech, and the ones I love to find peppered in literature.
perspicacious, acerbic, vituperation, loquacious, castigate, vitriolic, scintillating, provenance, frolic, attendant, pursuant, epistemology and 313 more...
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food
food, chef, spice, salt, sugar, pumpkin, apples, fruit, vegetable, savory, soup, sauce and 280 more...
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Portnoy's Complaint
Words gathered while reading Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth.
bonditt, goy, kishkas, goyische, shkotzim, if-onlying, pishachs, schvartze, milchiks, flaishedigeh, galvanic, chazerai and 123 more...
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Food for Thought
A breaded foray of words
lady, appanage, companion, penuche, pastille, pantry, panicle, panocha, pannier, panatela, panada, panada and 87 more...
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The Inside Jokes
I and a select group of friends find these funny. Quite often it is a different friend each time.
octogenarian, schools of thought, yurt, zmay, jumbuck, stout old ladies, domkop, axolotl, citoyen, pertain, startling, enthralling and 52 more...
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Comestibles and Libations
Food and drink words
rumfustian, grout-ale, weizenbock, zymurgy, wort, multum, coq au vin, mead, schooner, lager, malt liquor, bock beer and 47 more...
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Man Cannot Live on Bread Alone
Types of bread products
pumpernickel, sourdough, rye, oatmeal, cornbread, multigrain, challah, naan, pita, tortilla, croissant, anadama and 67 more...
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Edible
sashimi, tiramisu, quenepa, lychee, dulce de leche, flan, buffalo wings, sorbet, pasteles, sherbet, turducken, mochi and 79 more...
Tweets
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JackCohen According to Jewish tradition, challah commemorates the mannah upon which the Hebrews existed during their journey through the desert. As mannah did not fall on Shabbat, a double portion fell on Friday - this being the origin of the two loaves that form the centrepiece of the Shabbat meal eaten on a Friday evening.
It's also known as khale in Eastern Yiddish and as chałka in Polish. Dec 28, 2010
milosrdenstvi Braiding these is fun. Oct 11, 2009