halva
/ˈhalvə
/ /ˈhalvɑː/(also halvah)
noun [mass noun]
A Middle Eastern sweet made of sesame flour and honey.The results run from simple brittle and toffee type sweets through halva, barfi, and sandesh, to the family of confections based on rasgullas....
- A favorite Palestinian candy is halvah, a sweet nougat made of sesame seeds and honey.
- Finally, ‘sweetmeats’ like halva and burfi can often round off a festive meal.
Origin
Yiddish, or from Turkish helva, from Arabic and Persian ḥalwā 'sweetmeat'.
Rhymes
- watchman
- watchnight
- watch one's mouth
- watch one's (or someone's) back
- watch one's step
- watch someone like a hawk
- watch spring
- watch the clock
- watch the pennies
- watch the time
- watch the world go by
- watch this space
- watchtower
- watchword
- water
- water adder
- water agrimony
- water aloe
- water antelope
- water apple
- water archer
- water arum
- water ash
- water-ask
- water-attracting