different between challah vs challan

English

Alternative forms

• challa, chalah, hallah, chaleh

Etymology

From Hebrew ??????? (?allá, “loaf”), influenced by Yiddish ???? (khale).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /????l?/, /???l?/

Noun

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

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

   • […] it is a time-honored custom that when women bake challah-loaves for Sabbath and Yom Tov use, they specifically prepare a dough large enough to be obligated in challah, so they can fulfill the mitzvah of separating challah […] .

2. (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.
3. (countable) The portion separated in fulfillment of the above.

Translations

Further reading

• separating challah on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Cookbook:challah on Wikibooks.Wikibooks

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Hindi ????? (c?l?n).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /t???l??n/, /?t??l?n/

Noun

challan (plural challans or challan)

1. (South Asia) An official form or other kind of document, piece of paperwork, citation etc.
   • 2010, Auditing, Dr Ashok Sharma, New Delhi 2010, p. 92:

     The stores department will issue a challan for each packing.

   • 2012, The Times of India, 3 Jan 2012:

     In past two years, Mohali police issued a paltry 17 challans to school bus operators for violations. Offences included speeding, rash driving and overloading.

Verb

challan (third-person singular simple present challans, present participle challaning, simple past and past participle challaned)

1. (South Asia) To issue an official infringement citation.

Anagrams

• Lachlan