different between halwa vs halva

English

Noun

halwa (countable and uncountable, plural halwas)

1. Alternative spelling of halva

English

Alternative forms

• halvah, halwa, halwah, halava, halawa

Etymology

From Hebrew ?????? (khalvá), from Romanian halva, from Ottoman Turkish ????? (helva), from Persian ????? (halvâ), from Arabic ???????? (?alw?).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /h??l?v??/, /?h??lv??/

Noun

halva (countable and uncountable, plural halvas)

1. A confection usually made from crushed sesame seeds and honey. It is a traditional dessert in South Asia, the Mediterranean and the Middle East.

Translations

References

Further reading

• halva on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Dutch

Etymology

From Hebrew ????? (halvá), from Romanian halva, from Ottoman Turkish ????? (helva), from Persian ????? (halvâ), from Arabic ???????? (?alw?).

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: hal?va

Noun

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

1. halva

Estonian

Adjective

halva

1. genitive singular of halb

Finnish

Noun

halva

1. halva

Declension

French

Pronunciation

• ^{(aspirated h)} IPA^(key): /al.va/

Noun

halva m (plural halvas)

1. halva

Further reading

• “halva” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Hungarian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?h?lv?]
• Hyphenation: hal?va
• Rhymes: -v?

Participle

halva

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

Adverb

halva

1. dead

Derived terms

• élve vagy halva

Ingrian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Ala-Laukaa, Soikkola) IPA^(key): /?h?l??/
• Hyphenation: hal?va

Adjective

halva (genitive halvan, partitive halvaa)

1. cheap
2. bad

Declension

References

• Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 43
• Vitalij Chernyavskij (2005) Ižoran keel (Ittseopastaja)?^[2], page 99

Italian

Noun

halva f

1. halva

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• halven

Noun

halva m or f

1. definite feminine singular of halve

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

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

1. form removed with the spelling reform of 2012; superseded by halve
2. definite singular of halve

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish ????? (helva), from Arabic ???????? (?alw?).

Noun

halva f (plural halvale)

1. halva

Declension

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish ????? (helva) (Turkish helva), from Arabic ???????? (?alw?).

Noun

halva f (Cyrillic spelling ?????)

1. halva

Declension

Synonyms

• tahan halva

Swedish

Noun

halva c

1. halva

Noun

halva c

1. a half

Declension

Synonyms

• hälft

Related terms

• halv
• halvera