different between jew vs challah

jew

English

Pronunciation

  • (UK, US) IPA(key): /d?u?/
  • Homophones: Jew, dew
  • Rhymes: -u?

Etymology 1

Transferred use of Jew.

Alternative forms

  • Jew

Verb

jew (third-person singular simple present jews, present participle jewing, simple past and past participle jewed)

  1. (offensive) To bargain, to attempt to gain an unfair price in a business deal; to defraud.
Related terms
  • jew down
  • kike

Noun

jew (plural jews)

  1. (Australia) The jewfish. [from 19th c.]
    • 1994, Rita Huggins & Jackie Huggins, Auntie Rita, in Heiss & Minter, Macquarie PEN Anthology of Aboriginal Literature, Allen & Unwin 2008, p. 151:
      The creeks gave us lots of food, too—yellow belly and jew, perch and eel.

Etymology 2

Phrase

jew

  1. Pronunciation spelling of d' you, representing colloquial English.
  2. Pronunciation spelling of 'd you, representing colloquial English.

Anagrams

  • jwé

Maltese

Etymology

From Arabic ????? (?aw).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /j?w/

Conjunction

jew

  1. or
  2. else

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challah

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

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