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hallah

hallah is the alternative form of challah.

Meaning of challah

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 a 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[…].2006, The Mishnah, seder Zeraim, tractate Challah, Personal-Size edition, Mesorah Publications, page 54, commentary on 1:7
  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.

Forms of hallah

pluralhallahs
pluralhallot
pluralhalloth
pluralhallos

Questions about hallah

What is hallah the alternative form of?
Hallah is the alternative form of challah.

Words near hallah in the dictionary

  1. hallachores
  2. Halladay
  3. Halladays
  4. hallage
  5. hallages
  6. hallah
  7. Hallahan
  8. Hallahans
  9. hallahs
  10. hallal
  11. hallaled

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hallah (page history and authors); challah (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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