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kichel

kichel noun: a sweet cracker or cookie in Jewish cuisine.

kichel: a sweet cracker or cookie in Jewish cuisine
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Noun

kichel (plural kichlach)

  1. a sweet cracker or cookie in Jewish cuisine
    • Even before the year 1800, there was a tendency to hold fancy Bar Mitzvah Seudot which led to sumptuary laws trying to limit the excess. Even so, in Eastern Europe, the party tended to be very modest, including some herring, kichel and schnapps.2024, David Golinkin, “The Origin and History of the Bar/Bat Mitzvah Ceremony”, in Responsa in a Moment, volume 4, page 51

Forms of kichel

pluralkichlach

Origin of kichel

Borrowed from Yiddish קיכל (kikhl).

Questions about kichel

What does kichel mean?
Kichel means a sweet cracker or cookie in Jewish cuisine.
What part of speech is kichel?
Kichel is a noun.
What is the plural of kichel?
The plural of kichel is kichlach.

Words near kichel in the dictionary

  1. kiby
  2. kichadi
  3. Kichaga
  4. Kichagga
  5. Kichai
  6. kichel
  7. Kichenside
  8. Kichi Sipi
  9. Kichijoji
  10. Kichijōji
  11. kichiri

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