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kolyva

kolyva is the alternative spelling of koliva.

Meaning of koliva

Noun

koliva (uncountable)

  1. A dish made of sweetened boiled wheat, optionally mixed with nuts and spices, and used in Eastern Orthodox rituals to commemorate the dead or at slava.

Questions about kolyva

What is kolyva the alternative spelling of?
Kolyva is the alternative spelling of koliva.

Words near kolyva in the dictionary

  1. Kolya
  2. Kolye
  3. Kolyma
  4. kolymite
  5. kolytic
  6. kolyva
  7. Kolyvan
  8. Kolín
  9. Kolāra
  10. KOM
  11. komabue

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Adapted from Wiktionary: kolyva (page history and authors); koliva (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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