khalva
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "We were thus obliged to enter into an agreement to eat by turns a little of every dish, and we thought this would have succeeded, till we were at last overcome by a regular course of Khalva, a preparation of honey, flour of almonds, and oil, sent up in every state; […]"
- "Khalva is made of flour, sugar and butter, or in some cases mutton tallow, rank and strong, made from the tails of the Camaran sheep."
- "Strelka (Little Arrow) and Belka (Squirrel) ate eagerly shortly after their capsule landed following its 17 trips around the earth, the Soviet news agency Tass said. It added that the space pooches preferred the sweetmeat khalva to the sausages also offered them."
- "He jogged his memory by smoking a pipe with a two-inch portion of a cigar screwed into the bowl and by munching khalva, an orental^([sic]) pastry."
- "KHALVA — SYRUPY WALNUT DESSERT"
- "“Try this, it’s like candy,” said an Uzbek boy selling chunks of white khalva from a canvas sack. He deposited each purchase in an old newspaper shaped into a cone."
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: حلوا, халва́