halva

• khalva, halava, halavah, halawa, halaweh, halvah, halwa, halwah, hulwa

From Hebrew חלווה (khálva), from Romanian halva, from Ottoman Turkish حلوا (helva), from Persian حلوا (halvâ), from Arabic حَلْوَى (ḥalwā).^[1] Cognate with Halwai.

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /hɑːlˈvɑː/, /ˈhɑːlvɑː/, /ˈxɑːlvə/

halva (countable and uncountable, plural halvas)

2. A confection usually made from crushed sesame seeds and honey. It is a traditional dessert in South Asia, the Mediterranean and the Middle East.
   • 2016 January 26, Eyal Press, “When ‘Made In Israel’ Is a Human Rights Abuse”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     Just before Christmas, Ron Dermer, Israel’s ambassador to the United States, sent the White House a box of holiday gifts with a pointed political message. Inside were items (body lotion, halvah, olive oil) produced in Jewish settlements in the West Bank.

• sohan halva

• Halwai

• halva on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

From Arabic حَلْوَى (ḥalwā).

halva (definite accusative halvanı, plural halvalar)

1. halva

• “halva” in Obastan.com.

From Hebrew חלבה (halvá), from Romanian halva, from Ottoman Turkish حلوا (helva), from Persian حلوا (halvâ), from Arabic حَلْوَى (ḥalwā).

• Hyphenation: hal‧va

halva f or m (plural halva's, diminutive halvaatje n)

1. halva

halva

1. genitive singular of halb

From Russian халва (xalva).

• IPA^(key): /ˈhɑlʋɑ/, [ˈhɑ̝lʋɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -ɑlʋɑ
• Syllabification^(key): hal‧va
• Hyphenation^(key): hal‧va

halva

1. halva

• “halva”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[2] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2 July 2023

• ^{(aspirated h)} IPA^(key): /al.va/

halva m (plural halvas)

1. halva

• “halva”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• IPA^(key): [ˈhɒlvɒ]

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• Hyphenation: hal‧va
• Rhymes: -vɒ

hal (“to die”) +‎ -va (adverbial-participle suffix)

halva

1. adverbial participle of hal (“to die”)

halva

1. dead (as a complement: in the state of being dead)

   Synonym: holtan

   élve vagy halva ― dead or alive

   halva született ― stillborn

halva (usually uncountable, plural halvák)

1. halva (confection usually made from crushed sesame seeds and honey)

• (dead): halva in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.
• (halva [a confection usually made from crushed sesame seeds and honey]): halva in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.

From Proto-Finnic *halpa. Cognates include Finnish halpa (“cheap”) and Estonian halb (“bad”).

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈhɑlʋɑ/, [ˈhɑɫʋ]
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈhɑlʋɑ/, [ˈhɑɫʋɑ]
• Rhymes: -ɑlʋ, -ɑlʋɑ
• Hyphenation: hal‧va

halva (comparative halvemp)

1. cheap
2. bad

Declension of halva (type 3/koira, no gradation)
	singular	plural
nominative	halva	halvat
genitive	halvan	halviin
partitive	halvaa	halvia
illative	halvaa	halvii
inessive	halvaas	halviis
elative	halvast	halvist
allative	halvalle	halville
adessive	halvaal	halviil
ablative	halvalt	halvilt
translative	halvaks	halviks
essive	halvanna, halvaan	halvinna, halviin
exessive1)	halvant	halvint
1) obsolete *) the accusative corresponds with either the genitive (sg) or nominative (pl) **) the comitative is formed by adding the suffix -ka? or -kä? to the genitive.

• Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 43

halva f

1. halva

• halven

halva m or f

1. definite feminine singular of halve

halva f (definite singular halva, indefinite plural halver or halvor, definite plural halvene or halvone)

1. (pre-2012) alternative form of halve
2. definite singular of halve

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish حلوا (helva), from Arabic حَلْوَى (ḥalwā).

• IPA^(key): /halˈva/

halva f (plural halvale)

1. halva

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish حلوا (helva) (Turkish helva), from Arabic حَلْوَى (ḥalwā).

halva f (Cyrillic spelling халва)

1. halva

   Synonym: tahan halva

Swedish numbers ^(edit)

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Cardinal: två     Ordinal: andra     Ordinal abbreviation: 2:a     Multiplier: tvåfaldig     Fractional: halva

halva c

1. halva

halva c

1. a half

   Jag gav barnen varsin halva av äpplet.

   I gave the kids one half of the apple each.

2. (colloquial) the second snaps drunk in a series

• ägghalva

• halv
• halvera

• hälft

• halva in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• halva in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)