khalva

From Ottoman Turkish حلوا (halva/helva), Persian حلوا (halvâ), and Russian халва́ (xalvá).

khalva (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of halva.
   • 1823, William Gell, Narrative of a Journey in the Morea, London: […] [F]or Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […] by A[ndrew] & R[obert] Spottiswoode, […], →OCLC, page 82:

     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; […]

   • 1887 September 3, Olive Harper [pseudonym; Ellen Burrell D’Apery], “Some Turkish Dishes. […]”, in Omaha Daily World, volume 3, number 10, Omaha, Neb., →OCLC, page 7, column 3:

     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.

   • 1960 August 22, “Cosmic Zoo Back in Fine Condition, Russians Report”, in The Gazette, 183rd year, Montreal, Que., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 1, column 2:

     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.

   • 1961 April 26, “From Russian Cossack to Christian Scholar: Professor Recalls Turns on Trail of Adventure”, in The Minneapolis Star, volume LXXXIII, number 130, Minneapolis, Minn., →OCLC, page 18C, column 3:

     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.

   • 1978 November 8, Andrea Winkjer, “‘Russian women shop for groceries every day’: Moscow visit inspires cooking of pirozhki, khalva”, in Grand Forks Herald, 100th year, number 134, Grand Forks, N.D., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 3E, column 4:

     KHALVA — SYRUPY WALNUT DESSERT

   • 1979 August 28, Jim Gallagher, “Capitalism survives in Soviet Asia mart”, in Chicago Tribune, 132nd year, number 240, Chicago, Ill., →ISSN, →OCLC, section 1, page 4, column 1:

     “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.

   • 2018, Evangelos Venetis, transl., “The Trick of Shāhmalik’s Daughter to Poison Alexander, How He Discovered Her Plans and What Happened”, in The Persian Alexander: The First Complete English Translation of the Iskandarnāma, London: I.B. Tauris, →ISBN:

     She had three or four plates of khalva which all looked alike. In every plate, she put a quantity of khalva as was customary. Khalva was made of sugar.