HALLAH

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Irregular inflected forms: challoth , hallot , halloth

Meaning:

(Judaism) a loaf of white bread containing eggs and leavened with yeast; often formed into braided loaves and glazed with eggs before baking

Synonyms:

challah; hallah

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("hallah" is a kind of...):

bread; breadstuff; staff of life (food made from dough of flour or meal and usually raised with yeast or baking powder and then baked)

Domain category:

cookery; cooking; preparation (the act of preparing something (as food) by the application of heat)

Judaism (the monotheistic religion of the Jews having its spiritual and ethical principles embodied chiefly in the Torah and in the Talmud)