حلوا

See also: خلوا

Arabic

Verb

حَلُّوا • (ḥallū) (form I)

1. third-person masculine plural past active of حَلَّ (ḥalla)

Verb

حُلُّوا • (ḥullū) (form I)

1. third-person masculine plural past passive of حَلَّ (ḥalla)

Munji

Noun

حلوا (halwā)

1. dessert

Ottoman Turkish

حلوا

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian حلوا (halvâ, “sweetmeat”), from Arabic حَلْوَى (ḥalwā, “candy, confection, dessert”).

Noun

حلوا • (halva, helva)

1. halva, a traditional Middle Eastern confection usually made from crushed sesame seeds and honey

Derived terms

• ارشته حلواسی (erişte helvası, “fresh made halva of vermicelli”)
• اون حلواسی (un helvası, “halva prepared with flour and butter”)
• بادم حلواسی (badem helvası, “halva prepared with almonds”)
• حلوا باصمق (helva basmak, “to make halva”)
• حلوا صحبتی (helva sohbeti, “social feast at which halva is the main dish”)
• حلواجی (helvacı, “confectioner”)
• حلواخانه (helvahane, “cauldron used to make halva”)
• حلوالق (helvalık, “child's pocket-money”)
• خاقانی حلوا (hakani helva, “kind of homemade halva”)
• سیسام حلواسی (sisam helvası, “halva prepared with sesame seeds”)
• قار حلواسی (kar helvası, “syrup poured on snow”)
• قدرت حلواسی (kudret helvası, “manna”)
• قوز حلواسی (koz helvası, “halva in which kernels of walnuts are mixed”)
• كاغد حلواسی (kâğıd helvası, “wafers with halva between”)
• كتان حلواسی (katan helvası, “halva made in a mass of fibres”)
• هند حلوا (hind helva, “black catechu”)

 

Descendants

• > Turkish: helva (inherited)
• → Albanian: hallvë
• → Bulgarian: халва́ (halvá)
• → Crimean Tatar: elva
• → Greek: χαλβάς (chalvás)
• → Ladino: halvá
• → Macedonian: алва (alva)
• → Romanian: halva
  • → Hebrew: חלווה (khalvá)
    • → Yiddish: כאַלווע (khalve)
    • → Dutch: halva
    • → English: halva
• → Russian: халва́ (xalvá)
• → Serbo-Croatian:
  • Latin script: halva
  • Cyrillic script: халва

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “helva”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1928
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “حلوا”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 201a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “حلوا”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 517
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Dulciarium”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[3], Vienna, column 436
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “حلوا”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 1800
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “helva”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “حلوا”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 802

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic حَلْوَى (ḥalwā).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [hal.wɑː]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [häl.wɑː]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [häl.wɑː]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [ʔäl.wɑː]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [ʔäl.wɔː]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [hæl.vɒː]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [häl.vɔ]

Readings
Classical reading?	halwā
Dari reading?	halwā
Iranian reading?	halvâ
Tajik reading?	halvo

Noun

حلوا • (halvâ)

1. sweetmeat

Descendants

• → Assamese: হালুৱা (halua)
• → Bengali: হালুয়া (haluẏa)
• → Hindustani:

  Hindi: हलवा (halvā)

  Urdu: حلوہ (halvā)

  • → Burmese: ဟလဝါ (ha.la.wa)
• → Marathi: हलवा (halvā)
• → Ottoman Turkish: حلوا (halva, helva)
  • > Turkish: helva (inherited)
  • → Albanian: hallvë
  • → Bulgarian: халва́ (halvá)
  • → Crimean Tatar: elva
  • → Greek: χαλβάς (chalvás)
  • → Ladino: halvá
  • → Macedonian: алва (alva)
  • → Romanian: halva
    • → Hebrew: חלווה (khalvá)
      • → Yiddish: כאַלווע (khalve)
      • → Dutch: halva
      • → English: halva
  • → Russian: халва́ (xalvá)
  • → Serbo-Croatian:
    • Latin script: halva
    • Cyrillic script: халва
• → Punjabi:

  Gurmukhi script: ਹਲਵਾ (halvā)

  Shahmukhi script: حلوا (halvā)