challah : M-W's Word of the Day

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The Word of the Day for December 8 is:

challah \HAH-luh (the initial "H" is also frequently pronounced as a velar fricative)\ noun
: egg-rich yeast-leavened bread that is usually braided or twisted before baking and is traditionally eaten by Jews on the Sabbath and holidays

Example sentence:
Upon returning home for the winter break, Ari was delighted to smell freshly baked challah.

Did you know?
When English speakers first borrowed "challah" from Yiddish, they couldn't quite settle on a single spelling, so the word showed up in several forms; "challah," "challa,"
"calloth," "challot," "hallah," "halloth," and "hallot" were all common enough to merit inclusion in _Webster's Third New International Dictionary, Unabridged_. But only the variants "challah," "challa," and "hallah" continue to show up regularly enough to have found a place in smaller abridged dictionaries.

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