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schav

[ shahv, shchahv ]

noun

, Jewish or Eastern European Cooking.
  1. a cold soup of sorrel to which chopped egg, sour cream, lemon juice, and chopped scallions are sometimes added.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of schav1

< Yiddish shtshav sorrel, soup made with sorrel < Polish szczaw, akin to Czech štʾavel, Serbo-Croatian štàvelj, Russian shchavélʾ sorrel

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