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.

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

Example Sentences

I noticed a dozen or so jars of something called schav lined up against a wall in the Jewish food section.

From New York Times

“You don’t know what schav is? You eat it with a cold boiled potato and it’s delicious!”

From New York Times

Next in line will be sorrel in May, just in time to make schav for chilled-soup season.

From New York Times

Sorrel, another edible weed growing wild around the farm later in the season, is popular among Eastern European Jews who prepare schav, a cold sorrel soup for hot weather.

From Washington Post