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cho•lent
(chô′lənt, chul′ənt; Yiddish chôlnt),USA pronunciation n. [Jewish Cookery.]
- Fooda stewed or baked dish, esp. of meat and beans, served on the Sabbath but cooked the day before or overnight over a slow fire.
- Latin calentem, accusative present participle of calēre to be hot (
French, Old French chaloir, attested only in derived sense "to be of interest, matter''; compare nonchalant); compare Hebrew (post-Biblical) ḥammīn cholent, derivative of ḥam hot - Old French
- Yiddish tsholnt, tshulnt, perh.