cholent

[ chaw-luhnt, chuhl-uhnt; Yiddish chawlnt ]

noun

, Jewish Cooking.

1. a stewed or baked dish, especially of meat and beans, served on the Sabbath but cooked the day before or overnight over a slow fire.

cholent

/ ˈtʃolənt /

noun

1. Judaism a meal usually consisting of a stew of meat, potatoes, and pulses prepared before the Sabbath on Friday and left to cook until eaten for Sabbath lunch

Word History and Origins

Origin of cholent¹

< Yiddish tsholnt, tshulnt, perhaps < Old French < Latin calentem, accusative present participle of calēre to be hot (> French, Old French chaloir, attested only in derived sense “to be of interest, matter”; nonchalant ); compare Hebrew (post-Biblical) ḥammīn cholent, derivative of ḥam hot