hamantasch

[hah-muhn-tahsh, huhm-uhn-, hoom-]

noun

Jewish Cooking.

plural

hamantaschen 

1. a small triangular cake often made with yeast and filled with a mixture of poppy seeds and honey or with prune paste, prepared especially for the festival of Purim.

Word History and Origins

Origin of hamantasch¹

< Yiddish homentash, equivalent to homen Haman + tash pouch, pocket (compare Middle High German tasche, Old High German tasca; akin to task )

Example Sentences

The Jewish Journal chided high-profile Jews in Hollywood, including Steven Spielberg, for failing to make their feelings about the Gaza conflict known, as though anyone gives a flying hamantasch what Spielberg thinks about Gaza.

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