matzah
[maht-suh; Sephardic Hebrew mah-tsah; Ashkenazic Hebrew mah-tsaw]
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matzo
or mat·zah, mat·zoh
[maht-suh; Sephardic Hebrew mah-tsah; Ashkenazic Hebrew mah-tsaw]
- unleavened bread in the form of large crackers, typically square and corrugated, eaten by Jews during Passover.
- one of these crackers.
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Origin of matzo
1840–50; < Yiddish matse < Hebrew maṣṣāh
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I came across one of his best-sellers, "The Matzah of Zion," in Damascus this summer.
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The soup with matzah balls, the fish, in fact the entire menu made them think of home.
A Jewish Chaplain in FranceLee J. Levinger
matzo
matzoh matza or matzah (ˈmætsə)
- a brittle very thin biscuit of unleavened bread, traditionally eaten during Passover
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Word Origin
from Hebrew matsāh
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Word Origin and History for matzah
n.
also matza; see matzoh.
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Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
matzo
[(maht-suh)]
A flat piece of unleavened bread, resembling a large cracker, used by Jews (see also Jews) in place of yeast bread during Passover (see also Passover). According to the biblical account of Passover, God directed the ancestors of the Jews to eat unleavened bread, rather than delay their departure from Egypt (see also Egypt) by waiting for bread to rise.
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