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