schav

American  

[shahv, shchahv] / ʃɑv, ʃtʃɑv /

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.

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Etymology

Origin of schav

< Yiddish shtshav sorrel, soup made with sorrel < Polish szczaw, akin to Czech štʾavel, Serbo-Croatian štàvelj, Russian shchavélʾ sorrel

Example Sentences

I noticed a dozen or so jars of something called schav lined up against a wall in the Jewish food section.

From New York Times • Oct. 31, 2021

“You don’t know what schav is? You eat it with a cold boiled potato and it’s delicious!”

From New York Times • Oct. 31, 2021