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halva

help with synonyms  synonyms: حلوا, 芝麻酥糖 ???
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Definition:
any of various dense, sweet confections with roots in the Middle East, Central Asia, and India. [...]
In global, popular usage it means "desserts" or "sweet", and describes two types of desserts:

Flour-based
[...] slightly gelatinous and made from grain flour, typically semolina (suji- India). Its primary ingredients are clarified butter (ghee), flour, and sugar.
Nut butter-based
[...] crumbly and usually made from tahini (sesame paste) or other nut butters, such as sunflower seed butter. Its primary ingredients are nut butter and sugar.

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may also be Anglicized as halawa, alva, haleweh, halava, helava, helva, halwa, halua, aluva, chalva, or chałwa
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One day Milo flew away to England to pick up a load of Turkish halvah and came flying back from Madagascar leading four German bombers filled with yams, collards, mustard greens and black-eyed Georgia peas.

Joseph Heller. Catch-22, p.253 (1961)
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