halva
French, noun/al.va/
halva is spelled H-A-L-V-A (5 letters) and appears about once in every 28 million words in written French, the 170,198th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Halva is a French masculine noun meaning “halva” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Confiserie orientale faite de farine, d'huile de sésame, de miel, de fruits et d'amandes ou de pistaches”.
What does halva mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinehalva
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Confiserie orientale faite de farine, d'huile de sésame, de miel, de fruits et d'amandes ou de pistaches. 2. Confiserie indienne à base de semoule.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of halva
- halvas plural
- ^((h aspiré))\al.va\ singular plural
- halwa
- khalva
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce halva?
- /al.va/
- ^((h aspiré))\al.va\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to halva
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is halva in French?
halva appears about once in every 28 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).