halavah

ha·la·vah

[hah-luh-vah]
noun
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halvah, halva or halavah (ˈhælvɑː, ˈhæləvɑː) [Click for IPA pronunciation guide]
 
n
an Eastern Mediterranean, Middle Eastern, or Indian sweetmeat made of honey and containing sesame seeds, nuts, rose water, saffron, etc
 
[from Yiddish halva, from Romanian, from Turkish helve, from Arabic halwā sweetmeat]
 
halva, halva or halavah
 
n
 
[from Yiddish halva, from Romanian, from Turkish helve, from Arabic halwā sweetmeat]
 
halavah, halva or halavah
 
n
 
[from Yiddish halva, from Romanian, from Turkish helve, from Arabic halwā sweetmeat]

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Halavah is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
an extraordinary or unusual thing, person, or event; an exceptional example or instance.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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