noun
- a loaf of rich white bread leavened with yeast and containing eggs, often braided before baking, prepared especially for the Jewish Sabbath.
noun plural -lahs or -loth (Hebrew -ˈlɔt)
- bread, usually in the form of a plaited loaf, traditionally eaten by Jews to celebrate the Sabbath
from Yiddish khale, from Hebrew chala “loaf of bread.”