Halve vs Halva - What's the difference?
halve | halva |
To reduce to half the original amount.
To divide into two halves.
To make up half of.
* M. Arnold
(architecture) To join two pieces of timber etc. by cutting away each for half its thickness at the joining place, and fitting together.
A confection usually made from crushed sesame seeds and honey. It is a traditional dessert in India, the Mediterranean, the Balkans, and the Middle East.
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As a verb halve
is to reduce to half the original amount.As a noun halva is
a confection usually made from crushed sesame seeds and honey. It is a traditional dessert in India, the Mediterranean, the Balkans, and the Middle East.halve
English
Verb
(halv)- So far apart their lives are thrown / From the twin soul that halves their own.