/chaw"leuhnt, chul"euhnt/ ; Yiddish /chawlnt/ , n. Jewish Cookery.
a stewed or baked dish, esp. of meat and beans, served on the Sabbath but cooked the day before or overnight over a slow fire.
[ tsholnt, tshulnt, perh. calentem, acc. prp. of calere to be hot ( > F, OF chaloir, attested only in derived sense "to be of interest, matter"; cf. NONCHALANT); cf. Heb (post-Biblical) hammin cholent, deriv. of ham hot ]