Etymology

lahoh

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Today it means: A spongy, pancake-like bread originating in Djibouti, Somaliland, Somalia, and Yemen. Full definition →

Arabic لحوح
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  1. Arabic · borrowed fromلحوح
  2. English todaylahoh

From Arabic لحوح (laḥūḥ), related to لَوْح (lawḥ, “board”), apparently in the sense of being a flat surface.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.