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matzo - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

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Noun

matzo (countable and uncountable, plural matzos or matzot or matzoth)

• (uncountable) Thin, unleavened bread in Jewish cuisine.
  • ✤ * Matzo is eaten by Jews on Passover.*
  • ✤ Like the Kopelmans, they have a Christmas tree with dreidel ornaments and a menorah, which they light each night. Pham learned to cook matzo ball soup.¹
• (countable) A piece of the above bread.
  • ✤ [W]hen a Hamas spokesman recently stood by his statement that Jews used the blood of non-Jewish children for their matzos – one of the oldest anti-Semitic canards around – European elites were largely silent.²

Etymology

When stressed on the first syllable, from Yiddish מצה (matse), from Hebrew מַצָּה (matsá); pronunciations stressed on the second syllable are borrowed directly from Hebrew.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ˈmætsə/, /ˈmætsəʊ/, /ˌmɑːˈtsɑː/
• Audio (Southern England): 🔊
• (US) IPA: /ˈmɑtsə/, /ˈmɑtsoʊ/, /ˌmɑˈtsɑ/
• Rhymes: (UK) -ætsə, -ɑː

Printed 2026-08-17.

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Footnotes

1. 2012 December 14, Emanuella Grinberg and Christina Zdanowicz, “Celebrating Chrismukkah: Shalom stockings and Hanukkah bushes”, in CNN ‎${}^{[1]}$, archived from the original on 10 December 2013: ↩

2. 2014 August 20, “Why Jews are worried [print version: International New York Times, 22 August 2014, p. 8]”, in The New York Times ‎${}^{[2]}$, archived from the original on 12 November 2020: ↩

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