Portuguese language in Africa the various Portuguese creoles that have developed there. These creole languages co-exist with Portuguese and, in the countries where they are spoken, form a continuum with the lexifying language. In Cape Verde, refers to a variety of Cape Verdean Creole which takes on various features of Portuguese and is a result of processes of decreolization in the archipelago. In São Tome e Principe, Santomense Portuguese is a variety of Portuguese strongly influenced by Forro in syntax and vocabulary. Since the lexicons of those languages are derived from Portuguese, even creole-speakers who do not speak Portuguese have a passive knowledge of
Cholent "chalant" (present participle of "chalt", from the verb "chaloir", "to warm"). One widely quoted folk etymology, relying on the French pronunciation of cholent or the Central and Western European variants "shalent" or "shalet", derives the word from French "chaud" ("hot") and "lent" ("slow"). Another folk etymology derives cholent (or sholen) from the Hebrew "she’lan", which means "that rested [overnight]". This refers to the old-time cooking tradition of Jewish families placing their individual pots of cholent into the town baker's ovens that always stayed hot and slow-cooked the food overnight. Yet another etymology is Old French "chaudes lentes", "hot lentils". "Hamin"