falafel
noun/fəˈlæfl/
/fəˈlɑːfl/
(also felafel)
[uncountable, countable] (plural falafel, falafels)
- a Middle Eastern dish consisting of small balls formed from chickpeas, usually eaten with flat bread; one of these ballsTopics Foodc2Word Originfrom colloquial Egyptian Arabic falāfil, plural of Arabic fulful, filfil ‘pepper’.
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