falafel

• felafel, falafil (less common)

Borrowed from Arabic فَلَافِل (falāfil). Doublet of peepul and pepper.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /fəˈlɑːfəl/, /fəˈlæfəl/, /fəˈlɒfəl/

  • Audio (Southern England):

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• (US) IPA^(key): /fəˈlɑfəl/
• Rhymes: -æfəl, -ɑːfəl, -ɒfəl
• Hyphenation: fa‧la‧fel

falafel (countable and uncountable, plural falafels or falafel)

1. (uncountable) A Middle Eastern food in the form of balls made from chickpeas or broad beans and other ingredients, often served in a pita.

   There's a stall at the market that sells fantastic falafel.

   • 2003, Margo Daly, Rough guide to Australia, page 51:

     Lebanese restaurants are especially good for vegetarians, with falafel rolls (pitta bread stuffed with chickpea patties, hummus and tabbouleh) making an inexpensive, filling meal.

   • 2003, Holly M. Moskowitz, Finding Falafel, page 58:

     I ate lafa — falafel with all the regular stuffings and sauces wrapped in a pizza size pita instead of being stuffed in it. Etai ordered a regular falafel. My lafiz was twice the size of his falafel and although neither of us could finish the lafiz, we embarked on it together.

2. (countable) A pita with falafel balls as a filling.
   • 2003, Holly M. Moskowitz, Finding Falafel, page 58:

     I ate lafa — falafel with all the regular stuffings and sauces wrapped in a pizza size pita instead of being stuffed in it. Etai ordered a regular falafel. My lafiz was twice the size of his falafel and although neither of us could finish the lafiz, we embarked on it together.

   • 2010, Reza Aslan, How to Win a Cosmic War: Confronting Radical Religions, page 161:

     Here, close-cropped future soldiers would learn how to introduce themselves to strangers, the proper way to order a falafel and a Coke, how to shout Get out of the car.

   • 2012, Giveon Cornfield, Lilian, page 186:

     They decided, sotto voce, to go out for a falafel. […] The falafel itself was incidental: it was the array of salds, pickled and fried vegetables, olives and sauces which one stuffed into the pita that made it such an adventure.

   • 2013, Ruchama King Feuerman, In the Courtyard of the Kabbalist, New York Review of Books, →ISBN, page 218:

     A beggar, his head swathed in rags, was eating a falafel, bits of cucumber falling out of the pita's corners. He looked askance as Mustafa lumbered by.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:falafel.
3. (countable) A single falafel ball.

   The stallholder puts salad into an open pita bread, followed by the four falafels, and then liberally covers them with hummus.

• fawaffle

• falaffel

Borrowed from Arabic فَلَافِل (falāfil).

• IPA^(key): [faˈlɑfl̩]

falafel c (singular definite falaflen, plural indefinite falafler)

1. falafel (single ball)

Borrowed from Arabic فَلَافِل (falāfil).

• IPA^(key): /fɑˈlɑfəl/, /fɑˈlaːfəl/

• Audio:

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falafel m (plural falafels, diminutive falafeltje n)

1. falafel

Borrowed from Arabic فَلَافِل (falāfil).

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɑlɑfel/, [ˈfɑ̝lɑ̝fe̞l]
• Rhymes: -ɑlɑfel
• Syllabification^(key): fa‧la‧fel
• Hyphenation^(key): fa‧la‧fel

falafel

1. falafel

• “falafel”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2 July 2023

Borrowed from Arabic فَلَافِل (falāfil).

• IPA^(key): /fa.la.fɛl/

• Audio:

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falafel m (plural falafels)

1. falafel

Internationalism; compare English falafel, French falafel, German Falafel, ultimately from Arabic فَلَافِل (falāfil).

• IPA^(key): /faˈla.fɛl/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -afɛl
• Syllabification: fa‧la‧fel

falafel m animal or m inan

1. falafel (Middle Eastern food in the form of balls made from chickpeas or broad beans and other ingredients, often served in a pita)

• falafel in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• falafel in Polish dictionaries at PWN

• faláfel (following the Arabic stress)

Borrowed from Arabic فَلَافِل (falāfil).

• IPA^(key): /falaˈfel/ [fa.laˈfel]
• Rhymes: -el
• Syllabification: fa‧la‧fel

falafel m (plural falafels or falafeles)

1. falafel

• “falafel”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

Borrowed from Arabic فَلَافِل (falāfil).

• Rhymes: -affel
• Hyphenation: fa‧la‧fel

falafel c

1. falafel

   Falafel görs på kikärtor

   Falafel is made from chickpeas

• falafelrulle

• kikärtor (“chickpeas”)

• falafel in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• falafel in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)