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’.