falafel
English
Alternative forms
- felafel (less common)
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic فَلَافِل (falāfil), the plural of فِلْفِل (filfil, “pepper”),[1][2] which is preceded by and derived from either:
- Persian پلپل (pilpil), from Sanskrit पिप्पली (pippalī, “long pepper”), or
- Aramaic [script needed] (pilpāl, “small round thing, peppercorn”) derived from [script needed] (palpēl, “to be round, roll”).
Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -æfəl, -ɑːfəl, -ɒfəl
- Hyphenation: fa‧la‧fel
Noun
falafel (countable and uncountable, plural falafels or falafel)
- (uncountable) A Middle Eastern food in the form of balls made from chickpeas and other ingredients. Often served in a pita.
- 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.
- There's a stall at the market that sells fantastic falafel.
- (countable) A pita with falafel balls inside (like a sandwich or a wrap).
- 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.
- (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.
Translations
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References
- ^ “falafel”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
- ^ Isaac E. Mozeson (2002 September) The Word: The Dictionary That Reveals the Hebrew Source of English[1], SP Books, →ISBN, retrieved 12 October 2011, page 123
Danish
Alternative forms
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic فَلَافِل (falāfil), the plural of فِلْفِل (filfil, “pepper”). See the English entry for more.
Pronunciation
Noun
falafel c (singular definite falaflen, plural indefinite falafler)
- falafel (single ball)
Declension
common gender |
Singular | Plural | ||
---|---|---|---|---|
indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | falafel | falaflen | falafler | falaflerne |
genitive | falafels | falaflens | falaflers | falaflernes |
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic فَلَافِل (falāfil), the plural of فِلْفِل (filfil, “pepper”). See the English entry for more.
Pronunciation
Noun
falafel m (plural falafels, diminutive falafeltje n)
Finnish
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic فَلَافِل (falāfil), the plural of فِلْفِل (filfil, “pepper”). See the English entry for more.
Pronunciation
Noun
falafel
Declension
Inflection of falafel (Kotus type 6/paperi, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | falafel | falafelit | |
genitive | falafelin | falafelien falafeleiden falafeleitten | |
partitive | falafelia | falafeleita falafeleja | |
illative | falafeliin | falafeleihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | falafel | falafelit | |
accusative | nom. | falafel | falafelit |
gen. | falafelin | ||
genitive | falafelin | falafelien falafeleiden falafeleitten | |
partitive | falafelia | falafeleita falafeleja | |
inessive | falafelissa | falafeleissa | |
elative | falafelista | falafeleista | |
illative | falafeliin | falafeleihin | |
adessive | falafelilla | falafeleilla | |
ablative | falafelilta | falafeleilta | |
allative | falafelille | falafeleille | |
essive | falafelina | falafeleina | |
translative | falafeliksi | falafeleiksi | |
abessive | falafelitta | falafeleitta | |
instructive | — | falafelein | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Polish
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic فَلَافِل (falāfil), the plural of فِلْفِل (filfil, “pepper”). See the English entry for more.
Pronunciation
Noun
falafel m inan
Declension
singular | plural | |
---|---|---|
nominative | falafel | falafele |
genitive | falafela | falafeli |
dative | falafelowi | falafelom |
accusative | falafel/falafela | falafele |
instrumental | falafelem | falafelami |
locative | falafelu | falafelach |
vocative | falafelu | falafele |
Further reading
- falafel in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- Template:R:PWN
Spanish
Alternative forms
- faláfel (following the Arabic stress)
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic فَلَافِل (falāfil), the plural of فِلْفِل (filfil, “pepper”). See the English entry for more.
Pronunciation
Noun
falafel m (plural falafeles)
Swedish
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic فَلَافِل (falāfil), the plural of فِلْفِل (filfil, “pepper”). See the English entry for more.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -affel
- Hyphenation: fa‧la‧fel
Noun
falafel c
Declension
Declension of falafel | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|
Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | falafel | falafeln | falaflar | falaflarna |
Genitive | falafels | falafelns | falaflars | falaflarnas |
- English terms borrowed from Arabic
- English terms derived from Arabic
- English terms derived from Persian
- English terms derived from Sanskrit
- English terms derived from Aramaic
- English 3-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:English/æfəl
- Rhymes:English/ɑːfəl
- Rhymes:English/ɒfəl
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- English countable nouns
- English indeclinable nouns
- English nouns with irregular plurals
- English terms with quotations
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- Danish terms borrowed from Arabic
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- Danish terms with IPA pronunciation
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- Dutch terms borrowed from Arabic
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- Finnish terms borrowed from Arabic
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- Finnish 3-syllable words
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- Finnish nouns
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- fi:Foods
- Polish terms borrowed from Arabic
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- pl:Foods
- Spanish terms borrowed from Arabic
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- Rhymes:Spanish/el
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- Swedish terms borrowed from Arabic
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- Rhymes:Swedish/affel
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