فلافل

Arabic

Etymology

Broken plural of فِلْفِل (filfil).

Noun

فَلَافِل • (falāfil) pl

1. falafel (a dish made of ground broad beans, and/or chickpeas mixed with various herbs and optionally garlic and deep-fat fried as croquettes)

Declension

Declension of noun فَلَافِل (falāfil)

Plural	basic broken plural diptote
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	فَلَافِل falāfil	الْفَلَافِل al-falāfil	فَلَافِل falāfil
Nominative	فَلَافِلُ falāfilu	الْفَلَافِلُ al-falāfilu	فَلَافِلُ falāfilu
Accusative	فَلَافِلَ falāfila	الْفَلَافِلَ al-falāfila	فَلَافِلَ falāfila
Genitive	فَلَافِلَ falāfila	الْفَلَافِلِ al-falāfili	فَلَافِلِ falāfili

Synonyms

• طَعْمِيَّة (ṭaʕmiyya) (Cairo, southern Egypt, Sudan)

Descendants

Descendants

• → Armenian: ֆալաֆել (falafel)
• → Azerbaijani: falafel, fəlafel
• → Bengali: ফালাফেল (phalaphel)
• → Bulgarian: фала́фел (faláfel)
• → Catalan: falàfel
• → Cebuano: palapel, palápel
• → Chinese: 法拉費／法拉费 (fǎlāfèi), 法拉费 (fǎlāfèi)
• → Czech: falafel
• → Danish: falafel
• → Dutch: falafel
• → Esperanto: falafloj
• → Finnish: falafel
• → French: falafels, falafel
• → German: Falafel
• → Greek: φαλάφελ (faláfel), φελάφελ (feláfel)
• → Hebrew: פָלָאפֶל (faláfel)
• → Hungarian: falafel
• → Italian: falafel, felafel
• → Japanese: ファラフェル (faraferu), ファラーフェル (farāferu)
• → Kannada: ಫ಼ಲಾಫ಼ಲ್ (falāfal)
• → Kazakh: фалафель (falafel)
• → Korean: 팔라펠 (pallapel)
• → Kyrgyz: фалафель (falafel)
• → Latvian: felāfels, falafels
• → Lithuanian: falafeliai
• → Malay: falafel
• → Marathi: फलाफल (phalāphal), फेलाफिल (phelāphil), फेलॅफिल (phelĕphil)
• → Persian: فلافل (falâfel)
• → Portuguese: faláfel, falafel
• → Russian: фала́фель (faláfelʹ)
• → Serbo-Croatian: фалафел / falafel
• → Slovak: falafel, faláfil
• → Spanish: falafel, faláfel
• → Swedish: falafel
• → Tajik: фалофил (falofil)
• → Tamil: ஃபிளாபல் (fiḷāpal)
• → Thai: ฟาลาเฟล (faa-laa-feel), ฟะลาฟิล (fá-laa-fil)
• → Turkish: felafel
• → Ukrainian: фала́фель (faláfelʹ)
• → Yiddish: פֿאַלאַפֿעל (falafel)

Persian

Etymology

From Arabic فَلَافِل (falāfil), ultimately from Early Classical Persian پلپل (pilpil).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [fa.lɑː.fil]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [fä.lɑː.fɪl]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [fä.lɑː.fɪl]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [fä.lɑː.fɪl]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [fä.lɔː.fil̥]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [fæ.lɒː.fel̥]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [fä.lɔ.fil]

Readings
Classical reading?	falāfil
Dari reading?	falāfil
Iranian reading?	falâfel
Tajik reading?	falofil

Noun

فلافل • (falâfel)

1. falafel

Synonyms

• طعمیه

Related terms

• فلفل (felfel)