Falafel

Quick meaning: Falafel is a noun meaning (uncountable) A Middle Eastern food in the form of balls made from chickpeas or broad beans and other ingredients, often served in a pita.

Meaning

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

More Meanings

1. (countable) A pita with falafel balls as a filling.
2. (countable) A single falafel ball.

Example Sentences

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

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

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.

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.

Word Forms

• falafels
• falafil

Synonyms for falafel

Depending on context, synonyms include felafel.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include felafel, fawaffle, pita, fatayer, aquafaba, fattoush.

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