falafel
English
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Arabic فَلَافِل (falāfil). Doublet of peepul and pepper.
Pronunciation
edit- (UK) IPA(key): /fəˈlɑːfəl/, /fəˈlæfəl/, /fəˈlɒfəl/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
- (US) IPA(key): /fəˈlɑfəl/
- Rhymes: -æfəl, -ɑːfəl, -ɒfəl
- Hyphenation: fa‧la‧fel
Noun
editfalafel (countable and uncountable, plural falafels or falafel)
- (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.
- (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.
- (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.
Derived terms
editTranslations
editMiddle Eastern food
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pita with falafel balls inside
single falafel ball
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Danish
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Arabic فَلَافِل (falāfil).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editfalafel c (singular definite falaflen, plural indefinite falafler)
- falafel (single ball)
Declension
editDeclension of falafel
common gender |
Singular | Plural | ||
---|---|---|---|---|
indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | falafel | falaflen | falafler | falaflerne |
genitive | falafels | falaflens | falaflers | falaflernes |
Dutch
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Arabic فَلَافِل (falāfil).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editfalafel m (plural falafels, diminutive falafeltje n)
Finnish
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Arabic فَلَافِل (falāfil).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editfalafel
Declension
editInflection of falafel (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | falafel | falafelit | |
genitive | falafelin | falafelien | |
partitive | falafelia | falafeleja | |
illative | falafeliin | falafeleihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | falafel | falafelit | |
accusative | nom. | falafel | falafelit |
gen. | falafelin | ||
genitive | falafelin | falafelien | |
partitive | falafelia | 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. |
Further reading
edit- “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 2023-07-02
French
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Arabic فَلَافِل (falāfil).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editfalafel m (plural falafels)
Polish
editEtymology
editInternationalism; compare English falafel, French falafel, German Falafel, ultimately from Arabic فَلَافِل (falāfil).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editfalafel m animal or m inan
- falafel (Middle Eastern food in the form of balls made from chickpeas or broad beans and other ingredients, often served in a pita)
Declension
editDeclension of falafel
singular | plural | |
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nominative | falafel | falafele/falafle |
genitive | falafela/falafla | falafelów/falaflów/falafeli/falafli |
dative | falafelowi/falaflowi | falafelom/falaflom |
accusative | falafel/falafela/falafla | falafele/falafle |
instrumental | falafelem/falaflem | falafelami/falaflami |
locative | falafelu/falaflu | falafelach/falaflach |
vocative | falafelu/falaflu | falafele/falafle |
Further reading
editSpanish
editAlternative forms
edit- faláfel (following the Arabic stress)
Etymology
editBorrowed from Arabic فَلَافِل (falāfil).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editfalafel m (plural falafeles)
Further reading
edit- “falafel”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28
Swedish
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Arabic فَلَافِل (falāfil).
Pronunciation
edit- Rhymes: -affel
- Hyphenation: fa‧la‧fel
Noun
editfalafel c
- falafel
- Falafel görs på kikärtor
- Falafel is made from chickpeas
Declension
editnominative | genitive | ||
---|---|---|---|
singular | indefinite | falafel | falafels |
definite | falafeln | falafelns | |
plural | indefinite | falaflar | falaflars |
definite | falaflarna | falaflarnas |
Derived terms
editSee also
edit- kikärtor (“chickpeas”)
References
editCategories:
- English terms borrowed from Arabic
- English terms derived from Arabic
- English doublets
- English 3-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
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- Rhymes:English/æfəl
- Rhymes:English/æfəl/3 syllables
- Rhymes:English/ɑːfəl
- Rhymes:English/ɒfəl
- Rhymes:English/ɒfəl/2 syllables
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- English countable nouns
- English nouns with irregular plurals
- English indeclinable nouns
- English terms with usage examples
- English terms with quotations
- en:Foods
- Danish terms borrowed from Arabic
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- Danish lemmas
- Danish nouns
- Danish common-gender nouns
- da:Foods
- Dutch terms borrowed from Arabic
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- Dutch lemmas
- Dutch nouns
- Dutch nouns with plural in -s
- Dutch masculine nouns
- nl:Foods
- Finnish terms borrowed from Arabic
- Finnish terms derived from Arabic
- Finnish 3-syllable words
- Finnish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Finnish/ɑlɑfel
- Rhymes:Finnish/ɑlɑfel/3 syllables
- Finnish lemmas
- Finnish nouns
- Finnish risti-type nominals
- fi:Foods
- French terms borrowed from Arabic
- French terms derived from Arabic
- French 3-syllable words
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- French lemmas
- French nouns
- French countable nouns
- French masculine nouns
- Polish internationalisms
- Polish terms derived from Arabic
- Polish 3-syllable words
- Polish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Polish terms with audio pronunciation
- Rhymes:Polish/afɛl
- Rhymes:Polish/afɛl/3 syllables
- Polish lemmas
- Polish nouns
- Polish masculine nouns
- Polish animal nouns
- Polish inanimate nouns
- Polish nouns with multiple animacies
- pl:Foods
- pl:Middle East
- Spanish terms borrowed from Arabic
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- Rhymes:Spanish/el
- Rhymes:Spanish/el/3 syllables
- Spanish lemmas
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- Spanish countable nouns
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- es:Foods
- Swedish terms borrowed from Arabic
- Swedish terms derived from Arabic
- Rhymes:Swedish/affel
- Swedish lemmas
- Swedish nouns
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- sv:Foods