falafel

noun
🔊/fəˈlæfl/
🔊/fəˈlɑːfl/
(also felafel)
[uncountable, countable]
(plural falafel, falafels)
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  1. a Middle Eastern dish consisting of small balls formed from chickpeas, usually eaten with flat bread; one of these balls炸豆丸子(中东食品,用鹰嘴豆泥制成,常与面包一起吃)Topics Foodc2
    Word Originfrom colloquial Egyptian Arabic falāfil, plural of Arabic fulful, filfil ‘pepper’.