فلافل

Arabic

Etymology

Broken plural of فِلْفِل (filfil); which in turn, was borrowed from Classical Persian (pilpil), from Sanskrit पिप्पलि (pippali, “long pepper”).

Noun

فَلَافِل • (falāfil) pl

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
plural	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

→ 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)
→ Classical Persian: فَلَافِل (falāfil)
→ Czech: falafel
→ Danish: falafel
→ Dutch: falafel
→ English: falafel, felafel, falafil (less common)
→ Esperanto: falafloj
→ Finnish: falafel
→ French: falafels, falafel
→ German: Falafel
→ Greek: φαλάφελ (faláfel), φελάφελ (feláfel)
→ Hebrew: פָלָאפֶל (faláfel)
→ Hindi: फ़लाफ़ल (falāfal), फ़लाफ़िल (falāfil)
→ 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)
→ Odia: ଫଳାଫଳ (phaḷāphaḷa)
→ 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)
→ Urdu: فَلَافِل (falāfil)
→ Yiddish: פֿאַלאַפֿעל (falafel)

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic فَلَافِل (falāfil), broken plural of فِلْفِل (filfil); see فلفل (filfil / felfel) for more.

Pronunciation

(Classical Persian) IPA^(key): /fa.laː.ˈfil/

(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 • (falāfil / falâfel) (Tajik spelling фалофил)

falafel