falafel.
A Middle Eastern food in the form of balls made from chickpeas or broad beans and other ingredients, often served in a pita.
Meaning & usage
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.
A pita with falafel balls as a filling.
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.
Where this word comes from
Borrowed from Arabic فَلَافِل (falāfil). Doublet of peepul and pepper.
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Last enriched 2026-09-10. Definitions are in English. Romanizations are shown when supplied by the source; syllable estimates are omitted for unsupported scripts.