Meanings (ES + gloss)
falafel • faláfel
A Middle Eastern food in the form of balls made from chickpeas or broad beans and other ingredients, often served in a pita.
Lebanese restaurants are especially good for vegetarians, with falafel rolls (pitta bread stuffed with chickpea patties, hummus and tabbouleh) making an inexpensive, filling meal.
There's a stall at the market that sells fantastic falafel.
falafel • faláfel
A pita with falafel balls as a filling.
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.
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 s…
falafel • faláfel
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.
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