falafels
- 1Plural of falafel.
The street vendor fried fresh falafels to order each afternoon.
She wrapped two falafels in flatbread with pickles and tahini.
Note
A plural that only the countable uses take: individual fried balls, or whole pitas stuffed with them. When speaking of the food as a dish, English keeps falafel uncountable (we had falafel for lunch, a plate of falafel), and adding -s there sounds wrong. Because both countable meanings share this one form, two falafels can mean two balls or two sandwiches. The surrounding words decide which.
falafels is a form of falafel
falafel, noun: A Middle Eastern food consisting of balls made from chickpeas or broad beans mixed with other ingredients, often served in a pita. Full entry
- Forms
- falafel also pluralfalafels plural
- Spelling
- falafel → falafels: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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