Falafel vs Felafel - What's the difference?
falafel | felafel |
(uncountable) A Middle Eastern food in the form of balls made from chickpeas and other ingredients. Often served in a pita.
(countable) A pita with falafel balls inside.
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(countable) A single falafel ball.
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As nouns the difference between falafel and felafel
is that falafel is a Middle Eastern food in the form of balls made from chickpeas and other ingredients. Often served in a pita while felafel is an alternative spelling of lang=en.falafel
English
(wikipedia falafel)Noun
- There's a stall at the market that sells fantastic falafel .
page 51,
- Lebanese restaurants are especially good for vegetarians, with falafel rolls (pitta bread stuffed with chickpea patties, hummus and tabbouleh) making an inexpensive, filling meal.
- The stallholder puts salad into an open pitta bread, followed by the four falafels and then liberally covers them with hummus.
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felafel
English
Noun
(en noun)page 34,
- Sometimes I would go down to Allenby Street, where all the felafel' stands were, and have a ' felafel .
He Died with A '''Felafelin His Hand , Duffy & Snellgrove, ISBN 9781875989034.
page 78,
- Lightly toast pitta breads, split and fill each half with three felafels .