Falafelとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Borrowed from Arabic فَلَافِل‎ (falāfil). Doublet of peepul and pepper.

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /fəˈlɑːfəl/, /fəˈlæfəl/, /fəˈlɒfəl/
  • (米国発音) IPA^(key): /fəˈlɑfəl/
  • 韻: -æfəl, -ɑːfəl, -ɒfəl
  • ハイフネーション: fa‧la‧fel

名詞

falafel (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 falafels または falafel)

1. (uncountable) A Middle Eastern food in the form of balls made from chickpeas or broad beans and other ingredients, often served in a pita.
   • 2003, Margo Daly, Rough guide to Australia, page 51:

     Lebanese restaurants are especially good for vegetarians, with falafel rolls (pitta bread stuffed with chickpea patties, hummus かつ tabbouleh) making an inexpensive, filling meal.

   • 2003, Holly M. Moskowitz, Finding Falafel, page 58:

     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 size of his falafel and although neither of us could finish the lafiz, we embarked on it together.

   There's a stall at the market that sells fantastic falafel.

2. (countable) A pita with falafel balls as a filling.
   • 2003, Holly M. Moskowitz, Finding Falafel, page 58:

     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 size of his falafel and although neither of us could finish the lafiz, we embarked on it together.

   • 2010, Reza Aslan, How to Win a Cosmic War: Confronting Radical Religions, page 161:

     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.

   • 2012, Giveon Cornfield, Lilian, page 186:

     They decided, sotto voce, to go out for a falafel. […] The falafel itself was incidental: it was the array of salds, pickled and fried vegetables, olives and sauces which one stuffed into the pita that made it such an adventure.

   • 2013, Ruchama King Feuerman, In the Courtyard of the Kabbalist, New York Review of Books, →ISBN, page 218:

     A beggar, his head swathed in rags, was eating a falafel, bits of cucumber falling out of the pita's corners. He looked askance as Mustafa lumbered by.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:falafel.
3. (countable) 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.

派生語

• fawaffle