Falafel

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from colloquial Egyptian Arabic falāfil, plural of Arabic fulful, filfil ‘pepper’.

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

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falafel (n.)

also felafel, popular Middle-Eastern food, by 1951 as a traveler's word, not common or domestic in English until 1970s; from Arabic falafil, said to mean "crunchy."