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farfel

farfel noun: small pellet-shaped egg pasta in Ashkenazic Jewish cuisine, made instead out of matzah during Passover.

Noun

farfel (usually uncountable, plural farfels)

  1. (usually) Small pellet-shaped egg pasta in Ashkenazic Jewish cuisine, made instead out of matzah during Passover.

Forms of farfel

pluralfarfels

Origin of farfel

From Yiddish פֿאַרפֿל (farfl).

Questions about farfel

What does farfel mean?
Farfel means small pellet-shaped egg pasta in Ashkenazic Jewish cuisine, made instead out of matzah during Passover.
What part of speech is farfel?
Farfel is a noun.
What is the plural of farfel?
The plural of farfel is farfels.

Words near farfel in the dictionary

  1. farfalle
  2. farfalloni
  3. Farfan
  4. Farfans
  5. farfara
  6. farfel
  7. farfet
  8. farfetch
  9. farfetched
  10. farfetchedly
  11. farfetchedness

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