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ful medames

ful medames noun: an originally Egyptian/Sudanese dish of cooked, mashed fava beans served with oil and spices (and sometimes other ingredients such as diced cucumbers and tomatoes), commonly eaten as a breakfast food, now also popular in neighbouring countries.

Noun

ful medames (uncountable)

  1. An originally Egyptian/Sudanese dish of cooked, mashed fava beans served with oil and spices (and sometimes other ingredients such as diced cucumbers and tomatoes), commonly eaten as a breakfast food, now also popular in neighbouring countries.

Forms of ful medames

alternative formful mudammas
alternative formfoul madames
alternative formfoule mudammas

Origin of ful medames

From Arabic فُول مُدَمَّس (fūl mudammas). The first part is فُول (fūl, “fava bean”); the second word is unlikely to be the Coptic word meaning “buried” Coptic ⲧⲱⲙⲥ (tōms, “to bury”) as has been claimed but rather the Arabic root Arabic د م س (d m s, “hidden, buried”).

Questions about ful medames

What does ful medames mean?
Ful medames means an originally Egyptian/Sudanese dish of cooked, mashed fava beans served with oil and spices (and sometimes other ingredients such as diced cucumbers and tomatoes), commonly eaten as a breakfast food, now also popular in neighbouring countries.
What part of speech is ful medames?
Ful medames is a noun.

Words near ful medames in the dictionary

  1. fukutin
  2. Fukuyama
  3. Fukuyaman
  4. Fukuyamas
  5. Fukūjōju Nyorai
  6. ful medames
  7. ful mudammas
  8. Fula
  9. Fulah
  10. Fulahs
  11. Fulan'gi

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