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kadayif

kadayif is the alternative form of kataifi.

Meaning of kataifi

Noun

kataifi (uncountable)

  1. A very fine, vermicelli-like pastry used to make desserts in various Mediterranean and Middle Eastern cuisines, particularly Palestinian.
    • I much prefer the five-year-old Agnanti, at the upper end of the neighborhood near Astoria Park, which offers unusual regional dishes like ntaka, a Cretan bread salad, and mustard-dipped shrimp kataifi.2007 January 26, William Grimes, “Queens Now Has Less Feta, More Jellyfish”, in New York Times

Forms of kadayif

pluralkadayifs

Phrases with kadayif

Questions about kadayif

What is kadayif the alternative form of?
Kadayif is the alternative form of kataifi.

Words near kadayif in the dictionary

  1. kadarka
  2. kadarkas
  3. Kadars
  4. kadaya
  5. Kadayangan
  6. kadayif
  7. kadayifs
  8. Kadazan
  9. Kadazans
  10. Kaddaffi
  11. Kaddafi

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Adapted from Wiktionary: kadayif (page history and authors); kataifi (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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