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qatayef

qatayef noun: sweet dumplings filled with cream or nuts, traditionally served in Arab communities during Ramadan.

qatayef: sweet dumplings filled with cream or nuts, traditionally served in Arab communities during Ramadan
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Noun

qatayef pl (plural only)

  1. (plural, plural-only) Sweet dumplings filled with cream or nuts, traditionally served in Arab communities during Ramadan.
    • AS a young student at the multinational Aramco school in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, Fadi Jaber, a son of Palestinian refugees, always preferred his American classmates’ cupcakes, brownies and chocolate chip cookies to his mother’s pastries: knafah, qatayef and baklawah.2009 September 23, Anna Louie Sussman, “Yes, We Speak Cupcake”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 17 Jun 2022

Forms of qatayef

alternative formkatayef

Origin of qatayef

From dialectal Arabic قَطَايِف (qaṭāyif), from قَطَائِف (qaṭāʔif).

Questions about qatayef

What does qatayef mean?
Qatayef means sweet dumplings filled with cream or nuts, traditionally served in Arab communities during Ramadan.
What part of speech is qatayef?
Qatayef is a noun.

Words near qatayef in the dictionary

  1. Qatarization
  2. Qatarize
  3. Qatarized
  4. Qatarizes
  5. Qatarizing
  6. qatayef
  7. QATB
  8. Qathafi
  9. qathet
  10. qathet Regional District
  11. Qatifi

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