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ful medames

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
ful medames
IPA
18
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
1
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

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.

Uncountable

Etymology

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”).

Origin

Word Breakdown

  • Root: فُول مُدَمَّس, ⲧⲱⲙⲥ, د م س

Usage

Inflected Forms

ful mudammas (alternative) foul madames (alternative) foule mudammas (alternative)

Questions

What does ful medames mean?
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.
Where does ful medames come from?
It is traced to Arabic.

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