Definition of "falafel"

Lebanese restaurants are especially good for vegetarians, with falafel rolls (pitta bread stuffed with chickpea patties, hummus and tabbouleh) making an inexpensive, filling meal.

2003, Margo Daly, Rough guide to Australia, page 51

I ate lafa — falafel with all the regular stuffings and sauces wrapped in a pizza size pita instead of being stuffed in it. Etai ordered a regular falafel. My lafiz was twice the size of his falafel and although neither of us could finish the lafiz, we embarked on it together.

2003, Holly M. Moskowitz, Finding Falafel, page 58

I ate lafa — falafel with all the regular stuffings and sauces wrapped in a pizza size pita instead of being stuffed in it. Etai ordered a regular falafel. My lafiz was twice the size of his falafel and although neither of us could finish the lafiz, we embarked on it together.

2003, Holly M. Moskowitz, Finding Falafel, page 58

Here, close-cropped future soldiers would learn how to introduce themselves to strangers, the proper way to order a falafel and a Coke, how to shout Get out of the car.

2010, Reza Aslan, How to Win a Cosmic War: Confronting Radical Religions, page 161

They decided, sotto voce, to go out for a falafel. […] The falafel itself was incidental: it was the array of salds, pickled and fried vegetables, olives and sauces which one stuffed into the pita that made it such an adventure.

2012, Giveon Cornfield, Lilian, page 186

A beggar, his head swathed in rags, was eating a falafel, bits of cucumber falling out of the pita's corners. He looked askance as Mustafa lumbered by.

2013, Ruchama King Feuerman, In the Courtyard of the Kabbalist, New York Review of Books, page 218