ful medames

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.

Origin

• From Arabic فُول مُدَمَّس. The first part is فُول; the second may be a Coptic word meaning “buried”, from Coptic ⲧⲱⲙⲥ ("to bury"), Fayyumic variant ⲧⲁⲙⲉⲥ.