qatayef

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

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

Noun

qatayef pl (plural only)

  1. Sweet dumplings filled with cream or nuts, traditionally served in Arab communities during Ramadan.
    • 2009 September 23, Anna Louie Sussman, “Yes, We Speak Cupcake”, in The New York Times‎[1], archived from the original on 17 June 2022:
      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.
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