knafah

English

Noun

knafah (plural knafahs)

1. Alternative form of kanafeh
   • 2009 September 23, Anna Louie Sussman, “Yes, We Speak Cupcake”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     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.