A type of traditional North African or Middle Eastern pastry or cake, sometimes made with nuts and honey.
Likely from Arabic origins, though the exact etymological path is uncertain; possibly related to words meaning 'light' or 'fluffy' in various Semitic languages.
Food words are among the hardest to trace etymologically because recipes traveled long before writing did—'afifi' might be centuries old but we can only guess at its journey from kitchen to kitchen.
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