Etymology

ful medames

Today it means: 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. Full definition →

Arabic فُول مُدَمَّس ← Coptic ⲧⲱⲙⲥ
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The story

  1. Arabic · derived fromد م س“hidden, buried”
  2. Coptic · derived fromⲧⲱⲙⲥ“to bury”
  3. Arabic · derived fromفُول مُدَمَّس
  4. English todayful medames

From Arabic فُول مُدَمَّس (fūl mudammas). The first part is فُول (fūl, “fava bean”); the second word is unlikely to be the Coptic word meaning “buried” Coptic ⲧⲱⲙⲥ (tōms, “to bury”) as has been claimed but rather the Arabic root Arabic د م س (d m s, “hidden, buried”, root).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.