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means A syrupy South Asian sweet made by deep-frying coils of fermented batter, then soaking them in sugar syrup until they're sticky through and through.

from The word traces back through Hindi-Urdu जलेबी/جلیبی, itself likely borrowed from Arabic 'zalābiya' (a fried sweet soaked in syrup), which in turn connects to Persian forms of the word. The dish and its name traveled widely across the medieval Islamic world and into South Asia along trade and culinary exchange routes, picking up local pronunciations as it went — which is why cousins of jalebi show up, under different names, from the Middle East to the Balkans.