Vermicelli is a traditional type of pasta round in section similar to spaghetti.In Italy vermicelli is slightly thicker than spaghetti, but in the United States it is instead slightly thinner. Vermicelli is also used to describe various types of thin noodles in Asia.In countries of the Indian and Pakistani Subcontinent, seviyan resembles vermicelli and is known by various local names such as, shemai in Bengali, seviyan in Hindi, Urdu and Punjabi, vaLavaT/shevaya in Marathi, simei in Odia, sev in Gujarati, shavige in Kannada, sevalu or semiya in Telugu, and semiya in Tamil and Malayalam.