rugelach

English

Rugelach

Alternative forms

• rugulach
• rugalach
• ruggalach
• ruggelach
• rogelach
• rugalah, rugala (singular)

Etymology

From Yiddish ראָגאַל (rogal) with plural suffix ־לעך (-lekh), from Polish rogal.

Noun

rugelach (plural rugelachs or rugelach)

1. A type of Jewish pastry, which may be filled with various fruit, nuts, chocolate, etc.
   • 2007 April 1, Jane Wollman Rusoff, “Funny Things Happened on the Way to the Condo”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     Then he ambles to his dressing room, where rugelach and carrot sticks sit on a coffee table for a postshow nosh.

Translations

pastry

• Hebrew: רוגעלך
• Yiddish: ראָגאַל m (rogal)