What does "rugelach" mean?

A type of Jewish pastry, which may be filled with various fruit, nuts, chocolate, etc.

What is a synonym for "rugelach"?

Common synonyms include: ruggelach, rugulah, rugulah.

//ˈruːɡələx// noun

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Noun

1
A type of Jewish pastry, which may be filled with various fruit, nuts, chocolate, etc.
"Then he ambles to his dressing room, where rugelach and carrot sticks sit on a coffee table for a postshow nosh."
2
pastry made with a cream cheese dough and different fillings (as raisins and walnuts and cinnamon or chocolate and walnut and apricot preserves) wordnet

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

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

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