rugelach

Alternative forms

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

Etymology

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

Noun

rugelach (plural 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:

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