Kreplach definition
Small pockets of noodle dough filled with ground meat or cheese, usually boiled and served in soups.
pluralNoun
Small casings of dough filled with ground meat or cheese, etc., boiled, and served usually in soup.
pluralNoun
Origin of kreplach
- Yiddish kreplech pl. of krepel from German dialectal Kräppel fried pastry variant of German Krapfen from Middle High German krapfe from Old High German krāpfo hook (from their hooklike shape)
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
- From Yiddish קרעפּלאַך (kreplakh), a regional plural form of קרעפּל (krepl, “meat dumpling”).
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