Swiss roll

English

Vanilla Swiss roll

Etymology

Unclear. The cake is believed to have originated not in Switzerland, but elsewhere in Central Europe.

Pronunciation

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Noun

Swiss roll (plural Swiss rolls)

1. A type of sponge cake rolled up into a cylinder, typically but not exclusively with jam or chocolate filling.

Synonyms

• jelly roll
• log

Related terms

• nut roll

Descendants

• → Welsh: Swisrôl

Translations

type of sponge cake roll

• Arabic: سويسرول f (suisrul)
• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Catalan: braç de gitano m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 瑞士捲 / 瑞士卷 (seoi⁶ si⁶ gyun²)

  Mandarin: 瑞士捲 / 瑞士卷 (zh) (ruìshìjuǎn)

• Danish: roulade c
• Esperanto: rulbrioĉo, rulkuko
• Finnish: kääretorttu (fi)
• French: roulé (fr) m, rouleau de génoise
• Galician: brazo de xitano (gl) m
• German: Biskuitrolle (de) f, Biskuitroulade f
• Hebrew: גלילה f (glilá), רולדה (he) f (ruláda)
• Hungarian: rolád (hu)
• Icelandic: rúlluterta f
• Indonesian: please add this translation if you can
• Irish: rollóg Eilvéiseach f
• Italian: dolce arrotolato
• Japanese: ロールケーキ (ja) (rōrukēki)
• Korean: 롤케이크 (rolkeikeu)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: rullekake m or f

  Nynorsk: rullekake f

• Persian: please add this translation if you can
• Polish: rolada (pl) f
• Portuguese: rocambole (pt) m (Brazil), torta (pt) f (Portugal), garibáldi (pt) m (Brazil)
• Romanian: ruladă (ro) f
• Russian: руле́т (ru) m (rulét)
• Spanish: brazo de gitano m, brazo de reina m, pionono (es) m
• Swedish: rolad, rulltårta (sv) c
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: rulo pasta
• Ukrainian: please add this translation if you can
• Welsh: Swisrôl f