Dictionary

kipfel en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈkɪp.fəl/

Etymology

From German Kipfel, diminutive of Kipf (“wagon post”), from Old High German kipfa, chipf, from Latin cippus (“post”).

Meanings

1. A type of crescent-shaped biscuit or bread roll.
   • The son of a former houseowner in the Stumpergasse told me that the young Hitler would go every morning to a Jewish distiller (Branntweiner) near his flat to have a small breakfast there consisting always of ‘a tea and a kipfel’. 2003, Brigitte Hamann, edited by Hans Mommsen, The Third Reich Between Vision and Reality: New Perspectives on German History 1918–1945, Hitler and Vienna: The Truth about his Formative Years, page 35:
   • From this fine, sweet, almost cake-like yeast dough, rolled out fairly thin, can be made a variety of delicious desserts, coffee cakes, butter horns, turnovers, crescent rolls, schnecken, kipfel, or nut rolls. 2006, Edna Staebler, Food That Really Schmecks, page 167:
   • Bake the kipfel on wafers, in a very moderate oven. 1880, C. J. Peterson, Peterson's Magazine, volumes 77–78, page 314:

Forms

Hypernyms

crescent · viennoiserie · croissant · crescent roll

Relateds

rogalik

Translations (8)

de Kipfel (crescent-shaped biscuit) · ja キッフェルン (crescent-shaped biscuit) · it chifer (crescent-shaped biscuit) · de Kipfl (crescent-shaped biscuit) · it chifel (crescent-shaped biscuit) · pl rogal (crescent-shaped biscuit) · de Kipferl (crescent-shaped biscuit) · it chiffero (crescent-shaped biscuit)