Phrase guide

puff pastry

noun · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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noun

Meaning 1

A light, flaky pastry that is made of alternating buttery and floury dough layers by repeatedly folding the rolled pastry into many layers.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

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Across languages

Translations

75 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Afrikaans: blaardeeg — light, flaky pastry
  • Arabic: عجينة منتفخة (ʕajīna muntafiḵa) — light, flaky pastry
  • Armenian: շերտավոր խմոր (šertavor xmor) — light, flaky pastry
  • Asturian: hoxaldre — light, flaky pastry
  • Basque: hostore — light, flaky pastry
  • Catalan: pasta de full — light, flaky pastry
  • Catalan: pasta fullada — light, flaky pastry
  • Cebuano: ohaldre — light, flaky pastry
  • Chinese Cantonese: 酥皮 (sou1 pei4) — light, flaky pastry
  • Chinese Cantonese: 擘酥皮 (maak3 sou1 pei4) — light, flaky pastry
  • Chinese Mandarin: 酥皮 (sūpí) — light, flaky pastry
  • Chinese Mandarin: 千層餅 /千层饼 (qiāncéngbǐng) — light, flaky pastry
  • Chinese Mandarin: 鬆餅 /松饼 (sōngbǐng) — light, flaky pastry
  • Chinese Mandarin: 松塔餅 /松塔饼 (sōngtǎbǐng) — light, flaky pastry
  • Chinese Mandarin: 千層酥餅 /千层酥饼 (qiāncéngsūbǐng) — light, flaky pastry
  • Czech: listové těsto — light, flaky pastry
  • Danish: butterdejskage — light, flaky pastry
  • Danish: butterdej — light, flaky pastry
  • Danish: smørdej — light, flaky pastry
  • Dutch: bladerdeeg — light, flaky pastry
  • Dutch: korstdeeg — light, flaky pastry
  • Esperanto: foliigita pasto — light, flaky pastry
  • Finnish: lehikäinen — light, flaky pastry
  • Finnish: lehtitaikinaleivonnainen — light, flaky pastry
  • French: pâte feuilletée — light, flaky pastry
  • Galician: follado — light, flaky pastry
  • Galician: masa follada — light, flaky pastry
  • German: Blätterteig — light, flaky pastry
  • Greek: σφολιάτα (sfoliáta) — light, flaky pastry
  • Ancient Greek: φυστή (phustḗ) — light, flaky pastry
  • Gujarati: પફ પેસ્ટ્રી (paph pesṭrī) — light, flaky pastry
  • Hebrew: בְּצֵק עָלִים (b'tzék alím) — light, flaky pastry
  • Hindi: छिछोरा आदमी (chichorā ādmī) — light, flaky pastry
  • Hungarian: leveles tészta — light, flaky pastry
  • Icelandic: smjördeig — light, flaky pastry
  • Indonesian: keripik pastel — light, flaky pastry
  • Irish: puth-thaosrán — light, flaky pastry
  • Italian: pasta sfoglia — light, flaky pastry
  • Japanese: パイ生地 (pai kiji) — light, flaky pastry
  • Japanese: パフペストリー (pafupēsutorī) — light, flaky pastry
  • Japanese: 折り込みパイ生地 (orikomi pai kiji) — light, flaky pastry
  • Korean: 퍼프 페이스트리 (peopeu peiseuteuri) — light, flaky pastry
  • Latvian: kārtainā mīkla — light, flaky pastry
  • Lithuanian: sluoksniuota tešla — light, flaky pastry
  • Macedonian: лиснато тесто (lisnato testo) — light, flaky pastry
  • Malay: pastri lapis — light, flaky pastry
  • Norwegian Bokmål: butterdeig — light, flaky pastry
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: butterdeig — light, flaky pastry
  • Persian: خمیر هزارلا — light, flaky pastry
  • Polish: ciasto francuskie — light, flaky pastry
  • Polish: ciasto listkowe — light, flaky pastry
  • Portuguese: massa folhada — light, flaky pastry
  • Portuguese: folhado — light, flaky pastry
  • Romanian: foitaj — light, flaky pastry
  • Russian: слоёное те́сто (slojónoje tésto) — light, flaky pastry
  • Russian: сло́йка (slójka) — light, flaky pastry
  • Scottish Gaelic: sgrath-bhreathach — light, flaky pastry
  • Serbo-Croatian: лѝснато тије̑сто — light, flaky pastry
  • Serbo-Croatian: лѝснато те̑сто — light, flaky pastry
  • Serbo-Croatian: lìsnato tijȇsto — light, flaky pastry
  • Serbo-Croatian: lìsnato tȇsto — light, flaky pastry
  • Slovak: lístkové cesto — light, flaky pastry
  • Slovene: listnato testo — light, flaky pastry
  • Lower Sorbian: warstkate śěsto — light, flaky pastry
  • Upper Sorbian: worštowane ćěsto — light, flaky pastry
  • Spanish: hojaldre — light, flaky pastry
  • Swedish: bladdeg — light, flaky pastry
  • Swedish: smördeg — light, flaky pastry
  • Swedish: smördegsbröd — light, flaky pastry
  • Tagalog: uhaldres — light, flaky pastry
  • Tagalog: ohaldre — light, flaky pastry
  • Turkish: puf böreği — light, flaky pastry
  • Ukrainian: листкове тісто (lystkove tisto) — light, flaky pastry
  • Vietnamese: bột nhào nở — light, flaky pastry
  • Welsh: crwst pwff — light, flaky pastry