Thread: eggroll

How do you say "eggroll" in Russian?
I looked it up in Multitran and it said idiot (идиот, глупец).

Originally Posted by kwatts59

How do you say "eggroll" in Russian?
I looked it up in Multitran and it said idiot (идиот, глупец).

Well my translator never calls me bad names and treats me with more respect than yours. It says .......яичный рулетик

I think the closest you can get is блинчик. And you have to add what is inside, e.g. блинчик с капустой...

Originally Posted by DDT

Originally Posted by kwatts59

How do you say "eggroll" in Russian?
I looked it up in Multitran and it said idiot (идиот, глупец).

Well my translator never calls me bad names and treats me with more respect than yours. It says .......яичный рулетик

It's because kwatts deserves it for asking stupid questions.

Ха. А он действительно ругается
Try egg roll, separately.

I was at a restaurant with a friend and he was quizzing me by having me name all the items on the menu. I did not know the term for "eggroll" and apparently there is no equivalent Russian term.
I will just make up my own term "яйцо ролл".

Originally Posted by kwatts59

I will just make up my own term "яйцо ролл".

не красиво. Try this: яйцокатание

Originally Posted by kalinka_vinnie

Try this: яйцокатание

Wouldn't that be a noun which refers to an action, rather than an object ?

Hmm... actually that is a good point.
Maybe this is better: яйцулон (сокр. от яйцорулон)

So is 'eggroll' (one word) the same thing as an 'egg roll' (two words), ie a roll with egg in it, or is it something else entirely?

If so, I've got a follow-up question.

After I have seen their google images I would say "(яичные) рулетики (с [insert the name of the filling here])", the parts in brackets are optional.

Edit: Oops, just noticed DDT said that already.

Originally Posted by kwatts59

I was at a restaurant with a friend and he was quizzing me by having me name all the items on the menu. I did not know the term for "eggroll" and apparently there is no equivalent Russian term.
I will just make up my own term "яйцо ролл".

You can't do that.

You can't stick two nouns together in the nominative together and expect it to mean anything else than two nouns.

яйцо ролл means egg roll, that is two things, an egg, and a roll.

e.g. car door is not машина дверь.

Because in English car is not a noun in this context, it is an adjective.

further examples are,

Computer nerd, Or

Football jock.

In english a noun can act as an adjective to modify another noun, in russian they can't.

Yes. Basically in English adjectives don't look any different from nouns, so we don't see them as adjectives, when in fact that's what they are.

I was taught that words like 'car door' can be made up of two nouns. Sometimes they are called noun-plus-noun words. Here are a few more:

database
tarffic lights
travel agent
airport
a big (adj) chicken (?) salad (?) sandwich (noun)
etc.

Originally Posted by mishau_

I was taught that words like 'car door' can be made up of two nouns. Sometimes they are called noun-plus-noun words. Here are a few more:
...

You were taught right. These are (noun+noun) words but the first one is like an adjective and it describes or tells us information about the second noun.