bacon

See also bacón, and Bacon

English

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Etymology

From Middle English bacon (“meat from the back and sides of a pig”), from Anglo-Norman bacon, bacun (“ham, flitch, strip of lard”), from Old Low Frankish *bakō (“ham, flitch”), from Proto-Germanic *bakô, *bakkô (“back”), from Proto-Indo-European *bhAg- (“back, buttocks”). Cognate with Old High German bahho, bacho (“back, ham, side of bacon”) (compare Alemannic German Bache, Bachen), Old Saxon baco (“back”), Dutch bake (“side of bacon, ham”), Old English bæc (“back”). More at back.

Pronunciation

• enPR: bā'kən, IPA: /ˈbeɪkən/, X-SAMPA: /"beIk@n/
• Rhymes: -eɪkən

Noun

bacon (usually uncountable; plural bacons)

1. Cured meat from the sides, belly, or back of a pig.
2. Thin slices of the above in long strips.

Synonyms

• (Cut of meat from a pig): ham, pork

Derived terms

Terms derived from bacon

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Canadian bacon cottage bacon get the bacon bad peameal bacon Irish bacon save someone's bacon side bacon streaky bacon

Related terms

• back

Descendants

• Finnish: pekoni

Translations

cut of meat

• Arabic: باكون (ar) (bākūn) m, بيكون (ar) (baykūn) m
• Armenian: բեկոն (hy) (bekon) 
• Belarusian: бекон (be) (bekón) m 
• Bulgarian: бекон (bg) (bekon) m 
• Catalan: cansalada (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 煙肉 (yìn.yu̿k)

  Mandarin: 熏鹹肉 (cmn), 熏咸肉 (cmn) (xūn xiánròu), 培根 (cmn) (péigēn), 熏肉 (cmn) (xūnròu), 鹹肉 (cmn), 咸肉 (cmn) (xiánròu)

• Czech: slanina (cs) f
• Danish: flæsk (da) n
• Dutch: bacon (nl) m
• Esperanto: lardo (eo)
• Estonian: peekon (et)
• Finnish: kylki (fi)
• French: lardon (fr) m
• Georgian: ბეკონი (ka) (bekoni) 
• German: Speck (de) m
• Greek: μπέικον (el) (béikon) n 
• Hindi: बेकन (hi) (bekan)
• Icelandic: flesk (is) n, beikon (is) n
• Ido: lardo (io)
• Irish: bagún (ga) m
• Italian: pancetta (it) f
• Japanese: ベーコン (ja) (bēkon)
• Korean: 베이컨 (ko) (beikeon)

• Latin: laridum (la)
• Macedonian: сланина (mk) (slánina) f
• Malay: bakon (ms)
• Maltese: bejken
• Navajo: bisóodi, bisóodi bitsįʼ niheeshchʼiizhígíí
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: (røykt (nb)) flesk (nb) n, bacon (nb) n

  Nynorsk: (røykt (nn)) flesk (nn) n, bacon (nn) n

• Polish: boczek (pl) m, bekon (pl) m
• Portuguese: toucinho (pt), bacon (pt) m
• Romanian: bacon (ro) n, slănină (ro) f, lard (ro)
• Romansch: charnpiertg (rm) f
• Russian: бекон (ru) (bekón) m , ветчина (ru) (vetčiná) f  (ham)
• Scottish Gaelic: feòil-mhuice f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: сланина (sh) f

  Roman: slanina (sh) f

• Slovak: slanina (sk) f
• Slovene: slanina (sl) f
• Spanish: tocino (es) m, (Cuba, Spain) beicon m, (Colombia, Dominican Republic, Venezuela) tocineta f, (Argentina, Uruguay) panceta ahumada f, bacón (es) m
• Swedish: bacon (sv) n
• Turkish: domuz pastırması (tr)
• Ukrainian: бекон (uk) (bekón) m 
• Volapük: pined (vo), (pig) svinapined (vo), (cattle) bubapined (vo)
• Welsh: cig moch (cy)

thin slice of pork

• Bulgarian: бекон (bg) (bekon)
• Finnish: pekoni (fi)
• Greek: μπέικον (el) (béikon) n 
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: bacon (nb) n

  Nynorsk: bacon (nn) n

• Spanish: tocino (es) m
• Turkish: jambon (tr)

See also

• gammon
• guanciale
• hock
• pancetta
• green, in the sense of unsmoked
• smoked
• hog
• porcine
• rasher
• sow
• swine
• Bacon on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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French

Etymology

1899, "thin, smoked lard", from English bacon, from Middle English bacon (“meat from the back and sides of a pig”), from Old French bacon, bacun (“ham, strip of lard”), from Frankish *bakkō, from Proto-Germanic *bakō, *baką, *bakaz (“back”), from Proto-Indo-European *bhAg- (“back, buttocks”). Cognate with Old High German bahho, bacho (Alemannic German Bache, Bachen, “back, ham, side of bacon”), Old Saxon baco (“back”), Dutch bake (“side of bacon, ham”), Old English bæc (“back”). More at back.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /be.kɔn/, /be.kœn/

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Noun

bacon m (usually uncountable)

1. bacon

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Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

Borrowing from English bacon

Pronunciation

• IPA: /beːkən/, /bæjkən/, X-SAMPA: /be:k@n/, /b{jk@n/
• Rhymes: -eːkən, -æjkən

Noun

bacon n

1. bacon

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

Borrowing from English bacon

Pronunciation

• IPA: /beːkən/, /bæjkən/, X-SAMPA: /be:k@n/, /b{jk@n/
• Rhymes: -eːkən, -æjkən

Noun

bacon n

1. bacon

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Old French

Alternative forms

• baccon
• bachon
• bacun
• bascon

Noun

bacon m (oblique plural bacons, nominative singular bacons, nominative plural bacon)

1. pig; swine; hog
2. ham, or any meat from a pig

Descendants

• English: bacon
• French: bacon