bake

English

Etymology

From Middle English baken, from Old English bacan (“to bake”), from Proto-Germanic *bakaną (“to bake”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰōg- (“to roast, bake”). Cognate with West Frisian bakke (“to bake”), Dutch bakken (“to bake”), Low German backen (“to bake”), German backen (“to bake”), Danish bage (“to bake”), Swedish baka (“to bake”), Ancient Greek φώγω (phōgō, “roast”, v), Persian پختن (pokhtan, “to bake”, v).

Pronunciation

• IPA: /beɪk/, X-SAMPA: /beIk/

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• Rhymes: -eɪk

Verb

bake (third-person singular simple present bakes, present participle baking, simple past baked or book (dialectal, Northern England), past participle baked or baken (dialectal, Northern England))

1. (transitive or intransitive) To cook (something) in an oven.

   I baked a delicious cherry pie.

   She's been baking all day to prepare for the dinner.

2. (transitive) To dry by heat.
3. (intransitive) To prepare food by baking it.
4. (intransitive) To be baked to heating or drying.

   The clay baked in the sun.

5. (intransitive, figuratively) To be hot.

   It is baking in the greenhouse.

   I'm baking after that workout in the gym.

6. (intransitive, slang) To smoke marijuana.
7. To harden by cold.
   • Shakespeare

     The earth […] is baked with frost.

   • Spenser

     They bake their sides upon the cold, hard stone.

Synonyms

• See also Wikisaurus:cook

Derived terms

• baked
• bake-off
• baking
• in a bake
• half-baked

Related terms

• roast

Translations

to cook in an oven

• Albanian: pjek (sq)
• Arabic: خبز (ar) (xabaza)
• Aromanian: coc (rup)
• Belarusian: пячы (be) (pjačý) impf., запякаць (be) (zapjakácʹ) impf.
• Bulgarian: пека (bg) (peká) impf.
• Catalan: fornejar (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 烤 (cmn) (kǎo), 烘 (cmn) (hōng), 焙燒 (cmn), 焙烧 (cmn) (bèishāo), 烘烤 (cmn) (hōngkǎo)

• Czech: péci (cs), péct (cs)
• Danish: bage (da)
• Dutch: bakken (nl)
• Finnish: paistaa uunissa (fi) (to bake in oven), leipoa (fi) (to produce baked goods)
• French: cuire (fr) (au four)
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: backen (de)
• Greek: ψήνω (el) (psíno)
• Hungarian: süt (hu)
• Italian: cuocere (it) (al forno)
• Japanese: 焼く (ja) (やく, yaku)
• Jèrriais: fouângner

• Latgalian: cept
• Latvian: cept (lv)
• Lithuanian: kepti (lt)
• Macedonian: пече (mk) (péče)
• North Frisian: baag
• Polish: piec (pl) impf.
• Portuguese: cozer (pt), assar (pt)
• Romanian: coace (ro)
• Russian: печь (ru) (pečʹ) impf., испечь (ru) (ispéčʹ) pf., выпекать (ru) (vypekátʹ) impf., выпечь (ru) (výpečʹ) pf.
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: пећи (sh) impf.

  Roman: peći (sh) impf.

• Slovak: piecť (sk) impf.
• Slovene: peči (sl) impf.
• Spanish: hornear (es)
• Swedish: baka (sv)
• Turkish: fırınlamak (tr)
• Ukrainian: пекти (uk) (pektý) impf., випікати (uk) (vypikáty) impf.
• Volapük: bakön (vo)
• Yiddish: באַקן (yi) (bakn)

to dry by heat

• Bulgarian: суша на слънце (bg) (suša na slănce)
• Danish: tørre (da)
• Dutch: bakken (nl)
• Finnish: kuivata lämmöllä (fi)
• German: trocknen (de)

• Hungarian: pörköl (hu), szárít (hu)
• Italian: cuocere (it)
• Japanese: 焼く (ja) (やく, yaku)
• Polish: wypalać (pl)
• Russian: сушить (ru) (sušítʹ) impf., высушить (ru) (výsušitʹ) pf.
• Turkish: kurutmak (tr)

to be hot

• Dutch: bakken (nl)
• Finnish: hehkua (fi)

• Greek: ψήνομαι (el) (psínomai)
• Hungarian: megsül (hu)

to become baked

• Bulgarian: изпичам се (bg) (ispičam se)
• Danish: bage (da)
• Dutch: bakken (nl)
• Finnish: paistua (fi), leipoutua (fi)
• Greek: ψήνομαι (el) (psínomai)
• Hungarian: sül (hu)

• Italian: cuocersi (it), infornare (it)
• Japanese: 焼ける (ja) (yakeru)
• Persian: پختن (fa)
• Russian: печься (ru) (péčʹsja) impf., испечься (ru) (ispéčʹsja) pf.
• Swedish: bakas (sv)

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• Cantonese: 焗 (gu̿k)
• Hebrew: לאפות (he) (le'efot)
• Icelandic: baka (is)
• Korean: 굽다 (ko) (gubda, gup-), 볶다 (ko) (bokkda)
• Latin: coquere (la)
• Norwegian: baka (no)

• Old English: bacan (ang)
• Old Norse: baka
• Portuguese: cozer (pt), (Brazil) cozinhar (pt)
• Spanish: hornear (es), enhornar (es)
• Swedish: baka (sv), grädda (sv)
• Thai: อบ (th) (aab)

Noun

bake (plural bakes)

1. (UK, New Zealand) Any of various baked dishes resembling casserole.
   • 2009, Rosalind Peters, Kate Pankhurst, Clive Boursnell, Midnight Feast Magic: Sleepover Fun and Food

     If you happen to have small, heat-proof glass or ceramic pots in your kitchen (known as ramekins) then you can make this very easy pasta bake in fun-size, individual portions.

2. The act of cooking food by baking.

Translations

baked dish resembling casserole

• Finnish: laatikko (fi)

act of baking

• Finnish: paistaminen (fi), leivonta (fi), leipominen (fi)

Anagrams

• beak

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Basque

Etymology

Latin pax.

Noun

bake

1. peace

Declension

"bake" (inanimate noun) declension indefinite singular plural absolutive bake bakea bakeak ergative bakek bakeak bakeek dative bakeri bakeari bakeei genitive bakeren bakearen bakeen comitative bakerekin bakearekin bakeekin causative bakerentzat bakearentzat bakeentzat benefactive bakerengatik bakearengatik bakeengatik instrumental bakez bakeaz bakeez inessive baketan bakean bakeetan locative baketako bakeko bakeetako allative baketara bakera bakeetara terminative baketaraino bakeraino bakeetaraino directive baketarantz bakerantz bakeetarantz destinative baketarako bakerako bakeetarako ablative baketatik baketik bakeetatik partitive bakerik - - prolative baketzat - -

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Middle English

Alternative forms

• bak
• bakke (main article)
• balke

Noun

bake (plural bakes)

1. bat (flying rodent)