baker

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See also: Baker and bakër

English[edit]

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Etymology[edit]

From Middle English bakere, from Old English bæcere (baker), from Proto-Germanic *bakārijaz (baker), equivalent to bake +‎ -er. Cognate with Dutch bakker (baker), German Bäcker (baker), Norwegian Bokmål baker (baker), Swedish bagare (baker), Icelandic bakari (baker).

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Noun[edit]

baker (plural bakers)

  1. A person who bakes and sells bread, cakes and similar items.
    • 2006, Edwin Black, chapter 2, in Internal Combustion[1]:
      But through the oligopoly, charcoal fuel proliferated throughout London's trades and industries.  By the 1200s, brewers and bakers, tilemakers, glassblowers, pottery producers, and a range of other craftsmen all became hour-to-hour consumers of charcoal.
  2. A portable oven for baking.
  3. An apple suitable for baking.
    • 1975, Irma S. Rombauer, Marion Rombauer Becker, Joy of Cooking, page 129:
      Wealthys and McIntoshes are not good bakers.

Synonyms[edit]

  • (person who bakes): baxter (obsolete, Britain, Scotland), dougher (obsolete)

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Dutch[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

Short for bakermoeder.

Noun[edit]

baker f (plural bakers, diminutive bakertje n)

  1. (historical) A midwife; one who helps women in childbirth with deliveries.
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Etymology 2[edit]

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb[edit]

baker

  1. inflection of bakeren:
    1. first-person singular present indicative
    2. imperative

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Lacandon[edit]

Noun[edit]

baker

  1. bone

Norwegian Bokmål[edit]

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Etymology 1[edit]

From Danish bager, from Old Norse bakari, from Proto-Germanic *bakārijaz.

Noun[edit]

baker m (definite singular bakeren, indefinite plural bakere, definite plural bakerne)

  1. a baker (person who bakes professionally)
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Etymology 2[edit]

Noun[edit]

baker m pl

  1. indefinite plural of bak

Etymology 3[edit]

Verb[edit]

baker

  1. present tense of bake

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Norwegian Nynorsk[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

Verb[edit]

baker

  1. present of baka
  2. present of bake

Slovene[edit]

Chemical element
Cu
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Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Serbo-Croatian bàkar, from Ottoman Turkish باقیر (bakır), from Proto-Turkic *bakïr.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

bákər m inan

  1. copper (metal)

Inflection[edit]

The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.
Masculine inan., hard o-stem
nominative báker
genitive bákra
singular
nominative
(imenovȃlnik)
báker
genitive
(rodȋlnik)
dative
(dajȃlnik)
accusative
(tožȋlnik)
locative
(mẹ̑stnik)
bákru
instrumental
(orọ̑dnik)
bákrom

Further reading[edit]

  • baker”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran