baker

See also Baker, and bakër

English

Wikipedia

Etymology

bake + -er, cognate with Dutch bakker.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ˈbeɪ.kə(ɹ)/
• (US) IPA: /ˈbeɪ.kɚ/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -eɪkə(r)

Noun

baker (plural bakers)

1. A person who bakes and sells bread, cakes and similar items.
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2. A portable oven for baking.

Derived terms

• baker foot
• baker's
• baker's dozen
• baker's itch
• baker's salt
• baker's yeast
• bakery
• sergeant baker

Translations

person who bakes and sells bread, etc

• Arabic: خَبّاز (ar) (khabbaaz) m
• Basque: okin (eu)
• Bulgarian: пекар (bg) (pekar) m, хлебар (bg) (chlebar) m
• Catalan: forner (ca) m
• Chechen: кхаллардоттург
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 麵包師 (cmn), 面包师 (cmn)

• Czech: pekař (cs) m
• Danish: bager (da) c
• Dutch: bakker (nl) m
• Esperanto: panisto (eo), panistino (eo)
• Estonian: pagar (et)
• Faroese: bakari (fo) m
• Finnish: leipuri (fi)
• French: boulanger (fr) m, boulangère (fr) f
• German: Bäcker (de) m, Bäckerin (de) f
• Greek: αρτοποιός (el) (artopoiós) m, φούρναρης (el) (foúrnaris) m
• Hebrew: אופה (he) (offe) m, אופה (he) (ofa) f
• Hungarian: pék (hu)
• Icelandic: bakari (is) m
• Italian: panettiere (it) m, panettiera (it) f, fornaio (it) m, fornaia (it) f
• Japanese: パン屋 (ja) (ぱんや, pan'ya), パン屋さん (ja) (ぱんやさん, pan'ya-san)
• Jèrriais: boulandgi m
• Kurdish:

  Sorani: نانه‌وا, نانکار

• Latin: pistor (la) m, pānifex (la) m
• Macedonian: пекар (mk) (pékar) m, фурнаџија (mk) (furnádžija) m
• Maltese: furnar (mt) m, furnara (mt) f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: baker (nb) m

  Nynorsk: bakar (nn) m

• Old English: bæcere (ang) m
• Polish: piekarz (pl) m
• Portuguese: padeiro (pt) m (bread), pasteleiro (pt) m (cakes)
• Romanian: brutar (ro), (rare, dated) pâinar (ro)
• Russian: хлебопёк (ru) (χl'ebop'ók) m, пекарь (ru) (p'ékar') m
• Scottish Gaelic: fuineadair (gd) m, bèicear (gd) m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: пе̏ка̄р (sh) m, пекарица (sh) f

  Roman: pȅkār (sh) m, pȅkarica (sh) f

• Slovak: pekár (sk) m, pekárka (sk) f
• Slovene: pek (sl)
• Spanish: panadero (es) m
• Swedish: bagare (sv)
• Turkish: fırıncı (tr)
• Vilamovian: bekier m, bekieryn m
• Volapük: (male or female) bakan (vo), (male) hibakan (vo), (female) jibakan (vo)
• Walloon: boledjî (wa) m, boledjresse (wa) f
• Welsh: pobydd (cy)
• Yiddish: בעקער (yi) (beker) m

See also

• Wikipedia article on bakers

Anagrams

• brake
• break

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Dutch

Noun

baker f (plural bakers, diminutive bakertje)

1. lit. 'swaddler': Person who helps midwife with child deliveries.

Verb

baker

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

Anagrams

• brake

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Slovene

Etymology

From Serbo-Croatian bàkar, from Ottoman Turkish باقیر (bakır).

Noun

baker m inan.

1. copper