bread

English

Two loaves of bread (1).

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Etymology

From Middle English bred, breed, from Old English brēad (“fragment, bit, morsel, crumb", also "bread”), from Proto-Germanic *braudan (“cooked food, leavened bread”), from Proto-Indo-European *bherw-, *bhrew- (“to boil, seethe”) (see brew). Alternate etymology derives bread from *braudaz, *brauþaz ("broken piece, fragment"), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰera- (“to split, beat, hew, struggle”) (see brittle). Perhaps a conflation of the two. Cognate with Scots breid (“bread”), West Frisian brea (“bread”), Dutch brood (“bread”), German Brot (“bread”), Danish brød (“bread”), Swedish bröd (“bread”), Icelandic brauð (“bread”).

Pronunciation

• (Australia) enPR: brĕd, IPA: /brɛd/, SAMPA: /brEd/ or IPA: /breːd/, SAMPA: /bre:d/
• (UK, US) enPR: brĕd, IPA: /brɛd/, SAMPA: /brEd/

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• Rhymes: -ɛd
• Homophone: bred

Noun

bread (countable and uncountable; plural breads)

1. (uncountable) A foodstuff made by baking dough made from cereals
2. (countable) Any variety of bread
3. (slang) money

Synonyms

• (slang: money): dough, folding stuff, lolly, spondulicks, wonga

Usage notes

• loaf, slice, piece, hunk are some of the words used to count bread.

Derived terms

terms derived from bread

aerated bread Afghan bread altar bread Amish friendship bread ammunition bread anadama bread apple potato bread Armenian cracker bread artisan bread bake someone's bread banana bread Barbari bread barley bread batter bread bee-bread beer bread biscuit bread black bread blackfellow's bread Boston brown bread bread and butter bread and cheese bread and circuses bread and honey bread and milk Bread and Roses bread and salt bread and scrape bread and water bread and wine bread-artist bread bag bread-barge bread-basket, breadbasket bread-bearer bread beetle bread-berry, breadberry bread bin bread board, breadboard bread bowl breadbox bread-brake bread buttered on both sides bread-chipper bread clip bread-controller bread-corn, breadcorn breadcrumb bread-crust bomb bread dough bread-dust breaden bread-flake bread-fleigh bread flour breadfruit bread-god bread-head, breadhead breadish breadkind bread knife bread-jelly bread-lepe breadless bread line, breadline bread machine bread maker bread-meal bread mold, bread mould breadness bread-nut, breadnut bread of affliction bread of idleness bread of life bread of wheat bread palm bread pan bread pill bread poultice bread-powder bread pudding bread-purveyor bread roll bread-room, breadroom bread-root, breadroot, breadroot scurf pea bread sauce bread-science bread-study bread-skep bread starter bread-steward bread-stick, breadstick bread study bread-stuff, breadstuff bread tag bread-ticket bread-trade bread tree, bread-tree bread-unit bread upon the waters bread wheat bread-winner, breadwinner bread-worship breadwort bready break bread brown bread bush bread butterbread butter one's bread on both sides cake-bread caraway seed bread cast one's bread upon the waters cheat-bread cheese and bread chub bread ciabatta bread cinnamon bread clap-bread, clapbread cocket-bread corn bread, cornbread corn rye bread court holy bread cracked-wheat bread cracker bread cream of tartar bread crisp bread, crispbread Cuban bread cuckoo bread

curry bread daily bread dark bread date bread date-nut bread dika bread dole bread dry bread egg bread eggy bread embread fairy bread fancy bread flat bread, flatbread focaccia bread French bread fried bread fry bread, frybread full of bread garlic bread gingerbread gluten bread God's bread Graham bread granary bread Gyeongju bread hard bread hare's bread have one's bread buttered for life haver bread hog's bread holy bread horse-bread Hottentot's bread household bread Hwangnam bread in bad bread in-bread inbread Indian bread in good bread Irish soda bread Italian bread Jewish rye bread John's bread Kaffir bread, kaffir bread know which side one's bread is buttered (on) lava bread, laver bread, laverbread light bread limpa bread liquid bread loaf bread loaf of bread mandel bread marble rye bread mealie bread melon bread monkey bread, monkey's bread moulding of cockle bread, moulding of cocklety bread multigrain bread native bread new bread nut bread 'od's bread olive bread onion bread pan bread pilot bread pita bread, pitta bread plain bread pocket bread potato bread Pugliese bread pumpernickel bread pumpkin bread raised bread quick bread raisin bread ravel bread, ravelled bread riddle-bread Russian black bread Russian Easter bread rye bread sacramental bread sad bread Saint John's bread, St John's bread salt-rising bread sausage bread schiacciata bread science bread sea bread Seminole bread shew-bread, shewbread, show-bread, showbread ship bread shortbread singing bread skillet bread skillet corn bread sliced bread soda bread sour bread, sourbread sourdough bread sow bread, sow-bread, sowbread spoon bread, spoonbread sugar-bread sunflower bread Swedish limpa bread Swedish rye bread sweet bread sweetbread sweetcorn bread sweet rye bread swine-bread take bread and salt take the bread out of someone's mouth tea-bread temse bread, temsed bread therf-bread tiger bread to-bread twice-baked bread unleavened bread Veda bread wastel bread wheat bread white bread whole-grain bread, wholegrain bread whole meal bread, whole-meal bread, wholemeal bread whole wheat bread, whole-wheat bread, wholewheat bread yeast bread zatar bread

Translations

baked dough made from cereals

Abkhaz: мгьал (ab) (mg'al) Afar: gaqambo (aa) Afrikaans: brood Akkadian: 𒃻 (ak(a)lu, NINDA) Albanian: bukë (sq) f. Arabic: خبز (ar) (xubz) m., عيش (ar) (ʿayš) m. Aragonese: pan Aramaic: Hebrew: לחמא (lakhmā, lakhmo) m. Syriac: ܠܚܡܐ (lakhmā, lakhmo) m. Armenian: հաց (hy) (hac’) Aromanian: pãne Azeri: çörək (az), əkmək (az) Bashkir: икмәк (ikmək) Basque: ogi Belarusian: хлеб (be) (xleb) m. Bengali: রুটি (bn) (ruṭi) Breton: bara m. Bulgarian: хляб (bg) (hljab) m. Burmese: နံပြား (my) (nan bja:) Catalan: pa m. Central Atlas Tamazight: ⴰⵖⵔⵓⵎ (aghrum) m. Chinese: Mandarin: 麵包 (cmn), 面包 (cmn) (miànbāo) Coptic: ⲟⲉⲓⲕ (oeik) Crimean Tatar: ötmek Czech: chléb (cs) m., chleba (cs) m. Danish: brød (da) n. Dutch: brood (nl) n. Egyptian: t Esperanto: pano (eo) Estonian: leib (et) Ewe: abolo n. Finnish: leipä (fi) French: pain (fr) m. Friulian: pan Galician: pan Georgian: პური (ka) (puri) German: Brot (de) n. Greek: Ancient: ἄρτος (artos) Modern: ψωμί (el) n. (psomí), άρτος (el) m. (ártos) Greenlandic: iffiaq (kl) Gronings: stoet Hebrew: לחם (he) (lekhem) m. Hindi: रोटी (hi) (roṭī) f., नान (hi) (nān) f. Hungarian: kenyér (hu) Icelandic: brauð (is) n. Ido: pano Indonesian: roti (id) Interlingua: pan Inuktitut: ᕿᖂᔭᖅ Irish: arán (ga) m. Italian: pane (it) m. Japanese: パン (ja) (pan) Kalenjin: maghatiat Kannada: ಬ್ರೆಡ್ (kn) (breḍ) Karachay-Balkar: ётмек (ötmek) Kashubian: chléb Kazakh: нан (kk) (nan) Khmer: នំប៉័ង (km) (numpɑɑng) Kikuyu: mugate Korean: 빵 (ko) (ppang) Kurdish: nan (ku) m., نان (ku) Kyrgyz: нан (ky) (nan) Lao: ຂນົມປັງ (lo) (kʰá nŏm paŋ), ເຂົ້າຈີ່ (lo) (kʰȁo cīː)

Latgalian: maize f. Latin: panis (la) Latvian: maize (lv) Lithuanian: duona (lt) f. Lojban: nanba Luhya: kumkate, ekeki Macedonian: леб (mk) (leb) m. Malay: roti (ms) Maltese: ħobż (mt) m. Manx: arran (gv) m. Marathi: रोटी (rotī), भाकरी (bhākrī), पाव (pāv) Mongolian: талх (mn) (talh) Navajo: bááh Northern Sami: láibi Norwegian: brød (no) n. Novial: pane Occitan: pan (oc) m. Old Church Slavonic: хлѣбъ (xlěbŭ) m. Old English: brēad (ang) n., hlāf (ang) m. Old Irish: arán m. Ossetian: дзул (dzul) Persian: نان (fa) (nān) Phrygian: bekos Polabian: sťaibä f. Polish: chleb (pl) m. Portuguese: pão (pt) m. Quechua: t'anta Romani: manro m. Romanian: pâine (ro) f. Russian: хлеб (ru) (xleb) m. Samogitian: douna Santali: ᱯᱤᱴᱷᱟ (pitthaa) Sardinian: Campidanese: pani m. Scots: breid Scottish Gaelic: aran (gd) m. Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: хлеб (sh) m., хљеб (sh) m., крух (sh) m. Roman: hleb (sh) m., hljeb (sh) m., kruh (sh) m. Sicilian: pani Sinhalese: පාන් (si) (pān) Slovak: chlieb (sk) m. Slovene: kruh (sl) m. Sotho: bohobe (st) Spanish: pan (es) m. Swahili: mkate (noun 3/4) Swedish: bröd (sv) n. Tagalog: tinapay Tajik: нон (tg) (non) Tamil: ரொட்டி (ta) (roṭṭi) Tatar: икмәк (tt) (ikmäk), ашлык (tt) (aşlıq) Telugu: బ్రెడ్డు, రొట్టె Tetum: paun Thai: ขนมปัง (th) (kànŏm bpang) Turkish: ekmek (tr) Turkmen: çörek (tk) Tutelo: waksakpai Ukrainian: хліб (uk) (xlib) m. Urdu: روٹی (ur) (roṭī) f., نان (ur) (nān) f. Uyghur: نان (ug) Uzbek: non (uz) Vietnamese: bánh mì (vi) Võro: leib Walloon: pwin Welsh: bara (cy) m. West Frisian: bôle c., brea n.

countable: any variety of bread

Chinese: 麵包, 面包 (miànbāo) Ewe: abolo n. Finnish: leipä (fi) French: pain (fr) m. Greek: Ancient: ἄρτος (artos) Modern: ψωμί (el) n. (psomí), άρτος (el) m. (ártos) Icelandic: brauð (is) n. Macedonian: леб (mk) (leb) m. Maltese: ħobż (mt) pl.

Novial: pane Polish: pieczywo (pl) n. Romani: manro m. Russian: хлеб (ru) (xleb) m. Scots: breid Spanish: pan (es) m. Swahili: kipande cha mkate (sw) Turkish: ekmek (tr) Ukrainian: хліб (uk) (khlib) m.

slang: money

Bulgarian: пари (bg) (pari) pl. Dutch: poen (nl) m. Finnish: pätäkkä (fi) French: fric (fr) m., blé (fr) m. German: Kohle (de) f. Icelandic: peningur (is) m.

Latvian: kukuļ (lv) Russian: бабки (ru) (bábki) pl. Spanish: pasta (es) f. Swahili: mkati (sw) Turkish: ekmek parası (tr)

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Breton: bara m., baraoù (1), segal (collective) (rye) (3) Chiricahua: bań Jicarilla: bań Lipan: bań

Plains Apache: bań Slovak: prachy m. pl. (2) Western Apache: bań

Verb

bread (third-person singular simple present breads, present participle breading, simple past and past participle breaded)

1. (transitive) to coat with breadcrumbs

Derived terms

• breaded a
• breading n

Translations

to bread

Arabic: خبز (ar) Breton: palañ, paladuriñ Bulgarian: панирам (bg) Danish: panere (da) Finnish: leivittää (fi) French: paner (fr) German: panieren (de)

Hungarian: paníroz (hu) Icelandic: brauðmylsna (is) Persian: نانوایی (fa) (nânvâyi) Russian: панировать (ru) (panirovát') impf. and pf. Spanish: empanar (es), empanizar (es) Swahili: mkati (sw) Vietnamese: bột (vi)

See also

• loaf

Anagrams

• ardeb
• bared
• beard
• Breda
• debar, Debar
• Debra

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Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *braudan, whence also Old Frisian brād (West Frisian brea), Old Saxon brōd (Dutch brood), Old High German brōt (German Brot), Old Norse and Icelandic brauð (Swedish bröd).

Pronunciation

• IPA: /bræːɑd/

Noun

brēad n.

1. bit, piece, morsel
2. bread (foodstuff)

Descendants

• English: bread

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Spanish

Verb

bread (infinitive brear)

1. (Spain) Informal second-person plural (vosotros or vosotras) affirmative imperative form of brear.