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A slice of cake (1).

[edit] Etymology

From Middle English cake, from Old Norse kaka (compare Norwegian kake, Icelandic/Swedish kaka, Danish kage), from Proto-Germanic *kakan, from Proto-Indo-European *gog (“ball-shaped object”) (compare Lithuanian gúoge ‘head of cabbage’). Related to cookie.

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enPR: kāk, IPA: /keɪk/, SAMPA: /keIk/
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Rhymes: -eɪk

[edit] Noun

cake (countable and uncountable; plural cakes)

A rich, sweet dessert food, typically made of flour, sugar and eggs and baked in an oven, and often covered in icing.
A block of any of various dense materials.

A cake of soap.
(slang) A trivially easy task or responsibility; from a piece of cake.
(slang) money

[edit] Usage notes

In British usage, a biscuit is distinct from a cake; the former is generally hard but becomes soft when stale, whereas the latter is generally soft but becomes hard when stale.

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Derived terms

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(dessert): gâteau
(block): block
(easy task): see piece of cake

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a sweet dessert

Afrikaans: koek (af)
Albanian: tortë (sq) f., kek (sq)
Arabic: كعكة (ar) (ká3ka) f.
Azeri: tort (az)
Basque: pastela (eu)
Bengali: পিঠা (bn) (piṭhā)
Bulgarian: торта (bg) f.
Catalan: pastís (ca) m.
Chinese:

Mandarin: 蛋糕 (cmn) (dàngāo)

Min Nan: 雞卵糕 (ke-nn̄g-ko or kue-nn̄g-ko)
Croatian: kòlāč (hr) m.
Czech: dort (cs) m.
Danish: kage (da) c., lagkage (da)
Dutch: taart (nl) (more elaborate, with cream or fruit), cake (nl) m. (more sober), gebak (nl) n.
Esperanto: kuko (eo), torto (eo)
Finnish: kakku (fi)
French: gâteau (fr) m. (large cake served in slices, or a small, individual cake), pâtisserie (fr) f. (small, individual cake)
German: Kuchen (de) m.
Greek:

Ancient: πέμμα

Modern: τούρτα (el) f. (toúrta), κέικ (el) n. (kéik)
Guaraní: mbujape he'ẽ
Gujarati: કેક (gu) (kēka) f.
Hebrew: עוּגָה (he) (uga) f.
Hungarian: torta (hu), sütemény (hu), tészta (hu)
Icelandic: kaka (is) f.
Ido: kuko (io)
Interlingua: torta (ia)
Irish: císte (ga) m.
Italian: torta (it) f. (large cake served in slices), pasticcino m. (small, individual cake), dolce (it) m.
Japanese: 菓子な: lit. a "cake, ケーキ (ja) (kēki)
Kannada: ಕೇಕ್ (kn) (kēk)

Korean: 과자 (ko) (gwaja) (菓子), 케이크 (ko) (keikeu), 케잌 (ko) (keik) (North Korea)
Latin: placenta (la) f.
Latvian: kūka (lv), torte (lv)
Lithuanian: pyragaitis (lt) m., pyragas (lt) m., tortas (lt) m.
Luhya: ekeki
Luxembourgish: Kuch (lb) m.
Macedonian: торта (mk) (tórta) f., колач (mk) (koláč or kóláč) m.
Malay: kek (ms)
Mapudungun: kochü kofke
Norwegian: kake (no) m.
Occitan: còca (oc) f.
Old Norse: kaka
Polish: ciasto (pl) n., ciastko (pl) n.
Portuguese: bolo (pt) m.
Quechua: peqachu
Romanian: tort (ro)
Russian: торт (ru) (tort) m. (large cake served in slices), пирожное (ru) (piróžnoje) n. (small, individual cake)
Scottish Gaelic: breacag f., aran milis m., bonnach m., bannag f.
Serbian: kolač (sr) m.
Slovak: torta (sk) f., koláč (sk) m.
Spanish: (birthday or wedding cake) bizcocho m. (Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico), cake (es) m. (Cuba, Panama - pronounced 'keik'), pastel m. (Northeastern Spain, Mexico, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras), ponqué m. (Colombia), pudín m. (Colombian Atlantic Coast), queque m. (Costa Rica, Nicaragua - in Chile: an unlayered cake), tarta f. (Spain standard usage), torta (es) f. (Argentina, Bolivia, Ecuador, Peru, Uruguay, Venezuela - in Chile: a layer cake)
Swahili: keki (sw)
Swedish: tårta (sv) c., kaka (sv) c.
Tagalog: keyk (tl)
Tamil: கேக் (ta) (kēk)
Taos: kèke’éna
Telugu: కేక్ (te) (kēk)
Turkish: kek (tr)
Vietnamese: bánh (vi)
Welsh: teisen (cy) f. sg.

a block of solid material

Bulgarian: калъп (bg) m.
Chinese:

Mandarin: 塊狀物, 块状物 (kuài zhuàng wù)
Czech: deska (cs) f., blok (cs) m.
Danish: stykke (da)
Dutch: stuk (nl) n., blok (nl) m.
Esperanto: briko (eo)

Finnish: kakku (fi)
Hungarian: darab (hu), tábla (hu)
Icelandic: stykki (is) n.
Manx: block (gv) m.
Norwegian: stykke (no) m.
Portuguese: (of soap) sabonete m.
Swedish: kaka (sv)

a trivially easy task or responsibility — see piece of cake

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Breton: gwastell f., gwastelloù pl., gwestell pl.
Hebrew: עוגה (uga) f.

Indonesian: kue tart

[edit] Verb

cake (third-person singular simple present cakes, present participle caking, simple past and past participle caked)

(transitive) Coat (something) with a crust of solid material.

His shoes are caked with mud.

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(coat with a crust of material): crust, encrust

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Coat with a crust

Bulgarian: спичам се (bg), втвърдявам се (bg)
Dutch: bedekken (nl), vastkoeken (nl)

Macedonian: закоравен (mk) (zakóraven) m.

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akçe

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[edit] Adverb

cake

up

Le cake au jambon.

[edit] French

[edit] Etymology

From English cake.

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IPA: /kɛk/, /kek/

[edit] Noun

cake m. (plural cakes)

fruitcake (containing rum).
quick bread (a smallish loaf-shaped baked good which may be sweet like an English cake or salty and with bits of meat. See insert).

cake

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