baguette

See also: Baguette

English

baguette (3)

Etymology

Borrowed from French baguette (“stick”), from Italian bacchetta.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bæˈɡɛt/

• Audio (AU):

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Noun

baguette (plural baguettes)

1. A narrow, relatively long rectangular shape.
2. A gem cut in such a shape.
3. A variety of bread that is long and narrow in shape.
4. (architecture) A small molding, like the astragal, but smaller; a bead.
5. (zoology) One of the minute bodies seen in the divided nucleoli of some Infusoria after conjugation.
6. (ethnic slur, mildly offensive, slang) A French person, or a person of French descent.

   Synonym: frog

Synonyms

• (bread): freedom bread (US politics, humorous, rare), French bread (informal), French stick

Translations

a narrow, relatively long rectangular shape

• Bulgarian: издължена правоъгълна форма (izdǎlžena pravoǎgǎlna forma)
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• Icelandic: snittubrauð (is) n

a gem cut in such a shape

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a variety of bread that is long and narrow in shape

• Arabic: بَاغِيت m (bāget)

  Moroccan Arabic: باريزيان m (parizyān), كومير m (kumīr)

• Azerbaijani: baget
• Belarusian: баге́т (be) m (bahjét)
• Bulgarian: франзе́ла (bg) f (franzéla)
• Catalan: baguet f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 百吉包 (baak³ gat¹ baau¹), 長法包／长法包, 长法包 (coeng⁴ faat³ baau¹)

  Mandarin: 法式長棍麵包／法式长棍面包, 法式长棍面包 (Fǎshì chánggùn miànbāo), 法棍麵包／法棍面包, 法棍面包 (Fǎgùn miànbāo)

• Czech: bageta (cs) f
• Danish: flute (da) n
• Dutch: stokbrood (nl) n
• Esperanto: bastonpano f
• Finnish: patonki (fi), ranskanleipä (fi)
• French: baguette (fr) f
• Galician: baguete f, baguette f, barra de pan f
• German: Baguette (de) n
• Greek: μπαγκέτα (el) f (bagkéta)
• Hebrew: בָּגֶט (he) m (bagét)
• Japanese: バゲット (ja) (bagetto), フランスパン (Furansu pan)
• Khmer: នំប៉័ងវែង (num pang vɛɛng)
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• Korean: 바게트 (ko) (bageteu), 프랑스빵 (peurangseuppang)
• Lao: ເຂົ້າຈີ່ຝຣັ່ງ (khao chīp rang)
• Macedonian: Багет (Baget)
• Maltese: bezzun m
• Navajo: sáanii bijáád
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: bagett m

  Nynorsk: bagett m

• Persian: باگت (fa) (bâget)
• Polish: bagietka (pl) f
• Portuguese: baguete (pt) f
• Romanian: baghetă (ro) f
• Russian: баге́т (ru) m (bagét)
• Slovak: bageta (sk) f
• Spanish: baguete (es) f, baguette (es) f, barra de pan f
• Swedish: baguette (sv) c, pain riche (sv)
• Thai: บาแก็ต (baa-gɛ̀t)
• Turkish: francala (tr), baget (tr)
• Ukrainian: баге́т (uk) m (bahét)
• Vietnamese: banh mì, bánh mì Pháp
• Welsh: bagét m

architecture: a small molding, like the astragal, but smaller; a bead

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zoology: one of the minute bodies seen in the divided nucleoli of some Infusoria after conjugation

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ethnic slur: a french person

• Dutch: fransoos (nl) m, franskiljon (nl) m
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French

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian bacchetta.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ba.ɡɛt/

• audio:

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Noun

baguette f (plural baguettes)

1. stick, rod, any long thin object
2. (food) baguette, French stick

   J’achète une baguette tous les jours.

   I buy a baguette every day.

3. chopstick

   Les japonais mangent avec des baguettes.

   The Japanese eat with chopsticks.

4. (music) drumstick; (conductor's) baton

   Ringo est un maître des baguettes.

   Ringo is a drumstick master.

   • 1986, “Il était une fois … une maison des musiciens [There Once Was… a House of Musicians]”, in Il était une fois … une petite grenouille [There Once Was… a Little Frog] (fiction), Paris: CLE International:

     Assis en rond dans la cour, nous jouons du tambour.
     Assis en rond dans la cour, nous jouons du tambour.
     Ses baguettes font tacatamtam.
     Tes baguettes font tacatamtam.
     Mes baguettes, mes baguettes, mes baguettes font tacatamtam.
     Ses baguettes font tacatamtam.
     Tes baguettes font tacatamtam.
     Mes baguettes, mes baguettes, mes baguettes font tacatamtam.
     Tacatamtam.

     Sitting in a circle in the yard, we play the drum.
     Sitting in a circle in the yard, we play the drum.
     Their drumsticks go tacatamtam.
     Your drumsticks go tacatamtam.
     My drumsticks, my drumsticks, my drumsticks go tacatamtam.
     Their drumsticks go tacatamtam.
     Your drumsticks go tacatamtam.
     My drumsticks, my drumsticks, my drumsticks go tacatamtam.
     Tacatamtam.

5. wand

   Gwenda a agité sa baguette magique.

   Gwenda waved her magic wand.
6. (firearms) gun-stick, rod for stuffing the gun with ammunition
7. (Louisiana, Cajun) the barrel of a gun

Derived terms

• baguette de coudrier
• baguette de sourcier
• baguette magique
• mener à la baguette

 

Descendants

• → Czech: bageta
• → Danish: baguette
• → English: baguette
• → German: Baguette
• → Greek: μπαγκέτα (bagkéta)
• → Hebrew: בגט (bagét)
• → Norwegian Bokmål: bagett
• → Norwegian Nynorsk: bagett
• → Portuguese: baguete
• → Romanian: baghetă
• → Russian: баге́т (bagét)
• → Spanish: baguette
• → Swedish: baguette
• → Turkish: baget

Further reading

• “baguette”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Spanish

baguette

barra de pan

barra de pan

Alternative forms

• baguete, baguet

Etymology

From French baguette.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /baˈɡet/ [baˈɣ̞et̪]

Noun

baguette f (plural baguettes)

1. baguette, French bread (a long, narrow, parbaked bread)

Usage notes

• In Spain, a baguette tends to refer only to a long, narrow, parbaked and poor quality baguette in supermarkets. While a barra de pan is the rest of baguettes and baked in bakeries.

Further reading

• “baguette”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

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Swedish

Etymology

From French baguette.

Noun

baguette c

1. baguette (bread)

   Synonym: pain riche

Declension

Declension of baguette

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	baguette	baguettes
	definite	baguetten	baguettens
plural	indefinite	baguetter	baguetters
	definite	baguetterna	baguetternas

Further reading

• baguette in Svensk ordbok.