baker

See also: Baker and bakër

English

Etymology

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”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈbeɪ.kə(ɹ)/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈbeɪ.kɚ/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -eɪkə(ɹ)

Noun

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

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

Derived terms

• bakeress
• baker foot
• baker's
• baker's ammonia
• baker's chocolate
• baker's dozen
• baker's half dozen
• baker's itch
• baker's percentage
• baker's salt
• baker's yeast
• bakery
• sergeant baker
• sugar baker

 

Translations

person who bakes and sells bread, etc

• Afrikaans: bakker (af), bakster f
• Albanian: furrxhi m, bukëpjekës (sq) m
• Arabic: خَبَّاز‎ m (ḵabbāz), خَبَّازَة‎ f (ḵabbāza), فَرَّان‎ m (farrān), فَرَّانَة‎ f (farrāna)
• Armenian: հացագործ (hy) (hacʿagorc)
• Aromanian: furnãgi m, ciripar m
• Asturian: panaderu m
• Azerbaijani: çörəkçi, şatır (dated)
• Basque: okin (eu)
• Belarusian: пе́кар m (pjékar), пе́карка f (pjékarka)
• Bengali: রূটিত্তয়ালা (ruṭittoẏala)
• Breton: baraer (br) m
• Bulgarian: пека́р m (pekár), пека́рка f (pekárka), хлеба́р m (hlebár), хлеба́рка (bg) f (hlebárka)
• Burmese: ပေါင်မုန့်ဖုတ်သူ (paungmun.hputsu)
• Catalan: forner (ca) m, flequer (ca) m
• Chechen: кхаллардоттург (qallardotturg)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 麵包師傅／面包师傅 (zh) (miànbāo shīfu)

• Czech: pekař (cs) m
• Danish: bager (da) c
• Dutch: bakker (nl) m
• Egyptian: (rtḥtj)
• Esperanto: panisto, panistino
• Estonian: pagar (et)
• Faroese: bakari m
• Finnish: leipuri (fi)
• French: boulanger (fr) m, boulangère (fr) f
• Galician: panadeiro (gl) m, forneiro m, forneira f
• Gallo: boulangier m
• Georgian: მცხობელი (ka) (mcxobeli), ხაბაზი (ka) (xabazi), მეთორნე (metorne), მეპურე (ka) (meṗure)
• German: Bäcker (de) m, Bäckerin (de) f

  Alemannic German: Beck m, Pfischter m (parts of Lucerne, Uri, Valais), Brootler m (Unterwalden)

• Greek: αρτοποιός (el) m (artopoiós), φούρναρης (el) m (foúrnaris), φουρνάρισσα (el) f (fournárissa)

  Ancient: ἀρτοποιός m (artopoiós)

• Greenlandic: uuterisoq
• Hebrew: אוֹפֶה‎ (he) m ('ofé), אוֹפָה‎ (he) f ('ofá)
• Hindi: नानबाई (hi) m or f (nānbāī), बेकर m (bekar), रोटी वाला m (roṭī vālā)
• Hungarian: pék (hu)
• Icelandic: bakari (is) m
• Indonesian: tukang roti (id)
• Irish: báicéir (ga) m
• Italian: panettiere (it) m, panettiera f, fornaio (it) m, fornaia f, panificatore (it) m, panificatrice f
• Japanese: パン屋 (ja) (パンや, pan'ya), パン屋さん (ぱんやさん, pan'ya-san)
• Kazakh: наубайшы (naubaişy), нан пісіруші (nan pısıruşı)
• Khmer: ជាងដុតនំ (ciəng dot num)
• Korean: 제빵사 (jeppangsa), 빵집 주인 (ppangjip ju'in)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: نانەوا‎ (ckb) (nanewa), نانکار‎ (nankar)

  Northern Kurdish: nanpêj (ku)

• Kyrgyz: наабайчы (ky) (naabayçı)
• Latin: pistor m, pānifex m
• Latvian: maiznieks m, maizniece f
• Ligurian: fornâ m
• Lithuanian: kepėjas m
• Macedonian: пекар m (pekar), пекарка f (pekarka), фурнаџија m (furnadžija), фурнаџика f (furnadžika)
• Malay: tukang roti, khabaz
• Maltese: furnar m, furnara f
• Manx: fuinneyder, ben uinnee f
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: талхчин (mn) (talxčin)

• Navajo: bááh ííłʼíní
• Norman: boulandgi m
• Northern Sami: láibu
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: baker (no) m

  Nynorsk: bakar (nn) m

• Old English: bæcere (ang) m
• Ottoman Turkish: اكمكجی‎ (ekmekci), فرونجی‎ (furuncu, fırıncı)
• Pashto: نانباى‎ m (nānbāy), نانواى‎ m (nānwāy)
• Persian: نانوا‎ (fa) (nânvâ), خباز‎ (fa) (xabbâz)
• Plautdietsch: Bakja m
• Polish: piekarz (pl) m, piekarka (pl) f
• Portuguese: padeiro (pt) m (bread), pasteleiro (pt) m (cakes)
• Punjabi: ਨਾਨਬਾਈ m (nānbāī)
• Romanian: brutar (ro) m, brutăreasă (ro) f, pâinar m (rare, dated)
• Russian: пе́карь (ru) m (pékarʹ) (male or female), хлебопёк (ru) m (xlebopjók) (male or female), бу́лочник (ru) m (búločnik), бу́лочница (ru) f (búločnica)
• Scottish Gaelic: fuineadair m, bèicear m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: пе̏ка̄р m, пе̏карица f

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

• Sicilian: furnaru m
• Slovak: pekár (sk) m, pekárka (sk) f
• Slovene: pek (sl) m, pekovka f
• Spanish: panadero (es) m, panadera (es) f
• Swedish: bagare (sv)
• Tagalog: panadero
• Tajik: нонвой (nonvoy), нонпаз (nonpaz), хаббоз (xabboz)
• Thai: คนทำขนมปัง (kon-tam-kà-nǒm-bpang)
• Turkish: fırıncı (tr), ekmekçi (tr)
• Turkmen: çörekçi
• Ugaritic: 𐎀𐎔𐎊 (ảpy)
• Ukrainian: пе́кар (uk) m (pékar), пе́карка (uk) f (pékarka)
• Urdu: نان بائی‎ m or f (nān bāī)
• Uyghur: ناۋاي‎ (naway)
• Uzbek: novvoy (uz)
• Venetian: forner m, pistor (vec) m
• Vietnamese: người thợ làm bánh mì
• Vilamovian: bekier m, bekieryn m
• Volapük: (♂♀) bakan (vo), (♂) hibakan, (♀) jibakan
• Walloon: boledjî (wa) m, boledjresse (wa) f
• Welsh: pobydd
• Yiddish: בעקער‎ m (beker)

See also

• Wikipedia article on bakers

Anagrams

• Abrek, Brake, barke, brake, break

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbaː.kər/

• Audio

  (file)

• Hyphenation: ba‧ker
• Rhymes: -aːkər

Etymology 1

Short for bakermoeder.

Noun

baker f (plural bakers, diminutive bakertje n)

1. (historical) A midwife; one who helps women in childbirth with deliveries.

Derived terms

• bakerhaai
• bakerpraat

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

baker

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

Anagrams

• brake

Lacandon

Noun

baker

1. bone

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

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

Noun

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

1. a baker (person who bakes professionally)

Related terms

• bake
• bakeri

See also

• bakar (Nynorsk)

Etymology 2

Noun

baker m pl

1. indefinite plural of bak

Etymology 3

Verb

baker

1. present tense of bake

References

• “baker” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• bakar

Verb

baker

1. present of baka
2. present of bake

Slovene

Chemical element
Cu
Previous: níkelj (Ni)
Next: cínk (Zn)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bàːkər/

Noun

bákər m inan

1. copper (metal)

Inflection

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

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