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”), Swedish bagare (“baker”), Icelandic bakari (“baker”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbeɪ.kə(ɹ)/
• IPA^(key): /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.
   • 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.

Synonyms

• dougher

Derived terms

• bakeress
• baker foot
• baker's
• baker's dozen
• baker's itch
• 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), فَرَّان m (farrān)
• Armenian: հացագործ (hy) (hacʻagorc)
• Aromanian: furnãgi m, ciripar m
• Asturian: panaderu m
• Azerbaijani: çörəkçi
• Basque: okin (eu)
• Belarusian: пе́кар m (pjékar), пе́карка f (pjékarka)
• Breton: baraer (br) m
• Bulgarian: пекар m (pekar), хлебар m (hlebar)
• Catalan: forner (ca) m, flequer (ca) m
• Chechen: кхаллардоттург (qallardotturg)
• Chinese:

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

• Czech: pekař (cs) m
• Danish: bager (da) c
• Dutch: bakker (nl) m
• 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)
• 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)

  Ancient: ἀρτοποιός m (artopoiós)

• Greenlandic: uuterisoq
• Hebrew: אוֹפֶה (he) m (ofé), אוֹפָה (he) f (ofa)
• Hungarian: pék (hu)
• Icelandic: bakari (is) m
• Interlingue:
• 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)
• Korean: 제빵사 (jeppangsa), 빵집 주인 (ppangjip ju'in)
• Kurdish:

  Sorani: نانەوا (nanewa), نانکار (nankar)

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• Kyrgyz: наабайчы (ky) (naabaycı)
• Latin: pistor m, pānifex m
• Latvian: maiznieks m
• Ligurian: fornâ m
• Lithuanian: kepėjas m
• Macedonian: пе́кар m (pékar), фурна́џија m (furnádžija)
• Maltese: furnar m, furnara f
• Manx: fuinneyder, ben uinnee f
• Mongolian: 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)
• Persian: نانوا (fa) (nânvâ), خباز (fa) (xabbâz)
• Polish: piekarz (pl) m, piekarka f
• Portuguese: padeiro (pt) m (bread), pasteleiro (pt) m (cakes)
• Romanian: brutar (ro) m, pâinar m (rare, dated)
• Russian: хлебопёк (ru) m (xlebopjók), пе́карь (ru) m (pékarʹ)
• Scottish Gaelic: fuineadair m, bèicear m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: пе̏ка̄р m, пекарица 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)
• Tajik: нонвой (nonvoy), нонпаз (nonpaz), хаббоз (xabboz)
• Turkish: fırıncı (tr)
• Turkmen: çörekçi
• Ukrainian: пе́кар m (pékar), пе́карка f (pékarka)
• Uzbek: novvoy (uz)
• 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

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Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbaː.kər/

• Audio

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• 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. (deprecated template usage) first-person singular present indicative of bakeren
2. (deprecated template usage) imperative of bakeren

Anagrams

• brake

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Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

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.

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• bakar

Verb

1. (deprecated template usage) present of baka
2. (deprecated template usage) present of bake

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Slovene

Chemical element
Cu
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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bàːkər/

Noun

bákər m inan

1. copper (metal)

Inflection

The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.

Masculine inan., hard o-stem
nominative	báker
genitive	bákra
	singular
nominative (imenovȃlnik)	báker
genitive (rodȋlnik)	bákra
dative (dajȃlnik)	bákru
accusative (tožȋlnik)	báker
locative (mẹ̑stnik)	bákru
instrumental (orọ̑dnik)	bákrom