baker

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See also: Baker and bakër

English

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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

Noun

baker (plural bakers)

  1. A person who bakes and sells bread, cakes and similar items.
    • 2006, Edwin Black, chapter 2, in Internal Combustion‎:
      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)

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Dutch

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

baker

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

Anagrams

Lacandon

Noun

baker

  1. bone

Norwegian Bokmål

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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)
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Etymology 2

Noun

baker m pl

  1. indefinite plural of bak

Etymology 3

Verb

baker

  1. present tense of bake

References

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

Verb

baker

  1. present of baka
  2. present of bake

Slovene

Chemical element
Cu
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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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) 		—
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
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