baker

See also: Baker and bakër

English

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baker

Wikipedia

Etymology

Inherited 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:

     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

• bakerdom
• bakeress
• baker foot
• bakerless
• bakerly
• baker's
• baker's ammonia
• baker's chocolate
• baker's dozen
• baker's half dozen
• bakership
• baker's itch
• baker's percentage
• baker's salt
• baker's yeast
• bakery
• cakebaker
• fly baker
• sergeant baker
• sugar baker

Translations

person who bakes and sells bread, etc

Afrikaans: bakker (af), bakster (female referent) Albanian: furrxhi m, bukëpjekës (sq) m Arabic: خَبَّاز m (ḵabbāz), خَبَّازَة f (ḵabbāza), فَرَّان m (farrān), فَرَّانَة f (farrāna) Armenian: հացագործ (hy) (hacʻagorc) 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, pekařka (cs) f Danish: bager (da) c Dutch: bakker (nl) m, bakster (nl) f Egyptian: (rtḥtj) Esperanto: panisto, panistino (female) Estonian: pagar (et) Faroese: bakari m Finnish: leipuri (fi) French: boulanger (fr) m, boulangère (fr) f Galician: panadeiro (gl) m, panadeira f, 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 Haitian Creole: boulanje 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) Kaitag: черичи́ (čeričí) Kazakh: наубайшы (naubaişy), нан пісіруші (nan pısıruşı) Khiamniungan Naga: thāmtsâijàuhāi 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) (naabaycı), бышкын (bışkın) Latin: pī̆stor m, pī̆strīx f; pānifex m, pānifica f Latvian: maiznieks m, maizniece f Ligurian: fornâ m Lithuanian: kepėjas m, kepė́ja f Macedonian: пекар (mk) 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 Occitan: fornièr (oc) 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) Romansch: pasterner m, pasternera f, furner m, furnera f Russian: пе́карь (ru) m (pékarʹ) (male or female), хлебопёк (ru) m (xlebopjók) (male or female), бу́лочник (ru) m (búločnik), бу́лочница (ru) f (búločnica) Sardinian: furraju m, furraja f 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) 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) Venetan: forner m, pistor (vec) m Vietnamese: người thợ làm bánh mì Vilamovian: bekier m, bekieryn m Volapük: bakan (vo), hibakan (male), jibakan (female) Walloon: boledjî (wa) m, boledjresse (wa) f Welsh: pobydd Yiddish: בעקער m (beker), בעקערין f (bekerin), בעקערקע f (bekerke)

See also

• baker on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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. inflection of bakeren:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
   3. imperative

Anagrams

• brake

Lacandon

Noun

baker

1. bone

Norwegian Bokmål

Norwegian Wikipedia has an article on:

Baker (profesjon)

Wikipedia ^no

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)

Declension

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

Further reading

• “baker”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU (in Slovene), 2014–2025