baud

See also: Baud

English

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baud

Wikipedia

Alternative forms

• Baud

Etymology

Borrowed from French baud. Named for French inventor Jean-Maurice-Émile Baudot (1845-1903).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /bɔːd/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /bɔd/
• (cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /bɑd/
• Rhymes: -ɔːd
• Homophones: bawd; board, bored (non-rhotic)

Noun

baud (countable and uncountable, plural bauds)

1. (computing, telecommunications) A unit of data transmission symbol rate; the number of signalling events per second.
   • 1985 April 13, Stephanie Poggi, “Queer Hackers”, in Gay Community News, page 2:

     To reach the Backroom Bulletin Board, call [phone] with a computer, using either the 300 or 1200 baud setting on the modem.

2. (computing, informal) bps (bits per second), regardless of how many bits are represented by each symbol.

Derived terms

• autobaud
• gigabaud
• kilobaud
• megabaud
• terabaud

Translations

A rate defined as the number of signalling events per second

Arabic: بَاوْد m (bāwd) Belarusian: бод m (bod) Bulgarian: бод m (bod) Chinese: Mandarin: 波特 (zh) (bōtè), 鮑 / 鲍 (zh) (bāo) Czech: baud m Esperanto: baŭdo Finnish: baudi (fi) French: baud (fr) m German: Baud (de) m Greek: μπωντ (el) (bont) Hebrew: באוד (he) Hindi: बॉड (bŏḍ) Icelandic: bot (is) n, baud n, (bits per second) bitar á sekúndu (is) m pl Japanese: ボー (bō) Korean: 보오 (boo) Macedonian: бод m (bod) Maori: mokotare Polish: bod (pl) m Portuguese: baud m Russian: бод (ru) m (bod) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: бод m Roman: bod (sh) m Thai: บอด (th) (bòt) Ukrainian: бод m (bod)

Anagrams

• Buda, Daub, Duba, abud, daub

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈbau̯t]

Noun

baud m inan

1. baud (unit of rate of data transmission)

Declension

Declension of baud (hard masculine inanimate)

	singular	plural
nominative	baud	baudy
genitive	baudu	baudů
dative	baudu	baudům
accusative	baud	baudy
vocative	baude	baudy
locative	baudu	baudech
instrumental	baudem	baudy

Further reading

• “baud”, in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu (in Czech)
• “baud”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989

Dalmatian

Etymology

From Latin vōx, vocem, possibly influenced by vōtum.

Noun

baud f

1. voice

Dibabawon Manobo

Noun

baud

1. pigeon

French

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old French baud, bald (“joyous, full of ardor”), from Frankish *bald, *balt, from Proto-Germanic *balþaz (“strong, bold”) (compare English bold, Dutch boud).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bo/
• Rhymes: -o
• Homophones: bau, bauds, baux, beau, beaux (general), bot, bots (except regionally)

Noun

baud m (plural bauds)

1. a type of hunting dog

Related terms

• baudet

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English baud. Named for French inventor Jean-Maurice-Émile Baudot (1845-1903).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bod/

Noun

baud m (plural bauds)

1. baud (unit)

Further reading

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

Gothic

Romanization

baud

1. romanization of 𐌱𐌰𐌿𐌳

Indonesian

Indonesian Wikipedia has an article on:

baud

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Pronunciation

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈbaud/ [ˈba.ʊt̪̚]
• Rhymes: -aud
• Syllabification: baud
• Homophone: baut

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English baud, from French baud. Named for French inventor Jean-Maurice-Émile Baudot (1845-1903).

Noun

baud (plural baud-baud)

1. (telecommunications) baud: a unit of data transmission symbol rate; the number of signalling events per second

Etymology 2

Noun

baud (plural baud-baud)

1. alternative spelling of baut

Further reading

• “baud”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

baud

1. (non-standard since 2005) past tense of by
2. (non-standard since 2005) past tense of byde

Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

baud

1. past tense of by

Old French

Alternative forms

• bald, balt, baut

Etymology

From Frankish *bald or similar Germanic source, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *balþaz.

Pronunciation

• (archaic) IPA^(key): /ˈbalt/
• (classical) IPA^(key): /ˈbau̯t/

Adjective

baud m (oblique and nominative feminine singular baude)

1. bold; brave
2. cheerful; full of ardour

Derived terms

• abaudir
• embaudir
• esbaudir

Descendants

• Bourguignon: baud
• Middle French: baud
  • French: baud
• → Italian: baldo
• → Middle English: bawde, baude (noun)
  • English: bawd

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈbaw.d͡ʒi/ [ˈbaʊ̯.d͡ʒi], /ˈbawd͡ʒ/ [ˈbaʊ̯d͡ʒ]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈbaw.d͡ʒi/ [ˈbaʊ̯.d͡ʒi], /ˈbawd͡ʒ/ [ˈbaʊ̯d͡ʒ]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈbawd͡ʒ/ [ˈbaʊ̯d͡ʒ], /ˈbaw.d͡ʒi/ [ˈbaʊ̯.d͡ʒi]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈbawd/ [ˈbawð]

• Hyphenation: baud

Noun

baud m (plural bauds)

1. (computing, telecommunications) baud (a rate defined as the number of signalling events per second)

Further reading

• “baud”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2025
• “baud”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

Romansch

Alternative forms

• baul (Sursilvan)
• bòld (Sutsilvan)
• bod (Surmiran, Puter, Vallader)

Etymology

From German bald.

Adverb

baud

1. (Rumantsch Grischun) early

Scots

Etymology

Borrowed from Scottish Gaelic bad (“clump, thicket”), itself borrowed from Pictish (cf. Breton bod (“cluster, bunch of grapes, thicket”)).

Adjective

baud (comparative mair baud, superlative maist baud)

1. bad

Noun

baud (plural bauds)

1. a thicket, a clump of trees