baker

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

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

     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.

See also

• Wikipedia article on bakers

Anagrams

• Abrek, Brake, barke, brake, break

Pronunciation

• Audio

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• Hyphenation: ba‧ker

Noun

baker f (plural bakers, diminutive bakertje n)

1. lit. 'swaddler': Person who helps midwife with child deliveries.

Verb

baker

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

Anagrams

• brake

Etymology 1

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

Etymology 2

Etymology 3

References

• “baker” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Alternative forms

• bakar

Verb

baker

1. present tense of baka
2. present tense of bake

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbàːkər/
• Tonal orthography: bákər

Noun

báker m inan (genitive bákra, uncountable)

1. copper (metal)