baker

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”).

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈbeɪ.kə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈbeɪ.kɚ/

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• (Scotland) IPA^(key): /ˈbe.kəɾ/
• (Wales, without the pane–pain merger) IPA^(key): /ˈbeː.kə/
• Rhymes: -eɪkə(ɹ)

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.
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.

• (person who bakes): baxter (obsolete, Britain, Scotland), dougher (obsolete)

• baker on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• Abrek, Brake, barke, brake, break

• IPA^(key): /ˈbaː.kər/

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• Hyphenation: ba‧ker
• Rhymes: -aːkər

Short for bakermoeder.

baker f (plural bakers, diminutive bakertje n)

1. (historical) a midwife; one who helps women in childbirth with deliveries

• bakerhaai
• bakerpraat

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

baker

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

• brake

baker

1. bone

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

baker m (definite singular bakeren, indefinite plural bakere, definite plural bakerne)

1. a baker (person who bakes professionally)

• bake
• bakeri

• bakar (Nynorsk)

baker m pl

1. indefinite plural of bak

baker

1. present tense of bake

• “baker” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

• bakar

baker

1. present of baka
2. present of bake

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

• IPA^(key): /bàːkər/

bákər m inan

1. copper (metal)

• “baker”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran
• “baker”, in Termania, Amebis
• See also the general references