pake

pake

See also: PAKE, pakë, pakę, pàke, pāke, and Pākē

English

Etymology

Blend of pie +‎ cake.

Noun

pake (plural pakes)

  1. (informal) Synonym of piecake.
    • 2014 July 1, Nancy Stohs, “Bake a pie in a cake to make a ‘pake,’ because why not?”, in The Brownsville Herald, volume 122, number 363, page C2:
      Cherry pie baked inside a chocolate cake, for a dandy Black Forest pake.
    • 2014 November 21, The Garden Island, section “TGIFR!DAY” (volume 2, number 46), page 5:
      Pie specials include pumpkin, pumpkin crunch, pumpkin pecan, pumpkin haupia, gluten-free pumpkin pake (cake meets pie), pumpkin pake, cranberry walnut pudding, chocolate chip pecan and rum pecan.
    • 2015 November 18, Patricia Corrigan, “Sweet! St. Louis thrives with pies”, in St. Louis Jewish Light, volume 68, number 44, page 1B:
      We honor foot-high pie, oatmeal pecan pie, “pake” (that’s a pie baked inside a cake), apple green chili pecan pie, levee-high pie and even gooey butter cake pie.

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Indonesian

Verb

pake

  1. alternative form of pakai

Latin

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpaː.kɛ/

Noun

pake f

  1. (African Romance) alternative spelling of pācem: peace

References

  • Lorenzetti, Luca; Schirru, Giancarlo (2010), Leptis magna. Una città e le sue iscrizioni in epoca tardoromana, Cassino: Università di Cassino, →ISBN, Un indizio della conservazione di /k/ dinanzi a vocale anteriore nell'epigrafia cristiana di Tripolitania, page 308, 311 of 303–311
  • Loporcaro, Michele (2015), Vowel Length from Latin to Romance (Oxford studies in diachronic and historical linguistics)‎[1], volume 10, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 49

Middle English

Noun

pake

  1. alternative form of pak

Sarawak Malay

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Malay pakai.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pa.ke/
  • (only in prepositional sense) IPA(key): /ke/

Verb

pake

  1. to wear clothes.
    Kau Ari Raya mok pake baju apa?
    What clothes are you gonna wear for Hari Raya?
  2. to use (method)
    Daniel tulis khat pake pen biasa jak kah tadik?
    Did Daniel write in khat using only a normal pen?

Preposition

pake

  1. for (intended for; directed at; belonging to).
    Hadiah tok pake kitak.This gift is for you.
    Apa polah kitak pake Christmas?What are you doing for Christmas?

Swahili

Adjective

pake

  1. pa class(XVI) inflected form of -ake

West Frisian

Etymology

Possibly abbreviation of baby talk word papa with diminutive suffix -ke.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /paːkə/

Noun

pake c (plural paken, diminutive paakje)

  1. grandpa, grandfather
    Coordinate term: beppe
  2. old man

Derived terms

Further reading

  • pake”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

West Makian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpa.ke/

Adverb

pake

  1. an intensifier: very, really, etc.
    wolot nao ma imaulu pakethat sea there is very deep

References

  • Clemens Voorhoeve (1982), The Makian languages and their neighbours[2], Pacific linguistics