English Explanatory Dictionary

bake

English dictionary entry

Meanings

verb
  1. To cook (something) in an oven (for someone).
  2. To be cooked in an oven.
  3. To be warmed to drying and hardening.
  4. To dry by heat.
  5. To be hot.
  6. To cause to be hot.
  7. To smoke marijuana.
  8. To harden by cold.
  9. To fix (lighting, reflections, etc.) as part of the texture of an object to improve rendering performance.
  10. To incorporate into something greater.
noun
  1. The act of cooking food by baking.
  2. Any of various baked dishes resembling casserole.
  3. Any food item that is baked, such as a pastry.
  4. A social event at which food (such as seafood) is baked, or at which baked food is served.
  5. A small, flat (or ball-shaped) cake of dough eaten mainly in Barbados, similar in appearance and ingredients to a pancake but fried (or sometimes roasted).

Pronunciation

/beɪk/ en-us-bake.ogg /bæɪk/ /bek/ /beːk/

Word forms

bake bakes baking baked book baken

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₃g- Proto-Indo-European *bʰh₃g- Proto-Germanic *bakaną Proto-West Germanic *bakan Old English bacan Middle English baken English bake From Middle English baken, from Old English bacan (“to bake”), from Proto-West Germanic *bakan, from Proto-Germanic *bakaną (“to bake”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₃g- (“to roast, bake”). Cognate with West Frisian bakke (“to bake”), Dutch bakken (“to bake”), Low German backen (“to bake”), German backen (“to bake”), Norwegian Bokmål bake (“to bake”), Danish bage (“to bake”), Norwegian Nynorsk and Swedish baka (“to bake”), Ancient Greek φώγω (phṓgō, “roast”, verb).

Synonyms

fire

Related words

roast bake-danuki

Derived words

bakable bakeability bakeable bakeaholic bakeboard bake bread bakecraft baked bakehead bakehouse bake in bakemeat bake off bake-off bakeoff bake out bakeoven bake oven bakery bake sale bakeshop bake someone's bread bakestone bake up bakeware baking baxter clambake clam bake dump-and-bake half-baked hardbake in a bake no-bake outbake overbake parbake pasta bake prebake rebake shake and bake shake-and-bake shake 'n' bake shake 'n bake steak bake sunbake take-and-bake traybake underbake wake and bake fake-bake bake shop

Translations

Albanian: pjek Southern Altai: быжырар Southern Altai: быжар Amharic: ጋገረ Andi: бежиду Arabic: خَبَزَ Arabic: خبز Argobba: ጋገራ Armenian: թխել Aromanian: coc Assamese: সেকা Avar: бежизе Azerbaijani: bişirmək Basque: labekatu Belarusian: пячы́ Belarusian: спячы́ Belarusian: запяка́ць Belarusian: запячы́ Belarusian: упяка́ць Belarusian: упячы́ Belizean Creole: bayk Bengali: সেকা Bulgarian: пека́ Burmese: ဖုတ် Catalan: fornejar Cherokee: ᎦᏚᎲᏍᎦ Chickasaw: paska Chinese Cantonese: 焗 Chinese Mandarin: 烤 Chinese Mandarin: 烘 Chinese Mandarin: 焙燒 /焙烧 Chinese Mandarin: 烘烤 Czech: péci Czech: péct Danish: bage Dutch: bakken Esperanto: baki Estonian: küpsetama Finnish: paistaa Finnish: paistaa uunissa Finnish: leipoa French: cuire North Frisian: baag North Frisian: bååge North Frisian: baak North Frisian: bak Saterland Frisian: boake West-Frisian: bakke Galician: cocer Galician: asar Georgian: აცხობს Georgian: გამოაცხობს German: backen Greek: ψήνω Ancient Greek: ὀπτάω Hebrew: אָפָה Hindi: सेंकना Hungarian: süt
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