baker

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”).

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

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• Rhymes: -eɪkə(r)

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.

• dougher

• Wikipedia article on bakers

• 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 main entry.

baker

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

• brake

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 Old Turkic bakır‎ (bakır), from Proto-Turkic *bakɨr.

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

báker m inan (genitive bákra, uncountable)

1. copper (metal)