beker

From Dutch beker, from Middle Dutch beker, from Latin bicarium.

beker (plural bekers, diminutive bekertjie)

1. cup, beaker

From Middle Dutch beker, from Latin bicarium. Cognate with English beaker. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbeː.kər/

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• Hyphenation: be‧ker
• Rhymes: -eːkər

beker m (plural bekers, diminutive bekertje n)

1. beaker, cup, chalice (drinking vessel, often but not always without a handle, generally not made of glass)
2. cup (trophy)

• Afrikaans: beker

beker

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

• breek, breke