# bacon
## English
### Etymology

From Middle English bacoun (“meat from the back and sides of a pig”), from Anglo-Norman bacon, bacun (“ham, flitch, strip of lard”), from Old Low Frankish *bakō (“ham, flitch”), from Proto-Germanic *bakô, *bakkô (“back”), an extension of *baką, whence English back, which see for more. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeg- (“back, buttocks; to vault, arch”).
Cognate with Old Saxon baco (“back”), Dutch bake (“ham, side of bacon”), Old High German bahho (“ham, side of bacon”), whence German Bache f (“wild sow”), Alemannic German Bache m (“bacon”).
(police): Extension of pig (“police”).

### Pronunciation

* enPR: bā'kən, IPA: /ˈbeɪ.kən/
* Audio (General Australian):(file)
* Rhymes: -eɪkən
* Homophone: bakin' (US)

### Noun

bacon (usually uncountable, plural bacons)
* Cured meat from the sides, belly, or back of a pig.
** 2006, Joanna Pruess, Seduced by Bacon, The Lyons Press, →ISBN, page 93:They fried the fish with bacon and were astonished, for no fish had ever seemed so delicious before.
** 2009 March 31, Laura Casey, “Piggin' out on bacon at S.F.'s BaconCamp”, in San Jose Mercury News‎, retrieved 2010-10-19:For us the pig's the means, while bacon is the end / Providing gustatory heights to which we can ascend.
** 2009 August 12, Lisa Abraham, “Bacon comes home - Old favorite tastes even better when you do the curing yourself”, in Akron Beacon Journal, Akron, Ohio, page D1:Bacon is something that everybody is familiar with and most people grew up eating. It has a comfort aspect to it and a familiarity. It's also got an addictive aspect to it - that sweet and salty combination of flavors. And it's probably just a little bit unhealthy for you. When you get to have bacon, it's exciting and something you look forward to.
* Thin slices of the above in long strips.
* (slang, derogatory) The police or spies.
    Run! It's the bacon!
* (cycling, slang, uncountable) Road rash.
* (military, archaic) A saucisse.

#### Usage notes

In the UK, the word bacon on its own usually refers specifically to loin or back bacon (similar to the US Canadian bacon). In the US, bacon usually refers to side or belly bacon (referred to as streaky bacon in the UK).

#### Synonyms

* (cut of meat from a pig): ham, pork

#### Derived terms

* back bacon
* bacon and cabbage
* bacon and eggs
* bacon beetle
* baconburger
* bacon butty
* baconed
* baconer
* bacon explosion
* bacon-faced
* bacon-fed
* bacon grease
* bacon grill
* baconize
* baconless
* baconlike
* bacon rind
* bacon square
* baconweed
* bacony
* bring home the bacon
* Canadian bacon
* carrot bacon
* chawbacon
* cottage bacon
* eggs and bacon
* facon
* fakon
* fry someone's bacon
* good voice to beg bacon
* Irish bacon
* macon
* peameal bacon
* pig upon bacon
* pull someone's bacon out of the fire
* save someone's bacon
* side bacon
* side of bacon
* steal the bacon
* streaky bacon
* turkey bacon
* whale bacon
* white bacon

#### Related terms

* back

#### Descendants

* → Bulgarian: бекон (bekon)
* → Chinese: 培根 (péigēn)
* → Finnish: pekoni
* → French: bacon
* → Hebrew: בייקון
* → Italian: becon
* → Japanese: ベーコン (bēkon)
* → Maori: pēkana
* → Maltese: bejken
* → Norwegian Bokmål: bacon, beiken
* → Norwegian Nynorsk: bacon, beiken
* → Polish: bekon
* → Portuguese: bacon
* → Russian: бекон (bekon)
* → Spanish: bacon, beicon
* → Swedish: bacon

#### Translations
### See also

* flitch
* gammon
* guanciale
* hock
* pancetta
* green, in the sense of unsmoked
* smoked
* hog
* porcine
* rasher
* slab
* sow
* swine
* bacon on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

### Anagrams

* coban, Bonac, banco

## Dutch
### Etymology

Borrowed from English bacon.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈbeːkən/

### Noun

bacon m or n (uncountable)
* back bacon
    Hypernym: spek
    Coordinate term: ontbijtspek

## French
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English bacon, from Middle English bacon (“meat from the back and sides of a pig”), from Old French bacon, bacun (“ham, strip of lard”), from Frankish *bakkō, from Proto-Germanic *bakō, *baką, *bakaz (“back”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeg- (“back, buttocks; to vault, arch”).
Attested since 1899.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /be.kɔn/, /be.kœn/
* Audio (Paris):(file)
* Audio (Paris):(file)
* Audio (France, Normandy):(file)

### Noun

bacon m (uncountable)
* bacon

### Further reading

* “bacon”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

## Italian
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English bacon.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈbɛ.kon/
* Rhymes: -ɛkon

### Noun

bacon m (invariable)
* bacon
    Synonym: pancetta

### Further reading

* bacon in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
* bacon in garzantilinguistica.it – Garzanti Linguistica, De Agostini Scuola Spa

### Anagrams

* Banco, banco, bancò

## Middle English
### Noun

bacon
* Alternative form of bacoun

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Etymology

Borrowed from English bacon.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /beːkən/, /bæjkən/
* Rhymes: -eːkən, -æjkən

### Noun

bacon n (definite singular baconet)
* bacon

### References

* “bacon” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Etymology

Borrowed from English bacon.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈbɛɪːkən/, /ˈbeːkən/
* Rhymes: -ɛɪːkən, -eːkən

### Noun

bacon n (definite singular baconet)
* bacon

### References

* “bacon” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

## Old French
### Alternative forms

* bacun, bacoun

### Etymology

From Frankish *bakō, from Proto-Germanic *bakô.

### Noun

bacon oblique singular, m (oblique plural bacons, nominative singular bacons, nominative plural bacon)
* bacon, salted pork, ham, shank (of a pig)

#### Descendants

* Middle French: bacon
* Picard: bacôn (Athois)
* → Middle English: bacoun
** English: bacon (see there for further descendants)
** Scots: bawcon
** → Welsh: bacwn
** Yola: bawkoon, bawcoon, bacoon, bakoon

## Portuguese
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English bacon.

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈbej.kõ/ [ˈbeɪ̯.kõ]
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈbɐj.kɔn/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈbɐj.kɔn/
** (Northern Portugal) IPA: /ˈbej.kɔn/
** (Central Portugal) IPA: /ˈbej.kɔn/
** (Southern Portugal) IPA: /ˈbe.kɔn/

### Noun

bacon m (plural bacons)
* bacon (cured meat from the belly, sides or back of a pig)

### See also

* toucinho

## Romanian
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English bacon.

### Noun

bacon n (uncountable)
* bacon

#### Declension
## Spanish
### Alternative forms

* bacón, beicon

### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English bacon.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈbeikon/ [ˈbei̯.kõn]
* Rhymes: -eikon

### Noun

bacon m (plural bacons)
* bacon

#### Usage notes

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.

## Swedish
### Etymology

Borrowed from English bacon. First attested in 1924.

### Noun

bacon n
* bacon, streaky bacon
    Bacon är rimmat sidfläskBacon is salt-cured pork belly

#### Usage notes

Normally reserved for thin-cut, American-style / streaky bacon made from pork belly. Thick-cut bacon is fläsk. Referring to thick-cut bacon as bacon will likely confuse many native Swedish speakers, as most are bound to be unaware that bacon can be thicker in English.

#### Declension
### References

* bacon in Svensk ordbok (SO)
* bacon in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)