# baud
## English
### Alternative forms

* Baud

### Etymology

Borrowed from French baud. Named for French inventor Jean-Maurice-Émile Baudot (1845-1903).

### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /bɔːd/
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* (US) IPA: /bɔd/
* (cot–caught merger) IPA: /bɑd/
* Rhymes: -ɔːd
* Homophones: bawd; board, bored (non-rhotic)

### Noun

baud (countable and uncountable, plural bauds)
* (computing, telecommunications) A unit of data transmission symbol rate; the number of signalling events per second.
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* (computing, informal) bps (bits per second), regardless of how many bits are represented by each symbol.

#### Derived terms

* autobaud
* gigabaud
* kilobaud
* megabaud
* terabaud

#### Translations
### Anagrams

* Buda, Daub, Duba, abud, daub

## Czech
### Noun

baud m inan
* baud (unit of rate of data transmission)

#### Declension
### Further reading

* “baud”, in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu (in Czech)
* “baud”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989

## Dalmatian
### Etymology

From Latin vōx, vocem, possibly influenced by vōtum.

### Noun

baud f
* voice

## Dibabawon Manobo
### Noun

baud
* pigeon

## French
### Etymology 1

Inherited from Old French baud, bald (“joyous, full of ardor”), from Frankish *bald, *balt, from Proto-Germanic *balþaz (“strong, bold”) (compare English bold, Dutch boud).

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /bo/
* Rhymes: -o
* Homophones: bau, bauds, baux, beau, beaux (general), bot, bots (except regionally)

#### Noun

baud m (plural bauds)
* a type of hunting dog

##### Related terms

* baudet

### Etymology 2

Borrowed from English baud. Named for French inventor Jean-Maurice-Émile Baudot (1845-1903).

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /bod/

#### Noun

baud m (plural bauds)
* baud (unit)

### Further reading

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

## Gothic
### Romanization

baud
* Romanization of 𐌱𐌰𐌿𐌳

## Indonesian
### Pronunciation

* (Standard Indonesian) IPA: /ˈbaud/ [ˈba.ʊt̪̚]
* Rhymes: -aud
* Syllabification: baud
* Homophone: baut

### Etymology 1

Borrowed from English baud, from French baud. Named for French inventor Jean-Maurice-Émile Baudot (1845-1903).

#### Noun

baud (plural baud-baud)
* (telecommunications) baud: a unit of data transmission symbol rate; the number of signalling events per second

### Etymology 2
#### Noun

baud (plural baud-baud)
* Alternative spelling of baut

### Further reading

* “baud” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Verb

baud
* (non-standard since 2005) past tense of by
* (non-standard since 2005) past tense of byde

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Verb

baud
* past tense of by

## Old French
### Alternative forms

* bald, balt, baut

### Etymology

From Frankish *bald or similar Germanic source, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *balþaz.

### Pronunciation

* (archaic) IPA: /ˈbalt/
* (classical) IPA: /ˈbau̯t/

### Adjective

baud m (oblique and nominative feminine singular baude)
* bold; brave
* cheerful; full of ardour

#### Derived terms

* abaudir
* embaudir
* esbaudir

#### Descendants

* Bourguignon: baud
* Middle French: baud
** French: baud
* → Italian: baldo
* → Middle English: bawde, baude (noun)
** English: bawd

## Portuguese
### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈbaw.d͡ʒi/ [ˈbaʊ̯.d͡ʒi], /ˈbawd͡ʒ/ [ˈbaʊ̯d͡ʒ]
* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈbaw.d͡ʒi/ [ˈbaʊ̯.d͡ʒi], /ˈbawd͡ʒ/ [ˈbaʊ̯d͡ʒ]
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ˈbawd͡ʒ/ [ˈbaʊ̯d͡ʒ], /ˈbaw.d͡ʒi/ [ˈbaʊ̯.d͡ʒi]
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈbawd/ [ˈbawð]
* Hyphenation: baud

### Noun

baud m (plural bauds)
* (computing, telecommunications) baud (a rate defined as the number of signalling events per second)

## Romansch
### Alternative forms

* baul (Sursilvan)
* bòld (Sutsilvan)
* bod (Surmiran, Puter, Vallader)

### Etymology

From German bald.

### Adverb

baud
* (Rumantsch Grischun) early

## Scots
### Adjective

baud (comparative mair baud, superlative maist baud)
* bad