bake
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
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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).
Inflected forms:
form: bakes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: baking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: baked
pos: verb
tags: past
form: book
pos: verb
tags: dialectal
past
form: baked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: book
pos: verb
tags: dialectal
participle
past
form: baken
pos: verb
tags: dialectal
participle
past
form: bakes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To cook using an oven, especially baked goods.
pos: verb
tags: ditransitive
intransitive
transitive
examples: I baked a delicious cherry pie.
She's been baking all day to prepare for the dinner.
He baked her a cake.
gloss: To cook using an oven, especially baked goods.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The cake baked at 350°F.
gloss: To cook using an oven, especially baked goods.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: In some cultures, it is expected that a proper housewife should bake.
gloss: To cook using an oven, especially baked goods.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
examples: Disagreements between pilots' unions are baked into the merger cake.
Many of the causes of governmental dysfunction are simply baked into the cake of American politics and will never change.
gloss: To heat or dry.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The clay baked in the sun.
gloss: To heat or dry.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: They baked the electrical parts lightly to remove moisture.
gloss: To heat or dry.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
intransitive
examples: It is baking in the greenhouse.
I'm baking after that workout in the gym.
gloss: To heat or dry.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
transitive
examples: My dad told me about his days in the Navy: He'd agreed to be a guinea pig in exchange for a shorter enlistment. […] They baked him in the sun.
gloss: To harden by cold.
pos: verb
tags: broadly
obsolete
transitive
examples: The earth […] is baked with frost.
They bake their sides vppon the cold, hard stone.
gloss: To harden by cold.
pos: verb
tags: broadly
intransitive
obsolete
slang
transitive
examples: (Let's bake tonight.)
gloss: To fix (lighting, reflections, etc.) as part of the texture of an object to improve rendering performance.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: The act of cooking food by baking.
pos: noun
examples: Taking one of her cakes or a tray of biscuits from the oven always gives her satisfaction and a moment of pride; that is, of course, unless there happens to be some little element that doesn't please her with the bake.
gloss: Any of various baked dishes resembling casserole.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
New-Zealand
UK
especially
examples: A fish bake made with cod chunks, sliced parboiled potatoes, […]
If you happen to have small, heat-proof glass or ceramic pots in your kitchen (known as ramekins) then you can make this very easy pasta bake in fun-size, individual portions.
gloss: Any food item that is baked, such as a pastry.
pos: noun
examples: bake pan
Baking parchment should not be confused with greaseproof paper — the former has a non-stick coating and will ensure that your bakes lift out of the tin or off the baking sheets easily, the latter will have the opposite effect!
Traditionally made with flour, salt, yeast and a large amount of fat or lard, it is claimed that the beloved bake has fallen out of favour with younger people.
gloss: A social event at which food (such as seafood) is baked, or at which baked food is served.
pos: noun
tags: US
examples: The central episode is the temporary burial of the novitiate; a shallow pit is excavated, and in this a fire is made, as for a fish bake; […]
I am about to launch a scheme for our local to invest a few dollars in a spot where the boys will know where to find company and pass a few hours or a week-end out in the fresh air and partake of shrimp bakes or fish fries and so forget the on-creeping years.
[…] also featured a fish bake, a dance, and a beach party[.]
gloss: 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).
pos: noun
tags: Barbados
UK
US
sometimes
examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:bake.
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
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:
lang: Albanian
word: pjek
lang: Southern Altai
word: быжырар
roman: bïžïrar
lang: Southern Altai
word: быжар
roman: bïžar
lang: Amharic
word: ጋገረ
roman: gagärä
lang: Andi
word: бежиду
roman: bežidu
lang: Arabic
word: خَبَزَ
roman: ḵabaza
lang: Arabic
word: خبز
roman: ḵabaz
lang: Argobba
word: ጋገራ
roman: gāgärā
lang: Armenian
word: թխել
roman: tʻxel
lang: Aromanian
word: coc
lang: Assamese
word: সেকা
roman: xeka
lang: Avar
word: бежизе
roman: bežize
lang: Azerbaijani
word: bişirmək
lang: Basque
word: labekatu
lang: Belarusian
word: пячы́
roman: pjačý
lang: Belarusian
word: спячы́
roman: spjačý
lang: Belarusian
word: запяка́ць
roman: zapjakácʹ
lang: Belarusian
word: запячы́
roman: zapjačý
lang: Belarusian
word: упяка́ць
roman: upjakácʹ
lang: Belarusian
word: упячы́
roman: upjačý
lang: Belizean Creole
word: bayk
lang: Bengali
word: সেকা
roman: śeka
lang: Bulgarian
word: пека́
roman: peká
lang: Burmese
word: ဖုတ်
roman: hput
lang: Catalan
word: fornejar
lang: Cherokee
word: ᎦᏚᎲᏍᎦ
roman: gaduhvsga
lang: Chickasaw
word: paska
lang: Chinese Cantonese
word: 焗
roman: guk⁶
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 烤
roman: kǎo
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 烘
roman: hōng
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 焙燒 /焙烧
roman: bèishāo
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 烘烤
roman: hōngkǎo
lang: Czech
word: péci
lang: Czech
word: péct
lang: Danish
word: bage
lang: Dutch
word: bakken
lang: Esperanto
word: baki
lang: Estonian
word: küpsetama
lang: Finnish
word: paistaa
lang: Finnish
word: paistaa uunissa
lang: Finnish
word: leipoa
lang: French
word: cuire
lang: North Frisian
word: baag
lang: North Frisian
word: bååge
lang: North Frisian
word: baak
lang: North Frisian
word: bak
lang: Saterland Frisian
word: boake
lang: West-Frisian
word: bakke
lang: Galician
word: cocer
lang: Galician
word: asar
lang: Georgian
word: აცხობს
roman: acxobs
lang: Georgian
word: გამოაცხობს
roman: gamoacxobs
lang: German
word: backen
lang: Greek
word: ψήνω
roman: psíno
lang: Ancient Greek
word: ὀπτάω
roman: optáō
lang: Hebrew
word: אָפָה
roman: afá
lang: Hindi
word: सेंकना
roman: sẽknā
lang: Hungarian
word: süt
lang: Icelandic
word: baka
lang: Icelandic
word: seyða
lang: Irish
word: bácáil
lang: Italian
word: cuocere (al forno)
lang: Italian
word: infornare
lang: Japanese
word: 焼く
roman: yaku
lang: Kazakh
word: пісіру
roman: pısıru
lang: Khmer
word: អាំង
roman: ʼang
lang: Korean
word: 굽다
roman: gupda
lang: Kyrgyz
word: бышуу
roman: bışuu
lang: Kyrgyz
word: бышыруу
roman: bışıruu
lang: Lao
word: ອົບ
roman: ʼop
lang: Latgalian
word: cept
lang: Latin
word: torreō
lang: Latvian
word: cept
lang: Lithuanian
word: kepti
lang: Macedonian
word: пече
roman: peče
lang: Malay
word: bakar
lang: Mongolian
word: жигнэх
roman: žignex
lang: Classical Nahuatl
word: ixca
lang: Norman
word: fouângner
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: bake
lang: Occitan
word: fornejar
lang: Church Slavic
word: пещи
roman: pešti
lang: Old English
word: bacan
lang: Persian
word: پختن
roman: poxtan
lang: Polish
word: piec
lang: Portuguese
word: assar
lang: Quechua
word: watyay
lang: Romanian
word: coace
lang: Russian
word: печь
roman: pečʹ
lang: Russian
word: испе́чь
roman: ispéčʹ
lang: Russian
word: выпека́ть
roman: vypekátʹ
lang: Russian
word: вы́печь
roman: výpečʹ
lang: Russian
word: упека́ть
roman: upekátʹ
lang: Russian
word: упе́чь
roman: upéčʹ
lang: Russian
word: обжига́ть
roman: obžigátʹ
lang: Russian
word: обже́чь
roman: obžéčʹ
lang: Northern Sami
word: bassit
lang: Northern Sami
word: láibut
lang: Sanskrit
word: पचति
roman: pacati
lang: Sardinian
word: infurrare
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: пе̏ћи
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: pȅći
lang: Sicilian
word: nfurnari
lang: Slovak
word: piecť
lang: Slovene
word: peči
lang: Lower Sorbian
word: pjac
lang: Spanish
word: hornear
lang: Spanish
word: enhornar
lang: Swedish
word: baka
lang: Tagalog
word: salang
lang: Tajik
word: пухтан
roman: puxtan
lang: Tetum
word: tunu
lang: Thai
word: อบ
roman: òp
lang: Turkish
word: fırınlamak
lang: Turkish
word: fırında pişirmek
lang: Ukrainian
word: пекти́
roman: pektý
lang: Ukrainian
word: випіка́ти
roman: vypikáty
lang: Urdu
word: پکانا
lang: Uzbek
word: pishirmoq
lang: Venetan
word: còxer
lang: Venetan
word: cóxar
lang: Venetan
word: cósar
lang: Vietnamese
word: nướng
lang: Vilamovian
word: bröta
lang: Volapük
word: bakön
lang: Walloon
word: cure
lang: Welsh
word: pobi
lang: Welsh
word: crasu
lang: Yiddish
word: באַקן
roman: bakn
lang: Yiddish
word: אויסבאַקן
roman: oysbakn