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Proto-Indo-European *bʰh₃g-

Proto-West Germanic *bakan

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).

bake (third-person singular simple present bakes, present participle baking, simple past baked or (dialectal) book, past participle baked or (dialectal) book or (dialectal) baken)

  1. (transitive or intransitive or ditransitive, with person as subject) To cook (something) in an oven (for someone).
    I baked a delicious cherry pie.
    She's been baking all day to prepare for the dinner.
    He baked her a cake.
  2. (intransitive, with baked thing as subject) To be cooked in an oven.
    The cake baked at 350°F.
  3. (intransitive) To be warmed to drying and hardening.
    Synonym: fire (pottery in kilns)
    The clay baked in the sun.
  4. (transitive) To dry by heat.
    They baked the electrical parts lightly to remove moisture.
  5. (intransitive, figuratively) To be hot.
    It is baking in the greenhouse.
    I'm baking after that workout in the gym.
  6. (transitive, figuratively) To cause to be hot.
    • 2008 October, Davy Rothbart, “How I caught up with dad”, in Men's Health, volume 23, number 8, →ISSN, page 112:
      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.
  7. (intransitive, slang) To smoke marijuana.
  8. (transitive, obsolete) To harden by cold.
  9. (computer graphics, transitive) To fix (lighting, reflections, etc.) as part of the texture of an object to improve rendering performance.
  10. (figurative, with "in" or "into") To incorporate into something greater.

In the dialects of northern England, the simple past book and past participle baken are sometimes encountered.

to cook in an oven

to dry by heat

to be hot

to become baked

Translations to be checked

bake (plural bakes)

  1. The act of cooking food by baking.
    • 2015, Patricia Grace, Chappy, →ISBN:
      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.
  2. (especially UK, Australia, New Zealand) Any of various baked dishes resembling casserole.
    • 2009, Dictionary of Food: International Food and Cooking Terms from A to Z, →ISBN:
      A fish bake made with cod chunks, sliced parboiled potatoes, […]
    • 2009, Rosalind Peters, Kate Pankhurst, Clive Boursnell, Midnight Feast Magic: Sleepover Fun and Food:
      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.
  3. Any food item that is baked, such as a pastry.
    • 2016, Annie Rigg, Great British Bake Off: Children's Party Cakes & Bakes:
      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!
    • 2024 May 24, The Press and Journal, Inverness, page 28, column 2:
      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.
  4. (US) A social event at which food (such as seafood) is baked, or at which baked food is served.
    • 1904, Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology:
      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; […]
    • 1939, The American Photo-engraver, volume 31, page 289:
      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.
    • 2006, Jeffery P. Sandman, Peter R. Sandman, Soaring and Gliding: The Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore Area:
      […] also featured a fish bake, a dance, and a beach party[.]
  5. (Barbados, sometimes US and UK) 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).

act of baking

baked dish resembling casserole

From Latin pācem.

bake inan

  1. peace
  2. tranquillity, serenity

bake

  1. short form of baketu (“to pacify”)

bake

  1. alternative form of bakke (“bat”)

bake

  1. alternative form of baken (“to bake”)

bake

  1. alternative form of baken (“meal involving pastry”)

bake

  1. alternative form of bak

Negeri Sembilan Malay

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bake

  1. crusted: Having or consisting of a crust.

    1. (of grounds or foods) A more solid, dense or hard layer on a surface or boundary.[1]
      Kue ni bake. ― This kuih is crusted.

  2. ^ “bake”, in Glosari Dialek Negeri Sembilan [Negeri Sembilan Dialect Glossary] (in Malay), Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa Pustaka, 2016, →ISBN, page 5

From Old Norse baka.

bake (imperative bak, present tense baker, passive bakes, simple past bakte, past participle bakt)

  1. to bake (something)

bake (present tense bakar or baker, past tense baka or bakte, past participle baka or bakt, passive infinitive bakast, present participle bakande, imperative bak)

  1. e-infinitive form of baka

bake (Cyrillic spelling баке)

  1. inflection of baka:
    1. genitive singular
    2. nominative/accusative/vocative plural

Cognate with Laiyolo bake.

bake

  1. heart
  2. fruit