Brezel

Meaning

pretzel; any kind of baked good in the form of a loose knot

Concepts

pretzel

🥨

bagel

🥯

Synonyms

Breze

🥨

Brezn

Bretzel

Kringel

➿

Gebäck

Laugenbrezel

Pretzel

Gewinde

🧵

Schraube

Windung

Salzbrezel

Translations

bretzel

🥨

pretzel

pretzel

simit

krakeling

pretzel

🥨

rosca

🍩

rosquilla

🍩

gevrek

brètzel

pretzel

κουλούρα

κουλούρι

Dialects

Basel-Landschaft

brätzel

Data provided by: Deutsch-Schweizerdeutsches Wörterbuch

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈbreːtsəl/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle High German: brēzel

Inherited from Old High German: brezitella

In summary

From Middle High German brēzel, from Old High German brezitella, borrowed from Vulgar Latin *brāchiātellus (“small cake”), from Latin bracchiātus (“have branches like arms”), from bracchium (“arm”) + -ātus.