bake

Meaning

Verb

1. (ditransitive, intransitive, transitive) To cook (something) in an oven (for someone).
2. (intransitive) To be cooked in an oven.
3. (intransitive) To be warmed to drying and hardening.
4. (transitive) To dry by heat.
5. (figuratively, intransitive) To be hot.
6. (figuratively, transitive) To cause to be hot.
7. (intransitive, slang) To smoke marijuana.
8. (obsolete, transitive) To harden by cold.
9. (transitive) To fix (lighting, reflections, etc.) as part of the texture of an object to improve rendering performance.
10. (figuratively) To incorporate into something greater.

Noun

1. The act of cooking food by baking.
2. (Australia, New-Zealand, UK, especially) Any of various baked dishes resembling casserole.
3. Any food item that is baked, such as a pastry.
4. (US) A social event at which food (such as seafood) is baked, or at which baked food is served.
5. (Barbados, UK, US, sometimes) 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).

Synonyms

roast

grill

burn

cook

🧑‍🍳

broil

toast

barbecue

fire

🔥

fry

cure

light

become hard

warm

☀️

scorch

sear

become hardened

harden

heat

microwave

nuke

oven

overheat

parch

pie

🥧

plate

print

put out

retire

season

set on fire

shine

smoke

stick

sting

strike out

suffocate

swelter

tag

torch

torrefy

urticate

set afire

turn brown

burn into one’s memory

braai

cook in an oven

set baking

set cooking

ovenbake

burning-off

Translations

backen

bakken

hornear

cocer

ψήνω

cuocere

🧑‍🍳

cuire

🧑‍🍳

cuire au four

assar

griller

cuocere al forno

braten

cozer

asar

Pronounced as (IPA)

/beɪk/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: baken

Inherited from Old English: bacan

Cognate with Western Frisian: bakke

Cognate with Dutch: bakken

Cognate with Low German: backen

Cognate with German: backen

Cognate with Norwegian Bokmål: bake

Cognate with Danish: bage

Cognate with Swedish: baka

Cognate with Ancient Greek: φώγω

In summary

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”), Swedish baka (“to bake”), Ancient Greek φώγω (phṓgō, “roast”, verb).