Masculine
🥓

bacon

Translations

μπέικον

pancetta affumicata

باكون

καπνιστό χοιρινό

Schickermoos

Lachsschinken

Frequency

C1
Pronounced as (IPA)
/be.kɔn/
Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English bacon, from Middle English bacon (“meat from the back and sides of a pig”), from Old French bacon, bacun (“ham, strip of lard”), from Frankish *bakkō, from Proto-Germanic *bakō, *baką, *bakaz (“back”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeg- (“back, buttocks; to vault, arch”). Attested since 1899.

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