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Inherited from Middle English bakere, from Old English bæcere (baker), from Proto-Germanic *bakārijaz (baker), equivalent to bake +‎ -er. Cognate with Dutch bakker (baker), German Bäcker (baker), Norwegian Bokmål baker (baker), Swedish bagare (baker), Icelandic bakari (baker).

baker (plural bakers)

  1. A person who bakes and sells bread, cakes and similar items.
    • 2006, Edwin Black, chapter 2, in Internal Combustion[1]:

      But through the oligopoly, charcoal fuel proliferated throughout London's trades and industries.  By the 1200s, brewers and bakers, tilemakers, glassblowers, pottery producers, and a range of other craftsmen all became hour-to-hour consumers of charcoal.

  2. A portable oven for baking.
  3. An apple suitable for baking.
    • 1975, Irma S. Rombauer, Marion Rombauer Becker, Joy of Cooking, page 129:

      Wealthys and McIntoshes are not good bakers.

  • (person who bakes): baxter (obsolete, Britain, Scotland), dougher (obsolete)

person who bakes and sells bread, etc

Short for bakermoeder.

baker f (plural bakers, diminutive bakertje n)

  1. (historical) a midwife; one who helps women in childbirth with deliveries

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

baker

  1. inflection of bakeren:
    1. first-person singular present indicative
    2. (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
    3. imperative

baker

  1. bone

From Danish bager, from Old Norse bakari, from Proto-Germanic *bakārijaz.

baker m (definite singular bakeren, indefinite plural bakere, definite plural bakerne)

  1. a baker (person who bakes professionally)

baker m pl

  1. indefinite plural of bak

baker

  1. present tense of bake

baker

  1. present of baka
  2. present of bake
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Borrowed from Serbo-Croatian bàkar, from Ottoman Turkish باقیر (bakır), from Proto-Turkic *bakïr.

bákər m inan

  1. copper (metal)
Masculine inan., hard o-stem
nominative báker
genitive bákra
singular
nominative
(imenovȃlnik)
báker
genitive
(rodȋlnik)
bákra
dative
(dajȃlnik)
bákru
accusative
(tožȋlnik)
báker
locative
(mẹ̑stnik)
bákru
instrumental
(orọ̑dnik)
bákrom
  • baker”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran