Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₃g-
Proto-Indo-European *bʰh₃g-
Proto-Germanic *bakaną
Proto-West Germanic *bakan
Old English bacan
Middle English baken
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).
Meanings
The act of cooking food by baking.
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. 2015, Patricia Grace, Chappy, →ISBN:
(Australia, New-Zealand, UK, especially) Any of various baked dishes resembling casserole.
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. 2009, Rosalind Peters, Kate Pankhurst, Clive Boursnell, Midnight Feast Magic: Sleepover Fun and Food:
A fish bake made with cod chunks, sliced parboiled potatoes, […] 2009, Dictionary of Food: International Food and Cooking Terms from A to Z, →ISBN:
Any food item that is baked, such as a pastry.
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! 2016, Annie Rigg, Great British Bake Off: Children's Party Cakes & Bakes:
bake pan
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. 2024 May 24, The Press and Journal, Inverness, page 28, column 2:
(US) A social event at which food (such as seafood) is baked, or at which baked food is served.
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; […] 1904, Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology:
an oyster bake on the shore
[…] also featured a fish bake, a dance, and a beach party[.] 2006, Jeffery P. Sandman, Peter R. Sandman, Soaring and Gliding: The Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore Area:
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. 1939, The American Photo-engraver, volume 31, page 289:
(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).
For quotations using this term, see Citations:bake.
ar خَبز (act of baking) · fi laatikko (baked dish resembling casserole) · nb bakst (act of baking) · fi leipominen (act of baking) · ru выпека́ние (act of baking) · ru запека́ние (act of baking) · fi paistaminen (act of baking) · fi leivonta (act of baking)
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₃g-
Proto-Indo-European *bʰh₃g-
Proto-Germanic *bakaną
Proto-West Germanic *bakan
Old English bacan
Middle English baken
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).
Meanings
(ditransitive, intransitive, transitive, with person as subject) To cook using an oven, especially baked goods. ▸ 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.
(intransitive, with baked thing as subject) To cook using an oven, especially baked goods. ▸ To be cooked in an oven.
The cake baked at 350°F.
(intransitive) To cook using an oven, especially baked goods. ▸ To regularly prepare baked goods.
In some cultures, it is expected that a proper housewife should bake.
(figuratively, intransitive, slang) To cook using an oven, especially baked goods. ▸ To smoke marijuana.
(Let's bake tonight.)
(figuratively, with "in" or "into") To cook using an oven, especially baked goods. ▸ To incorporate into something greater.
Disagreements between pilots' unions are baked into the merger cake. 2014, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Subcommittee on Aviation Operations, Safety, and Security, Airline Industry Consolidation: Hearing, page 36:
Many of the causes of governmental dysfunction are simply baked into the cake of American politics and will never change. 2016, David B. Woolner, John M. Thompson, Progressivism in America: Past, Present and Future, page 100:
(intransitive) To heat or dry. ▸ To be warmed for drying and hardening.
The clay baked in the sun.
(transitive) To heat or dry. ▸ To dry by heat.
They baked the electrical parts lightly to remove moisture.
(figuratively, intransitive) To heat or dry. ▸ To be hot.
It is baking in the greenhouse.
I'm baking after that workout in the gym.
(figuratively, transitive) To heat or dry. ▸ To cause to be hot.
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. 2008 October, Davy Rothbart, “How I caught up with dad”, in Men's Health, volume 23, number 8, →ISSN, page 112:
(broadly, obsolete, transitive) To harden by cold.
They bake their sides vppon the cold, hard stone. 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 9:
The earth […] is baked with frost. 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:
(transitive) To fix (lighting, reflections, etc.) as part of the texture of an object to improve rendering performance.
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(to cook in an oven) · nrf fouângner (to cook in an oven) · eo bakvarmi (to be hot) · alt быжар (to cook in an oven) · ani бежиду (to cook in an oven) · gl asar (to cook in an oven) · uk випіка́ти (to cook in an oven) · be пячы́ (to cook in an oven) · ar خَبَزَ (to cook in an oven) · cy crasu (to cook in an oven) · fi kuivata lämmöllä (to dry by heat) · ja 焼く (to cook in an oven) · cu пещи (to cook in an oven) · ja 焼く (to dry by heat) · de trocknen (to dry by heat) · ru вы́печь (to cook in an oven) · av бежизе (to cook in an oven) · be упячы́ (to cook in an oven) · vo bakön (to cook in an oven) · agj ጋገራ (to cook in an oven) · bg изпичам се (to become baked) · it infornare (to cook in an oven) · et küpsetama (to cook in an oven) · eo baki (to cook in an oven) · rar tunu (to cook in an oven) · as সেকা (to dry by heat) · lv cept (to cook in an oven) · wym bröta (to cook in an oven) · pl wypalać (to dry by heat) · frr bak (to cook in an oven) · be упяка́ць (to cook in an oven) · fi 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