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English

Etymology 1

From Middle English cake, from Old Norse kaka (“cake”) (compare Norwegian kake, Icelandic/Swedish kaka, Danish kage), from Proto-Germanic *kak? (“cake”), from Proto-Indo-European *gog (“ball-shaped object”) (compare Northern Kurdish gog (“ball”); Romanian gogoa?? (“doughnut”) and gog? (“walnut, nut”); Lithuanian gúoge (“head of cabbage”)). Related to cookie, kuchen, and quiche.

Pronunciation

• enPR: k?k, IPA^(key): /ke?k/, [k?e?k]
• Rhymes: -e?k

Noun

cake (countable and uncountable, plural cakes)

1. A rich, sweet dessert food, typically made of flour, sugar, and eggs and baked in an oven, and often covered in icing.

   Synonym: gateau

2. A small mass of baked dough, especially a thin loaf from unleavened dough.

3. A thin wafer-shaped mass of fried batter; a griddlecake or pancake.

   buckwheat cakes

4. A block of any of various dense materials.

   Synonym: block

   • Cakes of rustling ice come rolling down the flood.

5. (slang) A trivially easy task or responsibility; from a piece of cake.

   Synonyms: piece of cake; see also Thesaurus:easy thing

6. (slang) Money.
7. Used to describe the doctrine of having one's cake and eating it too.
   • 2018, The Guardian, "UK's aspirations for post-Brexit trade deal an illusion, says Donald Tusk", Daniel Boffey, Peter Walker, Jennifer Rankin, and Heather Stewart, 23 February 2018

     "It looks like the cake [and eat it] philosophy is still alive." Quote attributed to Donald Tusk.

8. (slang) A buttock, especially one that is exceptionally plump.

   Mmm, I'd like to cut me some of that cake!

Usage notes

• In North America, a biscuit is a small, soft baked bread similar to a scone but not sweet. In the United Kingdom, a biscuit is a small, crisp or firm, sweet baked good — the sort of thing which in North America is called a cookie. (Less frequently, British speakers refer to crackers as biscuits.) In North America, even small, layered baked sweets like Oreos are referred to as sandwich cookies, while in the UK, typically only those biscuits which have chocolate chips, nuts, fruit, or other things baked into them are also called cookies.
• Throughout the English-speaking world, thin, crispy, salty or savoury baked breads like these are called crackers, while thin, crispy, sweet baked goods like these and these are wafers.
• Both the US and the UK distinguish crackers, wafers and cookies/biscuits from cakes: the former are generally hard or crisp and become soft when stale, while the latter is generally soft or moist and becomes hard when stale.

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Assamese: ??’? (këk)
• ? Dutch: kaak, cake (also keek, older also kaaks, keeks)
• ? French: cake
• ? Gulf Arabic: ???? (k?k)
• ? Hijazi Arabic: ????? (k?ka)
• ? Japanese: ??? (k?ki)
• ? Korean: ??? (keikeu)
• ? Nauruan: keik
• ? Portuguese: queque
• ? Russian: ??? (kek)
• ? Spanish: queque

From the plural cakes:

• ? Danish: kiks
  • ? Faroese: keks
• ? German: Keks
  • ? Polish: keks
  • ? Russian: ???? (keks)
  • ? Serbo-Croatian: k?ks, ?????
• ? Icelandic: kex
• ? Norwegian:

  Bokmål: kjeks

  Nynorsk: kjeks

• ? Swedish: kex
  • ? Finnish: keksi

Translations

See also

• Category:Cakes and pastries

Verb

cake (third-person singular simple present cakes, present participle caking, simple past and past participle caked)

1. (transitive) Coat (something) with a crust of solid material.

   Synonyms: crust, encrust

2. (transitive) To form into a cake, or mass.
3. (intransitive) Of blood or other liquid, to dry out and become hard.

Translations

Etymology 2

Verb

cake (third-person singular simple present cakes, present participle caking, simple past and past participle caked)

1. (Britain, dialect, obsolete, intransitive) To cackle like a goose.

Translations

Further reading

• cake on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• cake on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Anagrams

• akçe

Ambonese Malay

Etymology

Unknown.

Verb

cake

1. to eat (only used during heated conversations)

   Synonym: makang

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English cake.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ke?k/
• Hyphenation: cake
• Rhymes: -e?k

Noun

cake m (plural cakes, diminutive cakeje n)

1. pound cake

Derived terms

• boerencake
• cakeblik
• cakevorm

Related terms

• cupcake

Fijian

Adverb

cake

1. up

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English cake.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?k/

Noun

cake m (plural cakes)

1. fruitcake (containing rum).
2. quick bread (a smallish loaf-shaped baked good which may be sweet like an English cake or salty and with bits of meat. See insert).

Further reading

• “cake” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Middle English

Alternative forms

• kake, caake, cayk

Etymology

From Old Norse kaka, from Proto-Germanic *kak?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ka?k(?)/

Noun

cake (plural cakes)

1. cake (any sort of flat doughy food)
2. (medicine) A cake prepared to cure disease or illness.
3. (Christianity, rare) The communion wafer or host.
4. (rare) A lump, boil, or ball; a cake-shaped object.

Derived terms

• pancake

Descendants

• English: cake (see there for further descendants)
• Scots: cake
• Yola: caake, kaake

References

• “c?ke, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-05.

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from English cake, from Middle English cake, from Old Norse kaka.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?keik/, [?kei?k]

Noun

cake m (plural cakes)

1. cake; fruitcake

Tocharian B

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *ték(?)os.

Noun

cake ?

1. river

References

• Adams, Douglas Q. (2013) A Dictionary of Tocharian B: Revised and Greatly Enlarged (Leiden Studies in Indo-European; 10), Amsterdam, New York: Rodopi, ?ISBN

Abinomn

Pronoun

por

1. you (dual)

Albanian

Etymology

From po. Alternatively from Latin porr? (“then, moreover; but”), the loss of the final -r a result of the permanent unstressed position of the conjunction.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [p??]

Conjunction

por

1. but; however

Synonyms

• megjithatë, mirëpo, ama

References

Asturian

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *por, from Latin pr? and per.

Preposition

por

1. for
2. by

Derived terms

Atong (India)

Etymology

From English four.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /por/

Numeral

por (Bengali script ???)

1. four

Synonyms

• byryi
• cha / char

References

• van Breugel, Seino. 2015. Atong-English dictionary, second edition. Available online: https://www.academia.edu/487044/Atong_English_Dictionary. Stated in Appendix 2.

Blagar

Noun

por

1. earth, world
2. land
3. island

References

• Internet Archive, The Rosetta Project, Blagar Swadesh List
• Wycliffe Bible Translators, Pura Alkitab
• Antoinette Schapper, The Papuan Languages of Timor, Alor and Pantar: Volume 1 (2014), p. 163

Catalan

Etymology 1

From Old Occitan paor, from Latin pavor, pav?rem, attested from the 12th century. Compare French peur, Italian paura.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /?po/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /?po?/

Noun

por f (plural pors)

1. fear

Derived terms

• poruc

Etymology 2

Noun

por m (plural pors)

1. Alternative form of porus (“pore”)

References

Further reading

• “por” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “por” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “por” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Cornish

Noun

por f (singulative poren)

1. leeks

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?r

Verb

por

1. first-person singular present indicative of porren
2. imperative of porren

Esperanto

Etymology

From Spanish por.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /por/
• Hyphenation: por

Preposition

por

1. for, for the benefit of

See also

• per
• pro

Fala

Etymology

From Old Portuguese por, from Vulgar Latin *por, from Latin pr? (“for”), from Proto-Indo-European *pro-, form of *per-.

Preposition

por

1. by

Galician

Etymology

From Old Portuguese por, from Vulgar Latin *por, from Latin pr? (“for”) (with metathetic shift due to per), from Proto-Indo-European *pro-, form of *por-. See also porto

Preposition

por

1. Indicates motion.

   pola rúa

   down the street

   pola porta

   through the door

2. for (over a period of time)

   por dez anos

   for ten years

3. about, around (near, in the vicinity of)

   polas seis

   at about six

   por aquí

   over here

4. for (to obtain)

   Fun á tenda por xabón.

   I went to the store for soap.

5. for (in exchange for)
6. for (on behalf of)
7. (mathematics) times, by, multiplied by

8. by (indicates the actor in a clause with its verb in the passive voice)
9. by, by means of
10. per

Derived terms

• polo
• por favor
• por tanto

Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?por]
• Hyphenation: por
• Rhymes: -or

Noun

por (plural porok)

1. dust
2. powder
3. (with a possessive suffix) ashes (human or animal remains after cremation)

   Synonym: hamvak

Declension

Derived terms

Further reading

• por in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN

Ido

Etymology

From Esperanto por.

Preposition

por

1. for

Lolopo

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [p?o²¹]

Suffix

por

1. (Yao'an, of humans) male

See also

• bol
• mo

Norman

Etymology

From Old French porc, from Latin porcus, from Proto-Indo-European *por?- (“young swine, young pig”).

Noun

por m (plural pors)

1. (Jersey) pig

   Synonyms: bête à saie, couochon, gronneux, moussieu, quétot

Old French

Alternative forms

• pur

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *por, from Latin pr?.

Preposition

por

1. for (in order to)
2. for (belonging to)

Descendants

• Middle French: pour
  • French: pour
• Norman: pouor, pour

Old Occitan

Etymology

From Latin porr?.

Adverb

por

1. forwards

Papiamentu

Etymology

From Portuguese poder and Spanish poder.

Verb

por

1. can, to be able to
2. may

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p?r/

Etymology 1

From Italian porro, from Latin porrum.

Noun

por m inan

1. leek

Declension

Etymology 2

From Latin porus, from Ancient Greek ????? (póros).

Noun

por m inan

1. pore

Declension

Further reading

• por in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Etymology 1

Merger of Old Portuguese por, from Vulgar Latin *por, from Latin pr? (“for”) (with metathetic shift due to per), and Old Portuguese per, from Latin per (“through, by”).

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /pu?/, /po?/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /pu?/, /po?/
  • (Paulista) IPA^(key): [pu?], [pu?], [po?], [po?]
  • (South Brazil) IPA^(key): [po?], [po?], [pu?], [pu?]
  • Homophone: pôr (with /o/)

Preposition

por

2. for (on behalf of)

4. for (in order to obtain)

6. for (over a period of time)

8. for (indicates something given in an exchange)

10. by (through the action or presence of)

12. by (indicates the creator of a work)

14. by (using the rules or logic of)

15. (mathematics) times, by, multiplied by

17. by; in the name of (indicates an oath)

19. per; a; each (expresses the ratio of units)

21. (arithmetic) by (indicates a mathematical division)

23. through (entering and then leaving; being the medium of)

25. around; about; near (in the vicinity of)

27. around; about; approximately (close in quantity, amount or value to)

29. throughout (in various parts of)

31. for; in favour of (supporting)

33. (in the formula “X por Y”, where X is a clause and Y the infinitive of the verb in the clause, or of a synonym) for its own sake; without a motive

Usage notes

Por mandatorily contracts with definite articles in almost all circumstances:

• por + o ? pelo
• por + os ? pelos
• por + a ? pela
• por + as ? pelas

Contractions with indefinite articles and personal pronouns are uncommon and very colloquial:

• por + um ? prum
• por + uns ? pruns
• por + uma ? pruma
• por + umas ? prumas

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:por.

Synonyms

• (over a period of time): durante
• (indicates an exchange): em troca de, a troco de (especially in figurative usage)
• (using the rules or logic of): de acordo com, segundo
• (in the name of): em nome de
• (each): cada
• (through): através de, pelo meio de
• (in the vicinity of): perto de, ao redor de
• (approximately): perto de, ao redor de, mais ou menos, aproximadamente, cerca de
• (throughout): em ... inteiro
• (in favour of): a favor de

Derived terms

• porque
• por que
• porquê

Etymology 2

Verb

por

1. Obsolete spelling of pôr, now a common misspelling

Romani

Noun

por m (plural por{{{4}}})

1. feather

Romanian

Etymology 1

Borrowed from French pore, Latin porus, from Ancient Greek ????? (póros, “passage”).

Noun

por m (plural pori)

1. pore

Related terms

• poros

Etymology 2

From Latin porrus or porrum.

Alternative forms

• pur

Noun

por m (plural pori)

1. (popular) leek (Allium ampeloprasum, syn. Allium porrum)
2. (popular) sand leek (Allium scorodoprasum)
3. (popular) shallot (Allium ascalonicum)

Synonyms

• (leek): praz

Slovene

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin porrum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pó?r/, /p??r/

Noun

p??r or p?r m inan

1. leek

Inflection

Further reading

• “por”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran

Spanish

Etymology

From Old Spanish por, from Vulgar Latin *por, from Latin pr? and per. Doublet of pro.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /po?/, [po?]

Preposition

por

2. by (indicates the creator of a work)

4. for (indicates something given in an exchange)

5. through, out, via (indicating movement)

6. across (indicating movement)

7. about
8. due to, because of, for, for the sake of, out of (to express cause or motive)

9. (used with directions) over

10. (mathematics) times, by, multiplied by

11. according to, for, regarding (to express opinion or something concerning someone)

12. via, through, by (indicating the means of something)

13. for (indicating duration)

14. for, for the sake of, on behalf of (indicating doing something for someone's benefit)

15. per, for each

16. to (indicating something that has not yet passed)

17. about to (indicating something that will soon happen)

18. compared to; against; versus (indicating a comparison)

Derived terms

See also

• para

Further reading

• “por” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

Swedish

Noun

por c

1. pore

Declension

Anagrams

• rop

Tocharian A

Etymology

From Proto-Tocharian, from Proto-Indo-European *péh?wr?, also the origin of English fire, Ancient Greek ??? (pûr), and Hittite ???????????? (pa??ur). Compare Tocharian B puwar.

Noun

por

1. fire

Tok Pisin

Noun

por

1. monohull dugout canoe