different between ciabatta vs baguette

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian ciabatta (“slipper, bread”). Doublet of sabot.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /t???b??.ta/
• Hyphenation: cia?bat?ta

Noun

ciabatta (plural ciabattas or ciabatte)

1. A broad, flat, white Italian bread.
   • 2011, Caroline Bretherton, Illustrated Step-by-Step Baking, page 426

     Don't waste day-old ciabatta; slice it and bake the slices to make crostini, which will keep for days and can be used for snacks, canapés, or croutons.

Coordinate terms

• focaccia

Translations

See also

• panino
• Ciabatta on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Finnish

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian ciabatta.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t??b?t??/, [?t???b?t???]

Noun

ciabatta

1. ciabatta bread

Italian

Etymology

Of unknown origin shared with Spanish zapato and French sabot and savate. Possibly from Tatar ?????? (çabata, “overshoes”), ultimately either from Ottoman Turkish ?????? (çaput, çap?t, “patchwork, tatters”), from Ottoman Turkish ?????? (çapmak, “to slap on”), or of Iranian origin, cognate with modern Persian ???? (?apat, “a kind of traditional leather shoe”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t??a?bat.ta/

Noun

ciabatta f (plural ciabatte)

1. slipper, thong, mule

   Synonym: pantofola

   • 1981 Gregòrio Bezerra, "I Giorni Dell Oppressione Memorie (1900-1945)"

2. (cooking) ciabatta (flat bread)
   • 2004 Giunti, A. V., "Voglia di Cucinare Pane, pizze, focacce e torte salate"

3. power strip (block of electrical sockets)

   Synonym: multipresa

Coordinate terms

• focaccia

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? English: ciabatta
• ? German: Ciabatta
• ? Spanish: chapata
  • ? Portuguese: chapata

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French baguette (“stick”), from Italian bacchetta.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bæ???t/

Noun

baguette (plural baguettes)

1. A narrow, relatively long rectangular shape.
2. A gem cut in such a shape.
3. A variety of bread that is long and narrow in shape.
4. (architecture) A small molding, like the astragal, but smaller; a bead.
5. (zoology) One of the minute bodies seen in the divided nucleoli of some Infusoria after conjugation.
6. (ethnic slur, mildly offensive, slang) A French person, or a person of French descent.

   Synonym: frog

Synonyms

• (bread): freedom bread (US politics, humorous, rare), French bread (informal), French stick

Translations

References

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian bacchetta.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ba.??t/

Noun

baguette f (plural baguettes)

1. stick, rod, any long thin object
2. (food) baguette, French stick

3. chopstick

4. (music) drumstick; (conductor's) baton
5. wand

6. (firearms) gun-stick, rod for stuffing the gun with ammunition
7. (Louisiana, Cajun French) the barrel of a gun

Derived terms

Descendants

Further reading

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

Spanish

Alternative forms

• baguete, baguet

Etymology

From French baguette.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ba??et/, [ba???et?]

Noun

baguette f (plural baguettes)

1. baguette, French bread (a long, narrow, parbaked bread)

Usage notes

• In Spain, a baguette tends to refer only to a long, narrow, parbaked and poor quality baguette in supermarkets. While a barra de pan is the rest of baguettes and brewed in bakeries.

Further reading

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

Swedish

Etymology

From French baguette.

Noun

baguette c

1. baguette (bread)

   Synonym: pain riche

Further reading

• baguette in Svensk ordbok.