English Online Dictionary. What means cake? What does cake mean?
English
Etymology 1
From Middle English cake, from Old Norse kaka (“cake”) (compare Norwegian kake, Icelandic/Swedish kaka, Danish kage), from Proto-Germanic *kakǭ (“cake”), from Proto-Indo-European *gog- (“ball-shaped object”) (compare Persian کوکه Northern Kurdish gog (“ball”); Romanian gogoașă (“doughnut”) and gogă (“walnut, nut”); Lithuanian gúoge (“head of cabbage”)). Related to cookie, kuchen, and quiche. Doublet of coca.
Pronunciation
- enPR: kāk, IPA(key): /keɪk/, [kʰeɪk]
- Rhymes: -eɪk
Noun
cake (countable and uncountable, plural cakes)
- A rich, sweet dessert food, typically made of flour, sugar, and eggs and baked in an oven, and often covered in icing.
- Synonym: gateau
- A small mass of baked dough, especially a thin loaf from unleavened dough.
- A thin wafer-shaped mass of fried batter; a griddlecake or pancake.
- buckwheat cakes
- A block of any of various dense materials.
- Synonym: block
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- Cakes of rustling ice come rolling down the flood.
- (slang) A trivially easy task or responsibility; from a piece of cake.
- Synonyms: piece of cake; see also Thesaurus:easy thing
- (slang) Money.
- 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.
- 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
- (slang) A buttock, especially one that is exceptionally plump.
- Mmm, I'd like to cut me some of that cake!
- (pyrotechnics) A multi-shot fireworks assembly comprising several tubes, each with a fireworks effect, lit by a single fuse.
Usage notes
- In North America, a biscuit is a small, soft baked bread similar to a scone but not sweet. In some cases, it can be hard (see dog biscuit). 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 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 in this image (saltine crackers) are called crackers, while thin, crispy, sweet baked goods like in this image (Nilla Wafers) and this image (wafer sticks) 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: কে’ক (këk)
- → Cebuano: keyk
- → Dhivehi: ކޭކު (kēku)
- → Dutch: kaak (spelling pronunciation), cake (also keek, older also kaaks, keeks)
- → Fiji Hindi: kek
- → French: cake
- → Gulf Arabic: كيك (kēk)
- → Hijazi Arabic: كيكة (kēka)
- → Japanese: ケーキ (kēki)
- → Korean: 케이크 (keikeu)
- → Nauruan: keik
- → Portuguese: queque
- → Russian: кек (kek)
- → Spanish: queque
- → Swahili: keki
- → Tagalog: keyk
- → Yoruba: kéèkì
- → Zulu: ikhekhe
From the plural cakes:
- → Danish: kiks (older also keks)
- → Faroese: keks
- → Icelandic: kex
- → German: Keks
- → Belarusian: кекс (kjeks)
- → Polish: keks
- → Kashubian: keks
- → Vilamovian: kēks
- → Russian: кекс (keks)
- → Ukrainian: кекс (keks)
- → Macedonian: кекс (keks)
- → Serbo-Croatian: kȅks, ке̏кс
- → Hungarian: keksz
- → 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)
- (transitive) Coat (something) with a crust of solid material.
- Synonyms: crust, encrust
- (transitive) To form into a cake, or mass.
- (intransitive) Of blood or other liquid, to dry out and become hard.
Derived terms
- anticaking
Translations
Etymology 2
Verb
cake (third-person singular simple present cakes, present participle caking, simple past and past participle caked)
- (UK, dialect, obsolete, intransitive) To cackle like a goose.
Translations
Further reading
- cake on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- cake on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
References
Anagrams
- akçe
Ambonese Malay
Etymology
Unknown.
Verb
cake
- (angry register) to eat
- Kalu ale su cake jang bicara lai! ― Do not speak when you're eating!
- Synonym: makang
References
- D. Takaria, C. Pieter (1998) Kamus Bahasa Melayu Ambon-Indonesia[1], Pusat Pembinaan dan Pengembangan Bahasa
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from English cake.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /keːk/
- Hyphenation: cake
- Rhymes: -eːk
Noun
cake m (plural cakes, diminutive cakeje n)
- pound cake
Derived terms
- arretjescake
- boerencake
- cakeblik
- cakevorm
Related terms
- cupcake
Fijian
Adverb
cake
- up
French
Etymology
Borrowed from English cake.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kɛk/
Noun
cake m (plural cakes)
- fruitcake (containing rum)
- 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)
Derived terms
- tronche de cake
Further reading
- “cake”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Middle English
Alternative forms
- kake, caake, cayk
Etymology
From Old Norse kaka, from Proto-Germanic *kakǭ.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkaːk(ə)/
Noun
cake (plural cakes)
- A cake (any sort of flat doughy food):
- (medicine) A cake prepared to cure disease or illness.
- (Christianity, rare) A communion wafer.
- (rare) A lump, boil, or ball.
Derived terms
- pancake
Descendants
- English: cake (see there for further descendants)
- Scots: cake
- Yola: caake, kaake
References
- “cāke, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-05.
Spanish
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English cake, from Middle English cake, from Old Norse kaka.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkeik/ [ˈkei̯k]
- Rhymes: -eik
Noun
cake m (plural cakes)
- cake; fruitcake
Tocharian B
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *ték(ʷ)os.
Noun
cake ?
- 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