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A slice of cake (1).
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 Romanian gogoașă (“doughnut”) and gogă (“walnut, nut”); Lithuanian gúoge (“head of cabbage”). Related to cookie.
Pronunciation
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.
- A block of any of various dense materials.
- A cake of soap.
- A cake of sand.
- (slang) A trivially easy task or responsibility; from a piece of cake.
- (slang) Money.
Usage notes
- In British usage, a biscuit is distinct from a cake; the former is generally hard but becomes soft when stale, whereas the latter is generally soft but becomes hard when stale.
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Translations
a sweet dessert
- Abkhaz: please add this translation if you can
- Adyghe: please add this translation if you can
- Afrikaans: koek (af)
- Albanian: tortë (sq) f, kek (sq)
- Amharic: please add this translation if you can
- Arabic: كعكة (ar) (ká3ka) f
- Aragonese: cocca (an) f
- Armenian: տորթ (hy) (tort’)
- Aromanian: please add this translation if you can
- Asturian: pastel (ast) m
- Azeri: tort (az)
- Bashkir: please add this translation if you can
- Basque: pastela (eu)
- Bengali: পিঠা (bn) (piṭhā)
- Breton: gwastell (br) f
- Bulgarian: торта (bg) (torta) f
- Burmese: please add this translation if you can
- Catalan: pastís (ca) m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 蛋糕 (cmn) (dàngāo)
- Min Nan: 雞卵糕 (nan) (ke-nn̄g-ko or kue-nn̄g-ko)
- Corsican: please add this translation if you can
- Czech: dort (cs) m
- Danish: kage (da) c, lagkage (da)
- Dutch: taart (nl) (more elaborate, with cream or fruit), cake (nl) m (more sober), gebak (nl) n
- Esperanto: kuko (eo), torto (eo)
- Estonian: kook (et)
- Faroese: køka (fo) f, kaka (fo) f
- Finnish: kakku (fi)
- French: gâteau (fr) m (large cake served in slices, or a small, individual cake), pâtisserie (fr) f (small, individual cake)
- Friulian: please add this translation if you can
- Galician: pastel (gl) m
- Georgian: ტორტი (ka) (torti)
- German: Kuchen (de) m
- Gothic: 𐌺𐍉𐌺𐌰 (koka) m
- Greek:
- Ancient: πέμμα
- Modern: τούρτα (el) (toúrta) f, κέικ (el) (kéik) n
- Guaraní: mbujape he'ẽ
- Gujarati: કેક (gu) (kēka) f
- Hebrew: עוּגָה (he) (uga) f
- Hindi: केक (hi) (kēka) f
- Hungarian: torta (hu), sütemény (hu), tészta (hu)
- Icelandic: kaka (is) f
- Ido: kuko (io)
- Indonesian: kue (id)
- Interlingua: torta (ia)
- Interlingue: please add this translation if you can
- Irish: císte (ga) m
- Italian: torta (it) f (large cake served in slices), pasticcino (it) m (small, individual cake), dolce (it) m
- Japanese: ケーキ (ja) (kēki)
- Kannada: ಕೇಕ್ (kn) (kēk)
- Kazakh: торт (kk) (tort), кекс (kk) (keks)
- Khmer: នំបារាំង (km) (num baarang)
- Korean: 과자 (ko) (gwaja) (菓子 (ko)), 케이크 (ko) (keikeu), 케잌 (ko) (keik) (North Korea)
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- Latin: placenta (la) f
- Latvian: kūka (lv), torte (lv)
- Lithuanian: pyragaitis (lt) m, pyragas (lt) m, tortas (lt) m
- Luhya: ekeki
- Luxembourgish: Kuch (lb) m
- Macedonian: торта (mk) (tórta) f, колач (mk) (kolač) m
- Malay: kek (ms)
- Malayalam: please add this translation if you can
- Maltese: kejk (mt) m
- Maori: keke (mi)
- Mapudungun: kochü kofke
- Marathi: केक (mr) (keka) m
- Mirandese: please add this translation if you can
- Navajo: bááh łikaní
- Norwegian: kake (no) m
- Novial: please add this translation if you can
- Occitan: còca (oc) f
- Old Norse: kaka
- Pashto: please add this translation if you can
- Persian: کیک (fa) (keyk)
- Polish: ciasto (pl) n, ciastko (pl) n
- Portuguese: bolo (pt) m
- Punjabi: please add this translation if you can
- Quechua: peqachu (qu)
- Rajasthani: please add this translation if you can
- Romanian: tort (ro), prăjitură (ro) f, turtă (ro) f
- Romansch: petta (rm) f (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Surmiran, Puter, Vallader), peta (rm) f (Sutsilvan), turta (rm) f (Rumantsch Grischun, Sutsilvan, Surmiran), tuorta (rm) f (Sursilvan, Puter, Vallader)
- Russian: торт (ru) (tort) m (large cake served in slices), пирожное (ru) (piróžnoje) n (small, individual cake)
- Scottish Gaelic: breacag (gd) f, aran milis (gd) m, bonnach (gd) m, bannag (gd) f
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: колач (sh) m
- Roman: kolač (sh) m
- Slovak: torta (sk) f, koláč (sk) m
- Slovene: torta (sl) f, koláč (sl) m
- Spanish: (birthday or wedding cake) bizcocho (es) m (Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico), cake (es) m (Cuba, Panama - pronounced 'keik'), pastel (es) m (Northeastern Spain, Mexico, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras), ponqué (es) m (Colombia), pudín (es) m (Colombian Atlantic Coast), queque (es) m (Costa Rica, Nicaragua - in Chile: an unlayered cake), tarta (es) f (Spain standard usage), torta (es) f (Argentina, Bolivia, Ecuador, Peru, Uruguay, Venezuela - in Chile: a layer cake)
- Swahili: keki (sw)
- Swedish: tårta (sv) c, kaka (sv) c
- Tagalog: keyk (tl)
- Tajik: кекс (tg) (keks)
- Tamil: கேக் (ta) (kēk)
- Taos: kèke’éna
- Tatar: кекс (tt) (keks)
- Telugu: కేక్ (te) (kēk)
- Turkish: kek (tr)
- Uzbek: tort (uz), kunjara (uz)
- Vietnamese: bánh (vi)
- Volapük: please add this translation if you can
- Walloon: please add this translation if you can
- Welsh: teisen (cy) f
- Yiddish: קוכן (yi) (kukhn) m
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a block of solid material
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- Indonesian: kue tart (id)
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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.
- His shoes are caked with mud.
- To form into a cake, or mass.
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Translations
Coat with a crust
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- Macedonian: закоравен (mk) (zakóraven) m
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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.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
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