baud

English

Alternative forms

• Baud

Etymology

Borrowed from French baud. Named for French inventor Jean-Maurice-Émile Baudot (1845-1903).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bɔːd/
• Rhymes: -ɔːd

Noun

baud (countable and uncountable, plural bauds)

1. (computing, telecommunications) A rate defined as the number of signalling events per second in a data transmission.
2. (computing, informal) bps (bits per second), regardless of how many signalling events are necessary to signal each bit.

Derived terms

• gigabaud
• kilobaud
• megabaud

Translations

A rate defined as the number of signalling events per second

• Arabic: بَاوْد‎ m (bāwd)
• Belarusian: бод m (bod)
• Bulgarian: бод m (bod)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 波特 (zh) (bōtè), 鮑 (zh), 鲍 (zh) (bāo)

• Czech: baud m
• Finnish: baudi (fi)
• French: baud (fr) m
• German: Baud m
• Hebrew: באוד‎ (he)
• Hindi: बॉड (bŏḍ)
• Icelandic: bot n, baud n, (bits per second) bitar á sekúndu m pl

• Japanese: ボー (bō)
• Korean: 보오 (boo)
• Macedonian: бод m (bod)
• Maori: mokotare
• Polish: bod (pl) m
• Portuguese: baud m
• Russian: бод (ru) m (bod)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: бод m

  Roman: bod (sh) m

• Thai: บอด (th) (bòt)
• Ukrainian: бод m (bod)

Anagrams

• Buda, Daub, abud, daub

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Czech

Noun

baud m

1. baud (unit of rate of data transmission)

Further reading

• baud in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu
• baud in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

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Dalmatian

Etymology

From Latin vōx, vocem, possibly influenced by vōtum.

Noun

baud f

1. voice

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Dibabawon Manobo

Noun

baud

1. pigeon

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bo/
• Rhymes: -o

Etymology 1

From Old French bald (“joyous, full of ardor”), from Frankish *bald, *balt, from Proto-Germanic *balþaz (“strong, bold”) (compare English bold, Dutch boud).

Noun

baud m (plural bauds)

1. A type of hunting dog

Related terms

• baudet

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English baud. Named for French inventor Jean-Maurice-Émile Baudot (1845-1903).

Noun

baud m (plural bauds)

1. baud

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Gothic

Romanization

baud

1. Romanization of 𐌱𐌰𐌿𐌳

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

baud

1. past of by

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Old French

Alternative forms

• bald, balt, baut

Etymology

From Frankish *bald or similar Germanic source, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *balþaz.

Adjective

baud m (oblique and nominative feminine singular baude)

1. bold; brave
2. cheerful; full of ardour

Descendants

• Bourguignon: baud
• Middle French: baud
  • French: baud
• → Italian: baldo
• → Middle English: bawde, baude (noun)
  • English: bawd

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Portuguese

Noun

baud m (plural bauds)

1. (computing, telecommunications) baud (a rate defined as the number of signalling events per second)

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Scots

Adjective

baud (comparative mair baud, superlative maist baud)

1. bad