baud

See also: Baud

English

Alternative forms

• Baud

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bɔːd/

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• Rhymes: -ɔːd

Noun

baud (countable and uncountable, plural bauds)

1. (computing, telecommunications) A unit of data transmission symbol rate; the number of signalling events per second.
2. (computing, informal) bps (bits per second), regardless of how many bits are represented by each symbol.

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／鲍 (zh) (bāo)

• Czech: baud m
• Esperanto: baŭdo
• Finnish: baudi (fi)
• French: baud (fr) m
• German: Baud m
• Greek: μπωντ (el) (bont)
• 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, Duba, abud, daub

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

Dalmatian

Etymology

From Latin vōx, vocem, possibly influenced by vōtum.

Noun

baud f

1. voice

Dibabawon Manobo

Noun

baud

1. pigeon

French

Etymology 1

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bo/
• Rhymes: -o
• Homophones: bau, bauds, baux, beau, beaux (general), bot, bots (except regionally)

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).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bod/

Noun

baud m (plural bauds)

1. baud (unit)

Further reading

• “baud”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Gothic

Romanization

baud

1. Romanization of 𐌱𐌰𐌿𐌳

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

baud

1. (non-standard since 2005) past tense of by
2. (non-standard since 2005) past tense of byde

Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

baud

1. past tense of by

Old French

Alternative forms

• bald, balt, baut

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (archaic) IPA^(key): /ˈbalt/
• (classical) IPA^(key): /ˈbau̯t/

Adjective

baud m (oblique and nominative feminine singular baude)

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

Derived terms

• abaudir
• embaudir
• esbaudir

Descendants

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

Portuguese

Noun

baud m (plural bauds)

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

Romansch

Alternative forms

• baul (Sursilvan)
• bòld (Sutsilvan)
• bod (Surmiran, Puter, Vallader)

Etymology

From German bald.

Adverb

baud

1. (Rumantsch Grischun) early

Scots

Adjective

baud (comparative mair baud, superlative maist baud)

1. bad