Noun: bagel
| Singular | bagel |
| Plural | bagels |
Sample Sentences
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The Scot, who had been close to a two-set deficit in his semi-final against David Ferrer, avoided the dreaded bagel by seeing off a set point at 5-0 down before finally breaking the Djokovic serve to love as he began to go for his shots with the set seemingly gone. [2011 January 30, Piers Newbery, “Australian Open: Djokovic too good for Murray in final”, in BBC:]
Nouns inflected like bagel
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *bʰewgʰ-
3. Proto-Indo-European *bʰowgʰ-o-sder.
4. Proto-Germanic *baugaz
5. Proto-West Germanic *baug
6. Old High German boug
7. Middle High German boucder.
8. Yiddish בייגל (beygl)bor.
9. English bagel
10. Borrowed from Yiddish בייגל (beygl), ultimately from a diminutive of Middle High German bouc, boug- (“ring, bracelet”), from Old High German boug (“ring”), from Proto-West Germanic *baug, from Proto-Germanic *baugaz (“ring”).
11. Compare obsolete English bee, Old English bēag, Old Frisian bāg, Old Saxon bōg, Middle Low German bōg, Old Norse baugr. Also compare Austrian German Beugel and dialectal Beigel. See also beag. See: English Nouns '
bee', Old Norse Nouns '
baugr'.
Verbs referencing "bagel"
Dutch Nouns
bagel, Finnish Nouns
bagel, French Nouns
bagel, Spanish Nouns
bagel, German Nouns
Bagel, Russian Nouns
бейгл.