Icelandic

Noun

bakstur m ‎(genitive singular baksturs, nominative plural bakstrar)

1. the act of baking

   Ekki var mjög mikið um bakstur á Íslandi fyrr á öldum.

   Baking was not common in Iceland in earlier centuries.

2. pastry
3. a type of epithem; a compress, a poultice; (soft, moist mass applied topically to sore)

   Hann lagði heitan bakstur við sárið.

   He fomented the wound.

Derived terms

• blautbakstur (a wet pack)
• heitur bakstur (cataplasm, fomentation; epithema tepidum)
• hveiti til baksturs (literally "flour for baking", pastry flour)
• kaldur bakstur (epithema frigidum)
• lyfjabakstur (epithema medicatum)
• þurrabakstur

Related terms

• baka
• bakari
• bakarí

See also

• sérbakaður

Synonyms

• það að baka
• kökur