German

Bagel

Noun

Bagel m ‎(genitive Bagels, plural Bagels)

1. bagel (toroidal bread roll)

Declension

English

A bagel.

Alternative forms

• beigel (UK)

Noun

bagel ‎(plural bagels)

1. A toroidal bread roll that is boiled before it is baked.
2. (tennis, slang) A score of 6-0 in a set (after the shape of a bagel, which looks like a zero).
   • 2011 January 30, Piers Newbery, “Australian Open: Djokovic too good for Murray in final”, in BBC:

     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.

3. (slang, South Africa) overly materialistic and selfish young Jewish man

Translations

Synonyms

• (spoiled young Jewish man): JAP (US, Autralia)

Coordinate terms

• (spoiled young Jewish man): kugel (South Africa)

See also

• Beuge
• beugen
• Beugung
• Biege
• biegen
• Biegung
• donut, doughnut
• torus, toroid

References

• “bagel” in Douglas Harper, Online Etymology Dictionary (2001).
• bagel on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• gable
• gleba

French

Alternative forms

• baguel

Etymology

From English bagel, from Yiddish בייגל ‎(beygl).

Noun

bagel m ‎(plural bagels)

1. bagel (toroidal bread roll)

Portuguese

Etymology

From English bagel, from Yiddish בייגל ‎(beygl).

Noun

bagel m (plural bagels)

1. bagel (toroidal bread roll)

Spanish

Alternative forms

• baguel

Etymology

From English bagel, from Yiddish בייגל ‎(beygl).

Noun

bagel m ‎(plural bagels)

1. bagel (toroidal bread roll)