Meaning

3 senses
  1. A toroidal bread roll that is boiled before it is baked.

    Bagel

    бу́бликbúblik, бара́нкаbaránka, су́шкаsúška

    бейґлbejgl, ба́йґельbájgelʹ, бу́бликbúblyk

  2. (slang)A score of 6-0 in a set (after the shape of a bagel, which looks like a zero).

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

More definitions
  • (Yiddish) glazed yeast-raised doughnut-shaped roll with hard crust

Examples

32 sentences
  1. Can I have another bagel?

    Можна мені ще одни рогалик?

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  2. I had a bagel for breakfast.

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  3. You bring the bagels.

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  4. I had a bagel.

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  5. Do you have bagels?

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Translations

8 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
toroidal bread roll that is boiled and then baked:
Русский
By meaning 1
toroidal bread roll that is boiled and then baked:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
toroidal bread roll that is boiled and then baked:

Origin

Borrowed from Yiddish בייגל (beygl), ultimately from a diminutive of Middle High German bo

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”).

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Forms

plural: bagels
Singularbagel
Pluralbagels

regular

Synonyms

2 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • (Yiddish) glazed yeast-raised doughnut-shaped roll with hard crust:beigel

Word family

12 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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