loaf

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ləʊf/
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• Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
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• General-American: /loʊf/
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• rhymes with -əʊf
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• CMU ARPABET: L OW1 F Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *kwel-der.? Proto-Germanic *hlaibaz Proto-West Germanic *hlaib Old English hlāf Middle English lof English loaf * From Middle English laf, lof, loof, from Old English hlāf (“bread; loaf”), from Proto-West Germanic *hlaib, from Proto-Germanic *hlaibaz (“bread; loaf”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps related to Old English hlifian (“to stand out prominently, tower up”). Cognates Cognate with German Laib (“loaf”), Danish and Swedish lev (“loaf”), Faroese leivur (“an oblong bun”), Icelandic hleifur (“loaf”), Norwegian Nynorsk leiv (“loaf”), Gothic 𐌷𐌻𐌰𐌹𐌱𐍃 (hlaibs), 𐌷𐌻𐌰𐌹𐍆𐍃 (hlaifs, “bread”) (whence Proto-Slavic *xlěbъ (“bread”) (see there for further descendants)), Estonian leib (“black bread”), Finnish leipä (“bread; loaf”); also Latvian klaips (“loaf”), Lithuanian kliẽpas (“loaf”). Doublet of chleb and khleb. * (brain or head): Rhyming slang, ellipsis of loaf of bread.

Probably a back-formation from loafer.

151 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: رَغِيف (raḡīf) — block of bread
• Bulgarian: самун (samun) — block of bread
• Bulgarian: хляб (hljab) — block of bread
• Catalan: fogassa — block of bread
• Chinese Mandarin: 一條麵包 /一条面包 (yī tiáo miànbāo) — block of bread
• Cornish: torth — block of bread
• Czech: bochník — block of bread
• Czech: pecen — block of bread
• Old Czech: bochnec — block of bread
• Dutch: brood — block of bread
• Estonian: päts — block of bread
• Finnish: leipä — block of bread
• Finnish: limppu — block of bread
• French: baguette — block of bread
• French: miche — block of bread
• French: pain — block of bread
• Galician: bolo — block of bread
• Galician: molete — block of bread
• Galician: sembra — block of bread
• Galician: panocha — block of bread
• Galician: tarxa — block of bread
• Galician: regueifa — block of bread
• Galician: fogaza — block of bread
• Georgian: ბატონი (baṭoni) — block of bread
• German: Laib — block of bread
• German: Laib Brot — block of bread
• German: Brot — block of bread
• Greek: καρβέλι (karvéli) — block of bread
• Greek: φρατζόλα (fratzóla) — block of bread
• Ancient Greek: ἄρτος (ártos) — block of bread
• Hawaiian: pōpō — block of bread
• Hebrew: כיכר (kikár) — block of bread
• Hungarian: kenyér — block of bread
• Icelandic: hleifur — block of bread
• Icelandic: brauð — block of bread
• Ingrian: bulkka — block of bread
• Irish: bairín — block of bread
• Irish: bollóg — block of bread
• Irish: builín — block of bread
• Italian: pagnotta — block of bread
• Italian: pan carrè — block of bread
• Italian: pane in cassetta — block of bread
• Japanese: パン一塊 (pan hito katamari) — block of bread
• Japanese: パン一斤 (pan ikkin) — block of bread
• Kazakh: бөлке (bölke) — block of bread
• Latin: pānis — block of bread
• Latvian: kukulis — block of bread
• Latvian: klaips — block of bread
• Macedonian: ве́кна (vékna) — block of bread
• Macedonian: сому́н (somún) — block of bread
• Malay: buku — block of bread
• Old Church Slavonic: хлѣбъ (xlěbŭ) — block of bread
• Polish: bochenek — block of bread
• Polish: bochen — block of bread
• Portuguese: pão — block of bread
• Romanian: pâine — block of bread
• Romanian: franzelă — block of bread
• Romanian: jimblă — block of bread
• Russian: буха́нка (buxánka) — block of bread
• Russian: бу́лка (búlka) — block of bread
• Russian: бато́н (batón) — block of bread
• Scottish Gaelic: lof — block of bread
• Serbo-Croatian: вѐкна — block of bread
• Serbo-Croatian: векница — block of bread
• Serbo-Croatian: хле̏б — block of bread
• Serbo-Croatian: хље̏б — block of bread
• Serbo-Croatian: штру̏ца — block of bread
• Serbo-Croatian: vèkna — block of bread
• Serbo-Croatian: veknica — block of bread
• Serbo-Croatian: hlȅb — block of bread
• Serbo-Croatian: hljȅb — block of bread
• Serbo-Croatian: štrȕca — block of bread
• Slovene: hleb — block of bread
• Slovene: hlebec — block of bread
• Slovene: štruca — block of bread
• Spanish: pan — block of bread
• Spanish: hogaza — block of bread
• Swahili: mkate — block of bread
• Swedish: limpa — block of bread
• Taos: pʼȍkúna — block of bread
• Welsh: torth — block of bread
• Yiddish: לעבל (lebl) — block of bread
• Yiddish: לאַבן (labn) — block of bread
• Cornish: torth — block of food
• Estonian: päts — block of food
• Estonian: latt — block of food
• Finnish: mureke — block of food
• Finnish: toppa — block of food
• Finnish: kimpale — block of food
• Icelandic: hleifur — block of food
• Spanish: pan — block of food
• Catalan: testa — head (slang)
• Estonian: kupp — head (slang)
• Estonian: kaalikas — head (slang)
• Estonian: nupp — head (slang)
• Finnish: polla — head (slang)
• Italian: capoccia — head (slang)
• Russian: коча́н (kočán) — head (slang)
• Spanish: mollera — head (slang)
• Spanish: testa — head (slang)
• Catalan: barra — large block of soap
• Finnish: tanko — large block of soap
• French: savonnette — large block of soap
• Italian: panetto — large block of soap
• Portuguese: barra — large block of soap
• Spanish: barra — large block of soap
• Bulgarian: безделнича (bezdelniča) — do nothing
• Catalan: gandulejar — do nothing
• Cherokee: ᎡᏙᎵᏙᎭ (edolidoha) — do nothing
• Czech: zahálet — do nothing
• Dutch: niksen — do nothing
• Dutch: rondlummelen — do nothing
• Estonian: logelema — do nothing
• Estonian: laisklema — do nothing
• Estonian: vedelema — do nothing
• Finnish: maleksia — do nothing
• French: paresser — do nothing
• German: nichts tun — do nothing
• German: herumlungern — do nothing
• German: rumhängen — do nothing
• German: faulenzen — do nothing
• Greek: τεμπελιάζω (tempeliázo) — do nothing
• Greek: κοπροσκυλιάζω (koproskyliázo) — do nothing
• Greek: λουφάρω (loufáro) — do nothing
• Ancient Greek: ῥαθυμέω (rhathuméō) — do nothing
• Icelandic: slóra — do nothing
• Irish: bheith ag leadaíocht (thart) — do nothing
• Italian: oziare — do nothing
• Italian: bighellare — do nothing
• Italian: girovagare — do nothing
• Italian: vagabondare — do nothing
• Italian: trastullarsi — do nothing
• Latvian: slaistīties — do nothing
• Macedonian: де́нгуби (déngubi) — do nothing
• Macedonian: безде́лничи (bezdélniči) — do nothing
• Māori: ānewanewa — do nothing
• Māori: kaweka — do nothing
• Māori: whakapāeko — do nothing
• Māori: whakapateko — do nothing
• Polish: bimbać — do nothing
• Polish: przebimbać — do nothing
• Portuguese: vadiar — do nothing
• Romanian: trândăvi — do nothing
• Romanian: lenevi — do nothing
• Russian: бездельничать (bezdelʹničatʹ) — do nothing
• Spanish: holgazanear — do nothing
• Spanish: estar a la bartola — do nothing
• Spanish: golfear — do nothing
• Ottoman Turkish: تنبللنمك (tembellenmek) — do nothing
• Welsh: diogi — do nothing
• Welsh: stelcian — do nothing