bacon

Etymology
From, from , , from Old Low , from , , an extension of , whence , which see for more. Ultimately from.

Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, whence 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Extension of.

Noun



 * 1) Cured meat from the sides, belly, or back of a pig.
 * 2) Thin slices of the above in long strips.
 * 3)  The police or spies.
 * Run! It's the bacon!
 * 1)  Road rash.
 * 2)  A saucisse.
 * Run! It's the bacon!
 * 1)  Road rash.
 * 2)  A saucisse.

Usage notes
In the UK, the word bacon on its own usually refers specifically to loin or back bacon (similar to the US Canadian bacon). In the US, bacon usually refers to side or belly bacon (referred to as streaky bacon in the UK).

Translations

 * Afrikaans: spek
 * Arabic: بَاكُون, بَيْكُون
 * Armenian:
 * Belarusian: беко́н
 * Bengali: বেকন
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese: ဘေကွန်
 * Catalan:
 * Chickasaw: shokha' nipi' shila'
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 煙肉
 * Mandarin: 熏鹹肉,, ,
 * Cornish: kig mogh
 * Czech:
 * Danish: flæsk
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * Galician:, , , cebullo
 * Georgian: ბეკონი
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew: קותל חזיר,
 * Hindi: बेकन
 * Hungarian:, , baconszalonna, kolozsvári szalonna,
 * Icelandic: ,
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian: daging babi asap,
 * Irish: bagún, muiceoil shaillte
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Kazakh: бекон
 * Khmer: សាច់បីជាន់, សាច់ជ្រូកបីជាន់, សាច់ជ្រូកខ្វៃ
 * Korean: 베이컨
 * Kyrgyz: бекон
 * Ladin: ciociul
 * Latin: laridum
 * Latvian: speķis
 * Lithuanian: bekonas
 * Macedonian: сланина
 * Malay: bakon, dendeng babi
 * Maltese: bejken
 * Maori: pēkana
 * Marathi: बेकन
 * Middle English: bacoun, lard
 * Mongolian: утсан гахайн мах
 * Navajo: bisóodi, bisóodi bitsįʼ niheeshchʼiizhígíí
 * North Frisian: speek
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: (røykt) flesk,
 * Nynorsk: (røykt) flesk, bacon
 * Old English: spiċ
 * Persian: بیکن, لارد
 * Plautdietsch: Spakj
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese: toucinho defumado,
 * Romanian:, ,
 * Romansch: charnpiertg
 * Russian: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: feòil-mhuice
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: сланина
 * Roman:
 * Sinhalese: බේකන්
 * Slovak: slanina
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:, beicon ,  tocineta ,  panceta ahumada ,
 * Swedish:
 * Thai: เบคอน
 * Turkish: domuz pastırması
 * Ukrainian:
 * Urdu: بیکن
 * Uzbek: bekon
 * Vietnamese: thịt muối, thịt lợn muối xông khói
 * Volapük:, svinapined,  bubapined
 * Welsh:, bacwn
 * Yiddish: שפּעק


 * Bulgarian:
 * Chickasaw: shokha' nipi' shila'
 * Finnish: ,
 * Galician: gulerpa
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew: קותל חזיר
 * Maori: pēkana
 * Marathi: बेकन
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: bacon
 * Old English: spiċ
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:,  , stekfläsk
 * Turkish:

Etymology
, from, from , , from , from , , , from.

Attested since 1899.

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Borrowed from.

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From, from.

Noun

 * 1) bacon, salted pork, ham, shank (of a pig)

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Noun

 * 1)  cured meat from the belly, sides or back of a pig

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Alternative forms

 * bacón, beicon

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Noun

 * , streaky bacon

Usage notes
Normally reserved for thin-cut, American-style / streaky bacon made from pork belly. Thick-cut bacon is. Referring to thick-cut bacon as bacon will likely confuse many native Swedish speakers, as most are bound to be unaware that bacon can be thicker in English.