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bagel.

bagel (toroidal bread roll)

5 characters2 syllables approx.Français language

Meaning & usage

noun/ba.ɡɛl//be.ɡœl/
  1. bagel (toroidal bread roll)

    masculine
Where this word comes from

Borrowed from English bagel, from Yiddish בייגל (beygl); ultimately from Middle High German bouc, boug- (“ring, bracelet”), from Old High German boug (“ring”), from Proto-Germanic *baug- (“ring”) plus *-il (noun suffix).

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