boulanger

From Surinamese Dutch boulanger, from French beringène, from Arabic بَاذِنْجَان (bāḏinjān), from Persian بادنجان (bâdenjân). Doublet of aubergine.

boulanger (countable and uncountable, plural boulangers)

1. (Guyana) Eggplant; aubergine.
   • For quotations using this term, see Citations:boulanger.

Pseudo-Gallicism, from French beringène,^[1] from Spanish berenjena,^[2] from Arabic بَاذِنْجَان (bāḏinjān), from Persian بادنجان (bâdenjân). Compare Antilles French bélangère (“aubergine”)^[3] and Antillean Creole bélanjè (“aubergine”).^[4] Doublet of aubergine.

• IPA^(key): /bu.lɑn.ʒeː/, [bu.lɑ̃.ʒeː] (Netherlands), [bu.lɑ̃.ʃeːi̯], [bu.lɑ̃.ʃeː] (Suriname)

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• Hyphenation: bou‧lan‧ger

boulanger m (plural boulangers, diminutive boulangertje n)

1. (Suriname) Solanum melongena; eggplant, aubergine
   • 1937 May 12, “CHATILLON”, in De Surinamer : nieuws- en advertentieblad‎^[1], page 4:

     Vroeger werden allerlei soort groenten opgediend, daarbij wist men nog: het is van mijn eigen grondje. Tegenwoordig alleen boulanger en kouseband en daar zorgt de leverancier in de stad voor.

     In the old days, all kinds of vegetables were served, and people still knew: it comes from my own allotment. Nowadays only aubergines and yardlong beans [are served] and the supplier in town takes care of that.

Inherited from Middle French boulanger, from Old French boulanger, bolengier (“baker”), from Picard Old French boulenc (“bun-maker, bread-maker”), of Germanic origin, from Low Frankish *bollā (“bun”) + -enc (“-ing”), from Frankish *-ing (“-ing”), from Proto-Germanic *-ingaz (“-ing”).

• IPA^(key): /bu.lɑ̃.ʒe/

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boulanger m (plural boulangers, feminine boulangère)

1. baker

• boulangerie
• robot boulanger

• Haitian Creole: boulanje

boulanger

1. (rare) To prepare and bake bread.

This is a regular -er verb, but the stem is written boulange- before endings that begin with -a- or -o- (to indicate that the -g- is a "soft" /ʒ/ and not a "hard" /ɡ/). This spelling change occurs in all verbs in -ger, such as neiger and manger.

• “boulanger”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012