Other forms: bagels
A bagel is the chewy ring-shaped roll, famous in New York. A sesame bagel, toasted bagel, bagel and cream cheese.
The chew comes from boiling the dough before baking, which sets a skin and stops the crust rising, and it is what separates a bagel from a bread roll with a hole. It is Jewish in origin and came to America with Eastern European immigrants. The name is Yiddish for a ring.
1nounbagelA chewy ring-shaped roll.
“For breakfast, I had a toasted bagel with cream cheese.”
bagel is a bread.
Yiddish beygl comes from a Germanic word for a ring or bracelet, related to bow.
Yiddish
בייגל
English, today
bagel
Built from
Borrowed from Yiddish בייגל. Yiddish בייגל, 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”). Compare obsolete English bee, Old English bēag, Old Frisian bāg, Old Saxon bōg, Middle Low German bōg, Old Norse baugr. Also compare de-AT Beugel and dialectal Beigel. See also beag.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA