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Meaning of cept | Babel Free

Verb CEFR C2 Specialized
[ˈt͡sɛpt]

Definitions

  1. to fry (to cook in hot fat, often one side and then the other)
    transitive
  2. to roast, to broil, to grill, to bake (to cook, usually without fat, with heat coming equally from all sides)
    transitive

Equivalents

English Cook roast

Examples

“cept gaļas šķēles uz pannas”

to fry meat slices on a (frying) pan

“cept kotletes, pankūkas”

to fry meatballs, pancakes

“cepts speķis”

fried bacon

“ceptas olas”

fried eggs

“kundze pannā izkausēja krietnu margarīna piku un cepa līdaku”

the lady melted a big slab of butter on the pan and fried the pike (fish)

“cept gaļu”

to roast meat

“cept maizi”

to bake bread

“cept šašliku, desiņas uz iesma”

to broil meat, sausages on a spit

“cept sacepumu cepeškrāsnī”

to bake a pie in the oven

“Oliņu tēvs darīja alu, un Oliņu māte cepa raušus”

Father Oliņš brewed beer, and mother Oliņa baked the cakes

“Mare pašlaik cepa iesmā uzdurtu gaļas gabalu”

Mare is now broiling a piece of meat on a spit

CEFR level

C2
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