banket

From Dutch banket.

banket (plural bankets)

1. A sweet almond dessert pastry that originated in the Netherlands.

• banketstaaf
• letterbanket

banket n

1. definite singular of bank

From Middle Dutch banket. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

• IPA^(key): /bɑŋˈkɛt/

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• Hyphenation: ban‧ket
• Rhymes: -ɛt

banket n (plural banketten, diminutive banketje n)

1. a banquet, formal, festive meal
2. (countable, uncountable) a pastry made of almond paste and puff pastry
3. (collective, uncountable) any of a variety of sweet pastries
4. (military) a banquette, narrow area behind a defensive wall's parapet, elevated above its terreplein and used by defending infantry to shoot safely at attackers

• Afrikaans: banket
• → English: banket
• → Indonesian: banket
• → Sranan Tongo: banketi

From Dutch banket, from Middle Dutch banket, from Middle French banquet, from Italian banchetto (“light repast between meals, snack eaten on a small bench”, literally “a small bench”), from banco (“bench”), from Lombardic *bank, *panch (“bench”), from Proto-Germanic *bankiz (“bench”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈbankɛt̚]
• Hyphenation: ban‧kèt

bankèt (plural banket-banket)

1. banquet: formal, festive meal
2. (cooking) a pastry made of almond paste and puff pastry

• “banket” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

• banka

banket

1. inflection of banke:
   1. simple past
   2. past participle

From French banquette. Compare bȁnak.

• IPA^(key): /bǎnkeːt/
• Hyphenation: ban‧ket

bànkēt m inan (Cyrillic spelling ба̀нке̄т)

1. A banquet.

• “banket”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025

From French banquette.

banket (definite accusative banketi, plural banketler)

1. (road transport) shoulder (area outside travel lanes)

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “banket”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 462