beet

See also Beet

English

A pile of beets.

Etymology

From Middle English, from Old English bete, from Latin beta. Most likely of Celtic etymology.

Pronunciation

• enPR: bēt, IPA: /biːt/, X-SAMPA: /bi:t/
• Homophone: beat
• Rhymes: -iːt

Noun

beet (countable and uncountable; plural beets)

1. (singular only, sometimes definite) Beta vulgaris, a plant with a swollen root which is eaten or used to make sugar.

   The beet is a hardy species.

2. (countable) An individual plant (organism) of that species.

   They sell beets by the pound in the supermarket. All I want is the roots. Can I cut off the roots and buy them alone?

3. (countable) A swollen root of such a plant.

Derived terms

terms derived from beet (noun)

beetroot lettucebeet mangel beet

redbeet silverbeet sugar beet, sugarbeet

See also

• Beet on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Beta vulgaris on Wikispecies. Wikispecies: Beta vulgaris
• Beet on Wikimedia Commons. Wikimedia Commons
• chard
• mangelwurzel
• orach
• spinach

Translations

Beta vulgaris

• Albanian: panxhar (sq) m, rrepë (sq) f
• Arabic: شمندر (ar)

  Egyptian Arabic: بنجر (bangar) m pl

• Armenian: ճակնդեղ (hy) (č̣akndeġ) , բազուկ (hy) (bazuk) 
• Bashkir: сөгөлдөр (sӧgӧldӧr)
• Bulgarian: цвекло (bg) (cveklo) 
• Cree: mishkoskatask (cr)
• Czech: řepa (cs) f
• Danish: bede (da) c
• Dutch: biet (nl) f, kroot (nl) (archaic)
• Esperanto: beto (eo)
• Estonian: peet (et)
• Faroese: rót (fo) f
• Finnish: juurikas (fi)
• French: betterave (fr), bette (fr)
• Georgian: ჭარხლის (ka) (charkhlis) 
• German: Bete (de), Rübe (de)
• Hebrew: סלק (he) (selek) m
• Hungarian: répa (hu)
• Ido: beto (io)
• Irish: biatas (ga) f

• Italian: bietola (it) f, bieta (it) f
• Latvian: biete (lv)
• Maltese: pitravi (mt) f
• Navajo: łeehdoolʼeez łichííʼí
• Norwegian: roe (no)
• Polish: burak (pl) m
• Portuguese: beterraba (pt) f
• Romanian: nap (ro) m, sfeclă (ro) f
• Russian: свёкла (ru) (svjókla) f 
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ре̏па (sh) f

  Roman: rȅpa (sh) f

• Slovak: repa (sk) f
• Slovene: pesa (sl) f
• Spanish: remolacha (es) f, betabel (es) m (Mexico), betarraga (es) f (Chile), beterava (es) f (Western Argentina)
• Turkish: pancar (tr)
• Ukrainian: буряк (uk) (burják) m 
• Urdu: چوقبصور (ur)
• Vietnamese: cù cai (vi)
• Volapük: betad (vo)

an individual plant

a root

• Italian: barbabietola (it) f

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Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -eːt
• (Belgium) IPA: /beːt/

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• (Netherlands) IPA: /beɪ̯t/

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Noun

beet m (plural beten, diminutive beetje)

1. bite

Related terms

• bijten

Verb

beet

1. singular past indicative of bijten

Anagrams

• bete

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Latin

Verb

beet

1. third-person singular present active subjunctive of beō