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/, SAMPA: /bi:t/
• Rhymes: -iːt
• Homophone: beat

Noun

beet (plural beets)

1. Common name of Beta vulgaris, a plant with a swollen root which is eaten or used to make sugar.

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
• orach
• spinach

Translations

the root plant Beta vulgaris

Albanian: panxhar m., rrepë f. Arabic: شمندر (ar) Egyptian Arabic: بنجر (bangar) m. pl. Armenian: ճակնդեղ (hy) (č̣akndeġ), բազուկ (hy) (bazuk) Bosnian: repa (bs) f. Bulgarian: цвекло (bg) Croatian: rȅpa (hr) f. Czech: řepa (cs) f. Danish: bede (da) c. Dutch: biet f., kroot (archaic) Estonian: peet (et) Finnish: juurikas (fi) French: betterave (fr), bette (fr) German: Bete (de), Rübe (de) Hebrew: סלק (he) (selek) m. Hungarian: répa (hu) Ido: beto

Italian: bietola (it) f., bieta (it) f. Navajo: łeehdoolʼeez łichííʼí Polish: burak (pl) m. Portuguese: beterraba (pt) f. Romanian: nap (ro) m. Russian: свёкла (ru) (svjókla) f. Serbian: Cyrillic: репа f. Roman: repa 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. Vietnamese: cù cai (vi) Volapük: betad (vo)

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Pronunciation

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

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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