beefsteak

English

Etymology

beef +‎ steak

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbiːfˌsteɪk/

Noun

beefsteak (countable and uncountable, plural beefsteaks)

1. (countable, uncountable) (A) steak cut from beef cattle.
2. (countable) Ellipsis of beefsteak plant, also known as perilla and shiso (Perilla frutescens var. crispa).
   1. (uncountable) The herb prepared from the leaves of the beefsteak plant.
3. (countable) Ellipsis of beefsteak tomato.
   • 2001, Patricia Mondore, A Perennial Faith: Finding Courage to Grow in the Garden of Life:

     I purchased a half dozen of the healthiest-looking beefsteaks I could find, and tenderly planted the young shoots, using plenty of fertilizer and mulch. I faithfully watered them every day and the little plants quickly shot up to an impressive height.

4. (countable) Ellipsis of beefsteak mushroom.
5. (countable, archaic): A celebratory dinner, commonly held in New York between about 1870 and 1940 involving the consumption of enormous quantities of broiled steak and beer.

Derived terms

• beefsteak mushroom
• beefsteak Nazi
• beefsteak tomato

Descendants

Descendants

• → Danish: bøfsteg
  • Danish: bøf
    • → Faroese: búffur
    • → Icelandic: buff
• → Esperanto: bifsteko
• → Estonian: biifsteek
• → French: bifteck, biftèque; beefsteak, beefsteck, beefteak, beefteck, biffteck, biftec, bistec, bisteck
  • → Bulgarian: бифте́к (bifték)
  • → Czech: biftek
  • → Greek: μπιφτέκι (biftéki)
  • → Ladino: biftek
  • → Macedonian: бифтек (biftek)
  • → Japanese: ビフテキ (bifuteki)
  • → Ottoman Turkish: بیفتك‎ (biftek)
    • Turkish: biftek
  • → Romanian: biftec
  • → Vietnamese: bít tết
• → German: Beefsteak
  • → Armenian: բիֆշտեքս (bifštekʿs)
  • → Belarusian: біфштэ́кс (bifštéks)
  • → Georgian: ბიფშტექსი (bipšṭeksi)
  • → Latvian: bifšteks
  • → Lithuanian: bifštekas
  • → Russian: бифште́кс (bifštéks) (see there for further descendants)
  • → Ukrainian: біфште́кс (bifštéks)
  • → Polish: befsztyk
• → Indonesian: bistik
• → Italian: bistecca
• → Japanese: ビーフステーキ (bīfusutēki)
• → Korean: 비프스테이크 (bipeuseuteikeu)
• → Malay: bifstik
• → Occitan: bistèc
• → Portuguese: bisteca
• → Spanish: bistec
• → Swedish: biffstek
• → Tagalog: bistek

Translations

steak

• Arabic:

  Hijazi Arabic: بفتيك‎ m (buftēk, biftēk)

• Armenian: բիֆշտեքս (hy) (bifštekʿs)
• Basque: xerra
• Belarusian: біфштэ́кс m (bifštéks)
• Bulgarian: бифте́к m (bifték)
• Catalan: bistec (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 牛排 (zh) (niúpái)

• Czech: biftek (cs) m
• Dutch: biefstuk (nl) m
• Estonian: biifsteek (et)
• Finnish: naudanlihapihvi, naudanpihvi
• French: bifteck (fr) m
• Georgian: ბიფშტექსი (bipšṭeksi)
• German: Beefsteak (de) n
• Greek: μοσχαρίσια μπριζόλα f (moscharísia brizóla)
• Indonesian: bistik (id)
• Irish: stéig mhairteola f
• Italian: bistecca (it) f
• Japanese: ビーフステーキ (ja) (bīfusutēki), ビフテキ (ja) (bifuteki)
• Kazakh: бифштекс (bifşteks)
• Korean: 비프스테이크 (bipeuseuteikeu)
• Kyrgyz: бифштекс (bifşteks)
• Latvian: bifšteks m
• Lithuanian: bifštekas m
• Macedonian: бифтек m (biftek)
• Malay: bifstik
• Polish: befsztyk (pl) m
• Portuguese: bisteca (pt) f
• Russian: бифште́кс (ru) m (bifštéks)
• Spanish: bistec (es) m, bife (es) m (Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay)
• Swedish: biffstek c, biff (sv) c
• Tagalog: bistek
• Turkish: biftek (tr)
• Ukrainian: біфште́кс (uk) m (bifštéks)
• Vietnamese: bít tết

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English beefsteak.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bif.stɛk/

Noun

beefsteak m (plural beefsteaks)

1. Dated form of bifteck.

Further reading

• “beefsteak” in Dictionnaire Français en ligne Larousse.
• “beefsteak” in Émile Littré, Dictionnaire de la langue française, 1872–1877.

Romanian

Noun

beefsteak n (plural beefsteakuri)

1. Obsolete form of biftec.

Declension

Declension of beefsteak

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) beefsteak	beefsteakul	(niște) beefsteakuri	beefsteakurile
genitive/dative	(unui) beefsteak	beefsteakului	(unor) beefsteakuri	beefsteakurilor
vocative	beefsteakule		beefsteakurilor

References

• beefsteak in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN