beefsteak

English

Etymology

From beef +‎ steak. Doublet of bifshtek and bistek.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbiːfˌsteɪk/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Audio (US):

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Noun

beefsteak (countable and uncountable, plural beefsteaks)

1. (countable, uncountable) (A) steak cut from a cattle beast (e.g., cow, steer).
   • 2011, Gillian Welch, “Tennessee”, in The Harrow & the Harvest‎^[1], performed by Gillian Welch and David Rawlings:

     Fa la la la
     Fa la la lee
     Now let me go, my honey oh
     back to Tennessee
     It's beefsteak when I'm workin,
     whiskey when I'm dry, and
     sweet heaven when I die
     It's beefsteak when I'm workin,
     whiskey when I'm dry, and
     sweet heaven when I die

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 club
• beefsteak mushroom
• beefsteak Nazi
• beefsteak tomato
• Florentine beefsteak

Descendants

Descendants

• → Danish: bøfsteg
  • Danish: bøf
    • → Faroese: búffur
    • → Icelandic: buff
• → Dutch: biefstuk, (obsolete) beefsteak
  • → Indonesian: bistik
  • → Papiamentu: bifstùk
• → Esperanto: bifsteko
• → Estonian: biifsteek
• → French: bifteck, biftèque (post-1990 spelling), beefsteak, beefsteck, beefteak, beefteck, biffteck, biftec, bistec, bisteck (all obsolete)
  • → Albanian: biftek
  • → Armenian: պիֆթէք (piftʻēkʻ) (Western Armenian)
  • → 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 (bifštekʻs)
  • → Belarusian: біфштэ́кс (bifštéks)
  • → Georgian: ბიფშტექსი (bipšṭeksi)
  • → Latvian: bifšteks
  • → Lithuanian: bifštekas
  • → Russian: бифште́кс (bifštéks) (see there for further descendants)
  • → Ukrainian: біфште́кс (bifštéks)
  • → Polish: befsztyk
• → Italian: bistecca
• → Japanese: ビーフステーキ (bīfusutēki)
• → Korean: 비프스테이크 (bipeuseuteikeu)
• → Malay: bifstik
• → Occitan: bistèc
• → Brazilian Portuguese: bisteca
• → Spanish: bistec, bisté, bisteque
  • → Tagalog: bistek, bistik
    • → English: bistek
• → Swedish: biffstek

Translations

steak

• Arabic:

  Hijazi Arabic: بفتيك m (buftēk, biftēk)

• Armenian: բիֆշտեքս (hy) (bifštekʻs)
• 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 (sv) 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/

• Audio (France (Somain)):

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Noun

beefsteak m (plural beefsteaks)

1. alternative form of bifteck

Further reading

• “beefsteak”, in Dictionnaire français en ligne Larousse
• Littré, Émile (1873–1878), “beefsteak”, in Dictionnaire de la langue française, Paris: L. Hachette

Romanian

Noun

beefsteak n (plural beefsteakuri)

1. obsolete form of biftec

Declension

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	beefsteak	beefsteakul		beefsteakuri	beefsteakurile
genitive-dative	beefsteak	beefsteakului		beefsteakuri	beefsteakurilor
vocative	beefsteakule			beefsteakurilor

References

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