beet

See also: Beet and bèèt

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: bēt, IPA^(key): /biːt/

  • Audio (Southern England)

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• Homophone: beat
• Rhymes: -iːt

Etymology 1

A pile of beets.

From Middle English bete, from Old English bēte, from Latin bēta, possibly of Celtic origin.

Noun

beet (plural beets)

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

   The beet is a hardy species.

   There are beets growing over these.

2. (US, Canada) A beetroot, a swollen root of such a plant.

Usage notes

• Unlike beetroot, beet is not usually uncountable when referring to the food: pickled beets (cf. pickled beetroot).

Derived terms

• beet radish
• beet red
• beet root
• beetroot
• beet sugar
• beeturia
• Chioggia beet
• lettucebeet
• mangel beet
• red as a beet
• red beet
• sea beet
• silverbeet
• sugar beet, sugarbeet
• yellow beet

 

Descendants

• → Chickasaw: (from the plural) biits
• → Hawaiian: piki
• → Maori: pīti

Translations

Beta vulgaris

• Albanian: panxhar (sq) m, rrepë (sq) f
• Arabic: شَمَنْدَر‎ m (šamandar), بَنْجَر‎ m (banjar)

  Egyptian Arabic: بنجر‎ m pl (bangar)

  South Levantine Arabic: بنجر‎ m pl (bánjar)

• Armenian: ճակնդեղ (hy) (čakndeł), բազուկ (hy) (bazuk)
• Azerbaijani: çuğundur (az)
• Bashkir: сөгөлдөр (sögöldör)
• Belarusian: бура́к m (burák)
• Bulgarian: цвекло́ (bg) n (cvekló)
• Catalan: remolatxa (ca) f, bleda-rave (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 甜菜 (zh) (tiáncài)

• Cree: mishkoskatask
• 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) f, bette (fr) f
• Galician: beterraba f, remolacha (gl) f
• Georgian: ჭარხალი (č̣arxali)
• German: Bete (de) f, Rübe (de) f
• Greek: κοκκινογούλι (el) n (kokkinogoúli), ζαχαρότευτλο (el) n (zacharóteftlo)

  Ancient: τεῦτλον n (teûtlon), σεῦτλον n (seûtlon)

• Hawaiian: pika
• Hebrew: סלק‎ (he) m (sélek)
• Hindi: चुक़ंदर (cuqandar), चुकंदर (hi) (cukandar)
• Hungarian: cékla (hu), cukorrépa (hu)
• Ido: beto (io)
• Indonesian: bit merah
• Ingrian: vööglä
• Irish: biatas f
• Italian: bietola (it) f, bieta f
• Japanese: ビート (bīto), ビートルート (bītorūto)
• Khmer: មើមស្ពៃ (məəmspɨy)
• Korean: 근대 (ko) (geundae)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: چۆنەر‎ (çoner)

  Northern Kurdish: şilindir (ku), çewender, pincar (ku)

• Kyrgyz: кызылча (ky) (kızılça)
• Latin: bēta (la) f
• Latvian: biete
• Lezgi: чугъундур (čuġundur)
• Low German: Beet (nds) f
• Macedonian: репка f (repka)
• Malay: ubi bit merah
• Maltese: pitravi f
• Maori: pīti
• Middle English: bete
• Navajo: łeehdoolʼeez łichííʼí
• Norwegian: roe (no)
• Occitan: bledarava (oc) f
• Persian: چغندر‎ (fa) (čoğondar)
• Plautdietsch: Beet (nds) m
• Polish: burak (pl) m
• Portuguese: beterraba (pt) f
• Romanian: nap (ro) m, sfeclă (ro) f
• Russian: свёкла (ru) f (svjókla)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ре̏па 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, Peru), beterava f (Western Argentina)
• Swedish: rova (sv)
• Tagalog: remolatsa
• Tajik: лаблабу (tg) (lablabu)
• Talysh: чәғынде
• Tigrinya: ብንጅር (bənǧər), ሱር (ti) (sur)
• Turkish: pancar (tr)
• Ukrainian: буря́к (uk) m (burják)
• Urdu: چوقبدر‎ (cuqandar)
• Vietnamese: củ cải ngọt
• Volapük: betad (vo)
• Yiddish: בוריק‎ (burik)

a root

• Finnish: juurikas (fi)
• German: Rote Bete (de) f
• Greek: κοκκινογούλι (el) n (kokkinogoúli)

  Ancient: τεῦτλον n (teûtlon), σεῦτλον n (seûtlon)

• Hungarian: cékla (hu)
• Italian: barbabietola (it) f

See also

• chard
• mangelwurzel
• orach
• spinach

References

• beet on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• beets on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Beta vulgaris on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Beta on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• beet at University of Melbourne "Sorting plant names"

Etymology 2

From Old English bētan.

Alternative forms

• bete

Verb

beet

1. (transitive, obsolete, dialect) To improve; to mend.
2. (transitive, obsolete, dialect) To kindle a fire.
3. (transitive, obsolete, dialect) To rouse.

Anagrams

• bete

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch beet, variant of biet, from Middle Dutch bete, from Latin bēta.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /biə̯t/, [biət]

• Audio

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Noun

beet (plural bete)

1. beetroot

References

• 2007. The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Department of Linguistics.

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /beːt/

• audio (Belgium)

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• audio (Netherlands)

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• Hyphenation: beet
• Rhymes: -eːt

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch bēte, from Old Dutch *biti, from Proto-Germanic *bitiz.

Noun

beet m (plural beten, diminutive beetje n)

1. bite

Derived terms

• beetgaar
• beethebben
• beetnemen
• beetpakken

Related terms

• bijten

Descendants

• Negerhollands: bit

Etymology 2

From Middle Dutch bete, from Latin bēta.

Noun

beet f (plural beten, diminutive beetje n)

1. Alternative form of biet.

Derived terms

• beetwortel

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

beet

1. singular past indicative of bijten

Anagrams

• bete

Finnish

Noun

beet

1. nominative plural of bee

Latin

Verb

beet

1. third-person singular present active subjunctive of beō

Middle English

Noun

beet

1. Alternative form of bete

Norman

Alternative forms

• baête (continental Normandy)
• bête (Jersey, Guernsey)

Etymology

From Old French beste, from Latin bēstia.

Noun

beet f (plural beets)

1. (Sark) animal