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^(key): /biːt/
• Homophone: beat
• Rhymes: -iːt

Noun

beet (countable and uncountable, plural beets)

1. (countable) 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. (countable) A beetroot, a swollen root of such a plant.

Derived terms

terms derived from beet (noun)

• beetroot
• beeturia
• lettucebeet
• mangel beet

• red beet
• silverbeet
• sugar beet, sugarbeet

Translations

Beta vulgaris

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

  Egyptian Arabic: بنجر‎‎ m pl (bangar)

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

  Mandarin: 甜菜 (zh) (tiáncài)

• Cree: mishkoskatask (mishkoskatask)
• Czech: řepa (cs) f
• Danish: bede (da) c
• Dutch: biet (nl) f, kroot (archaic)
• Esperanto: beto
• Estonian: peet
• Faroese: rót f
• Finnish: juurikas (fi)
• French: betterave (fr) f, bette (fr) f
• Galician: remolacha (gl) f
• Georgian: ჭარხლის (č̣arxlis), ჭარხალი (č̣arxali)
• German: Bete f, Rübe (de) f
• Greek: κοκκινογούλι (el) n (kokkinogoúli), ζαχαρότευτλο (el) n (zacharóteftlo)
• Hebrew: סלק‎‎ (he) m (selek)
• Hindi: चुकंदर (hi) (cukandar)
• Hungarian: cékla (hu), cukorrépa (hu)
• Ido: beto (io)
• Ingrian: vööglä
• Irish: biatas f
• Italian: bietola (it) f, bieta f

• Khmer: មើមស្ពៃ (məəmspɨy)
• Korean: 근대 (ko) (geundae)
• Latin: beta (la) f
• Latvian: biete
• Lezgi: чугъундур (čuġundur)
• Low German: Beet (nds) f
• Macedonian: репка f (repka)
• Maltese: pitravi f
• Maori: pīti
• Navajo: łeehdoolʼeez łichííʼí
• Norwegian: roe (no)
• Persian: چغندر‎‎ (fa) (čoğondar)
• 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 f
• Slovene: pesa (sl) f
• Spanish: remolacha (es) f, betabel m (Mexico), betarraga f (Chile), beterava f (Western Argentina)
• Tagalog: remolatsa
• Tajik: лаблабу (tg) (lablabu)
• Turkish: pancar (tr)
• Ukrainian: буря́к (uk) m (burják)
• Urdu: چوقبدر‎‎ (cuqandar)
• Vietnamese: cù cai
• Volapük: betad (vo)
• Yiddish: בוריק‎‎ (burik)

a root

• Greek: κοκκινογούλι (el) n (kokkinogoúli)
• 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"

Anagrams

• bete

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Afrikaans

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [biət]

Noun

beet (plural [please provide])

1. beetroot

References

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

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Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -eːt
• IPA^(key): /beːt/

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Etymology 1

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

Noun

beet m (plural beten, diminutive beetje n)

1. bite

Related terms

• bijten

Etymology 2

See etymology on the main entry.

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

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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