beet

See also: Beet, bèèt, and be- -et

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: bēt, IPA^(key): /biːt/

  • Audio (Southern England):

    (file)

• 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 (countable and uncountable, plural beets)

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

   The beet is a hardy species.

3. (US, Canada) A beetroot; a swollen root of such a plant used as a culinary vegetable.
   • 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 42:

     In general, beets, carrots, and turnips are all of aphrodisiac value in erotic dietary.

   • 2023 December 5, Ella Quittner, “How WFH Helped Make Sacramento a Great Restaurant City”, in The New York Times‎^[1], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-12-05:

     In the past several years, Moonbelly and Faria, two bakeries whose flaky croissants and elegant loaves rival those at Du Pain et des Idées in Paris, have opened, with rotating offerings of buckwheat coffee cake, roasted bok choy-milk bread buns and focaccia sandwiches stuffed with beet and feta sold under the moniker “girl dinner.”

Usage notes

Unlike beetroot, beet is usually countable when referring to the food: pickled beets (but pickled beetroot).

Hyponyms

• chard

Derived terms

• becurtovirus
• beet armyworm
• beetball
• beetfly
• beet greens
• beet juice
• beetloaf
• beet radish
• beet red
• beet root
• beetroot
• beet sugar
• beeturia
• beet Wellington
• beetworm
• beety
• Chioggia beet
• field beet
• Indian beet
• lettucebeet
• mangel beet
• red as a beet
• red beet
• sea beet
• silverbeet
• sugar beet, sugarbeet
• table beet
• yellow beet

Descendants

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

Translations

Beta vulgaris — see also chard

• 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) (čakndeġ), 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: 莙薘菜 / 莙荙菜 (zh) (jūndácài), 牛皮菜 (zh) (niúpícài)

• Cornish: betys (collective), betysen f
• 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 (ka) (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 (ja) (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) (kızılca)
• Latin: bēta (la) f, acelga
• Latvian: biete (lv)
• 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) (čoġondar)
• 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, betarraga (es) f, beterava f, beterraga f, betarrata f
• 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
• Category:beets on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Beta vulgaris on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Category:Beta on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• beet at University of Melbourne "Sorting plant names"

Etymology 2

From Middle English beten, 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:

  (file)

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/
  • (Belgium) IPA^(key): [beːt]
  • (Netherlands) IPA^(key): [beɪ̯t]

• Audio (Belgium):

  (file)

• Audio (Netherlands):

  (file)

• 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
• hondenbeet
• ooievaarsbeet
• slangenbeet

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)
• bête (Jersey, Guernsey)

Etymology

From Old French beste, from Latin bēstia.

Noun

beet f (plural beets)

1. (Sark) animal