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. (singular only, sometimes definite) Beta vulgaris, a plant with a swollen root which is eaten or used to make sugar.

   The beet is a hardy species.

2. (countable) An individual plant (organism) of that species.

   They sell beets by the pound in the supermarket. All I want is the roots. Can I cut off the roots and buy them alone?

3. (countable) 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

See also

• Beet on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Beta vulgaris on Wikispecies. Wikispecies: Beta vulgaris
•  Beet on Wikimedia Commons. Wikimedia Commons
• chard
• mangelwurzel
• orach
• spinach

Translations

Beta vulgaris

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

  Egyptian Arabic: بنجر m pl (bangar)

• Armenian: ճակնդեղ (čakndeł), բազուկ (bazuk)
• Azeri: çuğundur (az)
• Bashkir: сөгөлдөр (sögöldör)
• Belarusian: бура́к m (burák)
• Bulgarian: цвекло́ (bg) n (cvekló)
• Cree: 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
• Georgian: ჭარხლის (čarxlis)
• German: Bete f, Rübe (de) f
• Hebrew: סלק (he) m (selek)
• Hindi: चुकंदर (cukandar)
• Hungarian: cékla (hu), cukorrépa (hu)
• Ido: beto (io)

• Irish: biatas f
• Italian: bietola (it) f, bieta f
• Latvian: biete (lv)
• Macedonian: ре́пка f (répka)
• Maltese: pitravi f
• 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 f

• Slovak: repa f
• Slovene: pesa (sl) f
• Spanish: remolacha (es) f, betabel m (Mexico), betarraga f (Chile), beterava f (Western Argentina)
• Turkish: pancar (tr)
• Ukrainian: буря́к (uk) m (burják)
• Urdu: چوقبصور (cuqundur)
• Vietnamese: cù cai
• Volapük: betad (vo)

an individual plant

a root

• Hungarian: cékla (hu)

• Italian: barbabietola (it) f

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Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -eːt
• (Belgium) IPA^(key): /beːt/

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• (Netherlands) IPA^(key): /beɪ̯t/

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Noun

beet m (plural beten, diminutive beetje n)

1. bite

Related terms

• bijten

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