beetroot

See also: beet root and beet-root

English

Beetroots

Alternative forms

• beet root, beet-root

Etymology

From beet +‎ root.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈbiːt.ɹuːt/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈbit.ɹut/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˈbiː.tɹʉːt/, [ˈbiː.t͡ʃɹʉːt]

• Audio (AU)

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Noun

beetroot (countable and uncountable, plural beetroots)

1. (UK, New Zealand, Australia) A normally deep-red-coloured root vegetable usually cooked or pickled before eating; Synonym of beet.
2. (usually uncountable) The edible part of the root of a beet plant, raw or prepared.

Synonyms

• red beet
• table beet

Derived terms

• beetroot red
• red as a beetroot

 

Translations

normally deep-red-coloured root vegetable

• Afrikaans: beet (af)
• Albanian: panxhar (sq) m
• Amharic: ቀይስር (ḳäysər)
• Arabic: شَمَنْدَر أَحْمَر m (šamandar ʔaḥmar), بَنْجَر m (banjar)

  Moroccan Arabic: باربة f (bārba)

  South Levantine Arabic: بنجر (banjar)

• Armenian: բազուկ (hy) (bazuk), ճակնդեղ (hy) (čakndeġ)
• Azerbaijani: çuğundur (az)
• Bashkir: сөгөлдөр (sögöldör)
• Belarusian: бура́к m (burák)
• Breton: beterabez (br)
• Bulgarian: чукунду́р (bg) m (čukundúr), черве́но цвекло́ n (červéno cvekló)
• Catalan: remolatxa d'hort f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 紅菜頭／红菜头 (hung⁴ coi⁴ tau⁴)

  Mandarin: 紅菜頭／红菜头 (zh) (hóngcàitóu), 甜菜根 (zh) (tiáncàigēn), (also "sugar beet") 甜菜 (zh) (tiáncài)

• Chuvash: кӑшман (kăšman)
• Czech: červená řepa f,
• Danish: rødbede c
• Dutch: rode biet (nl) f
• Elfdalian: röðbiet f
• Erzya: якстерькай (jaksťeŕkaj)
• Esperanto: beto (eo)
• Estonian: punapeet (et)
• Faroese: reyðrót f
• Finnish: punajuuri (fi), punajuurikas (fi)
• French: betterave (fr) f
• Galician: remolacha (gl) f
• Georgian: ჭარხალი (ka) (č̣arxali)
• German: Rote Bete (de) f, Rote Beete (de) f, Rande (de) f (Switzerland)
• Greek: παντζάρι (el) n (pantzári)
• Greenlandic: rubiia
• Hebrew: סלק (he) (sélek)
• Hindi: चुकंदर (hi) (cukandar)
• Hungarian: cékla (hu)
• Icelandic: rauðrófa, rauðbeða
• Ido: betravo (io)
• Ingrian: vöglä
• Irish: biatas m, meacan biatais m
• Italian: barbabietola (it) f
• Japanese: ビートの根 (bīto no ne), 甜菜 (ja) (てんさい, tensai), テーブルビート (tēburu bīto), カエンサイ (kaensai), ビーツ (bītsu)
• Kashubian: czwikła f
• Kazakh: қызылша (qyzylşa)
• Korean: 비트 (biteu), 비트 뿌리 (biteu ppuri)
• Kyrgyz: кызылча (ky) (kızılca)
• Latvian: biete (lv) f
• Lithuanian: burokėlis m
• Luxembourgish: rout Rommel f
• Macedonian: цве́кло n (cvéklo)
• Maltese: pitrava f
• Maori: pīti whero, rengakura
• Mari:

  Eastern Mari: ушмен (ušmen), йошкарушмен (joškarušmen)

• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: хүрэн манжин (xüren manžin)

  Mongolian: ᠬᠦᠷᠡᠩ
  ᠮᠠᠨᠵᠢᠨ (küreŋ manǰin)

• Navajo: łeehdoolʼeez łichííʼí
• Norman: betterave f
• Northern Sami: ruksesruohtas
• Norwegian: rødbete

  Nynorsk: raudbete

• Persian: چغندر (fa) (čoğondar)
• Polish: burak (pl) m, burak ćwikłowy (pl) m
• Portuguese: beterraba (pt) f
• Romanian: sfeclă roșie f
• Romansch: rischcotschna f
• Russian: свёкла (ru) f (svjókla), (non-standard pronunciation) свекла́ (ru) f (sveklá), (regional) бура́к (ru) m (burák), (regional) буря́к (ru) m (burják)
• Serbo-Croatian: rona f

  Cyrillic: цвекла f, цикла f

  Roman: cvekla (sh) f, cikla (sh) f

• Sinhalese: බීට් (bīṭ)
• Slovak: cvikla f, červená repa f
• Slovene: rdeča pesa f
• Spanish: remolacha (es) f, beterraga f
• Swahili: tini (sw)
• Swedish: rödbeta (sv) c
• Tajik: лаблабу (tg) (lablabu)
• Tamil: பீட்ரூட் (pīṭrūṭ), செங்கிழங்கு (ta) (ceṅkiḻaṅku)
• Tatar: чөгендер (tt) (çögender)
• Telugu: బీట్రూట్ (te) (bīṭrūṭ), బీటుదుంప (bīṭudumpa)
• Thai: บีตรูต (bìit-rúut)
• Turkish: pancar (tr)
• Turkmen: şugundyr
• Ukrainian: буря́к (uk) m (burják)
• Urdu: چکبصور (cukundur)
• Uyghur: قىزىلچا (qizilcha)
• Uzbek: lavlagi (uz), qizilcha (uz)
• Vietnamese: củ cải đường, củ dền
• Volapük: redabetad (vo)
• Welsh: betysen (cy) f
• Wolof: beteraaw

edible part of beet plant

• Esperanto: beto (eo), ruĝa beto
• Finnish: juurikas (fi)

Verb

beetroot (third-person singular simple present beetroots, present participle beetrooting, simple past and past participle beetrooted)

1. (intransitive, informal) To turn a bright red or purple colour.
   • 1919, The Sketch: A Journal of Art and Actuality, volume 108, page 356:

     He straightened up as a spring, beetrooted to the root of his pale hair, and answered wildly, "Ki-Ki-Kan!" I backed prudently towards the door, still keeping that indulgent but firm expression no one sees on the face of warders in lunatic asylums.

   • 2014, Arthur W. Upfield, Bony and the Mouse:

     Harmon's face beetrooted. He strode from the office, stared at the cell block, and swore with artistry.

Translations

to turn red

• Esperanto: purpuriĝi, ruĝiĝi
• Finnish: punastua (fi)

Further reading

• beetroot on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “beetroot”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Anagrams

• boot tree, boot-tree, boottree