steak

See also: Steak

English

steaks

Etymology

From Middle English steike, from Old Norse steik (“roast; meat roasted on a stick”). The verb is either from the noun or from steikja (“to roast”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /steɪk/

• Audio (US)

  (file)

• Homophone: stake
• Rhymes: -eɪk

Noun

steak (countable and uncountable, plural steaks)

1. beefsteak, a slice of beef, broiled or cut for broiling.
   • 2017, Letterkenny (TV series):

     "Don't fuck up my steak dinner, Darry."

2. (by extension) A relatively large, thick slice or slab cut from another animal, a vegetable, etc.

   venison steak, bear steak, pork steak, turtle steak, salmon steak; cauliflower steak, eggplant steaks

   • 2013 July 26, Nick Miroff, “Mexico gets a taste for eating insects […] ”, in The Guardian Weekly‎^[1], volume 189, number 7, page 32:

     The San Juan market is Mexico City's most famous deli of exotic meats, where an adventurous shopper can hunt down hard-to-find critters […] But the priciest items in the market aren't the armadillo steaks or even the bluefin tuna.

3. (seafood) A slice of meat cut across the grain (perpendicular to the spine) from a fish.

Coordinate terms

• (fish): filet (a slice of meat cut with the grain of the fish)

Derived terms

• flank steak
• steak and kidney pie
• point steak

Descendants

• French: steack
• Thai: สเต็ก (sà-dték)

Translations

slice of beef

• Afrikaans: biefstuk
• Albanian: biftek (sq) m
• Arabic: سْتَيْك‎ m (stayk), سْتِيك‎ m (steyk), سْتِيك‎ m (stīk)

  Gulf Arabic: ستيك‎ m (stēk)

  Hijazi Arabic: ستيك‎ m (stēk)

• Armenian: բիֆշտեքս (hy) (bifštekʿs)
• Aymara: aycha canca
• Azerbaijani: bifşteks, steyk, külbasdı
• Belarusian: біфштэ́кс m (bifštéks)
• Bengali: স্টেক (sṭek)
• Bulgarian: бифте́к m (bifték)
• Catalan: bistec (ca) m
• Cherokee: ᏩᎦ ᎭᏫᏯ (waga hawiya)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 牛扒 (ngau⁴ paa²)

  Mandarin: 牛排 (zh) (niúpái),

• Czech: biftek (cs) m, steak (cs) m
• Danish: bøf (da)
• Dutch: biefstuk (nl) m, steak (nl) m
• Esperanto: steko, bifsteko
• Estonian: steik, biifsteek (et), pihv
• Faroese: steik
• Finnish: pihvi (fi), naudanlihapihvi
• Franco-Provençal: bistèca m
• French: bifteck (fr) m, steak (fr) m
• Galician: estique m
• Georgian: ბიფშტექსი (bipšṭeksi), სტეიკი (sṭeiḳi) (slang)
• German: Steak (de) n, Beefsteak (de) n, Lendenschnitte f, Schnitte (de) f
• Greek: μπριζόλα (el) f (brizóla), μπιφτέκι (el) n (biftéki)

  Ancient: φλογίς f (phlogís)

• Guaraní: bife, so'o pe
• Hindi: स्टेक (sṭek)
• Hungarian: hússzelet (hu)
• Icelandic: steik
• Ido: bifsteko (io)
• Indonesian: bistik (id)
• Irish: stéig f
• Italian: bistecca (it) f
• Japanese: ステーキ (ja) (sutēki)
• Kannada: ಹಸಿಬಾಡು (kn) (hasibāḍu)
• Korean: 스테이크 (ko) (seuteikeu)
• Lao: ສະເຕັກ (sa tek)
• Latin: praecīsum n
• Latvian: bifšteks m
• Lithuanian: bifštekas m, žlėgtainis m
• Luxembourgish: Bifdeck m
• Macedonian: бифтек m (biftek)
• Maltese: stejk
• Marathi: स्टेक m (sṭek)
• Norwegian: steik, stek m

  Bokmål: biff m

  Nynorsk: biff m

• Persian: بیفتک‎ (fa) (biftek), استیک‎ (fa) (esteyk)
• Polish: stek (pl) m, befsztyk (pl) m
• Portuguese: bife (pt) m
• Quechua: aycha kanka
• Romanian: friptură (ro) f
• Russian: бифште́кс (ru) m (bifštɛ́ks), стейк (ru) m (stɛjk)
• Scottish Gaelic: staoig f
• Slovak: biftek m
• Somali: waslad f
• Spanish: bistec (es), bisté (es), filete (es)
• Swahili: steki
• Swedish: stek (sv) c
• Tamil: மாட்டிறைச்சித் துண்டம் (māṭṭiṟaiccit tuṇṭam)
• Thai: สเต็ก (th) (sà-dték), สเต๊ก (th) (sà-dték)
• Turkish: biftek (tr)
• Ukrainian: біфште́кс (uk) m (bifštéks)
• Urdu: سٹیک‎ (sṭek)
• Vietnamese: bít tết, miếng thịt

slice of meat of other animals

• Arabic:

  Gulf Arabic: ستيك‎ m (stēk)

  Hijazi Arabic: ستيك‎ m (stēk)

• Bulgarian: стек m (stek)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 肉扒 (juk⁶ paa²)

  Mandarin: 肉排 (zh) (ròupái)

• Dutch: steak (nl) m
• Finnish: pihvi (fi)
• German: Steak (de) n
• Greek:

  Ancient: φλογίς f (phlogís)

• Latin: praecīsum n
• Macedonian: стек m (stek)
• Norwegian: steik, stek m
• Portuguese: filé (pt) m
• Russian: стейк (ru) m (stɛjk)
• Spanish: filete (es) m

Verb

steak (third-person singular simple present steaks, present participle steaking, simple past and past participle steaked)

1. To cook (something, especially fish) like or as a steak.
   • 2000, Nick Karas, The Complete Book of Striped Bass Fishing, page 353:

     Really large bass can be treated as filets, as we mentioned earlier, or they can be steaked. If they are to be steaked, they should be cleaned like a bass to be baked, scaled, and the skin left in place.

Anagrams

• Keast, Keats, Skate, Skeat, Stake, kates, ketas, skate, stake, takes, teaks

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈstɛjk]

Noun

steak m inan

1. steak

Declension

Declension of steak (velar masculine inanimate)

	singular	plural
nominative	steak	steaky
genitive	steaku	steaků
dative	steaku	steakům
accusative	steak	steaky
vocative	steaku	steaky
locative	steaku	steacích
instrumental	steakem	steaky

See also

• biftek

Further reading

• steak in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• steak in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

Dutch

Etymology

From English steak.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /steːk/

• Audio

  (file)

Noun

steak m (plural steaks, diminutive steakje n)

1. steak

Synonyms

• biefstuk

French

Alternative forms

• steack (less current)

Etymology

Borrowed from English steak.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /stɛk/, (Quebec) /stejk/

• Audio

  (file)

Noun

steak m (plural steaks)

1. steak (of meat or fish)

Derived terms

• envoyer du steak
• s'en battre les steaks
• steak haché

See also

• bifteck

Further reading

• “steak”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.