steak

See also: Steak

English

steaks

Etymology

From Middle English steike, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] 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.
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
• Arabic: سْتَيْك m (stayk), سْتِيك m (steyk), سْتِيك m (stīk)

  Gulf Arabic: ستيك m (stēk)

• Armenian: բիֆշտեքս (hy) (bifštekʻs)
• Aymara: aycha canca
• Azerbaijani: bifşteks
• Belarusian: біфштэ́кс m (bifštéks)
• Bulgarian: бифте́к m (bifték)
• 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
• Finnish: pihvi (fi)
• Franco-Provençal: bistèca m
• French: bifteck (fr) m, steak (fr) m
• Galician: bisté (gl) m
• Georgian: ბიფშტექსი (bipšṭeksi), სტეიკი (sṭeiḳi) (slang)
• German: Steak (de) n, Beefsteak 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)
• Ido: bifsteko (io)
• Indonesian: bistik (id)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Italian: bistecca (it) f
• Japanese: ステーキ (ja) (sutēki)
• Kannada: ಹಸಿಬಾಡು (kn) (hasibāḍu)
• Korean: 스테이크 (ko) (seuteikeu)
• Latin: carnis f, caro (la) f
• 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
• Somali: waslad f
• Spanish: bistec (es), bisté (es)
• Swahili: steki
• Swedish: stek (sv) c
• Tamil: மாட்டிறைச்சித் துண்டம் (māṭṭiṟaiccit tuṇṭam)
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: biftek (tr)
• Ukrainian: біфште́кс (uk) m (bifštéks)
• Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can

slice of meat of other animals

• Arabic:

  Gulf Arabic: ستيك m (stēk)

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 肉扒 (juk⁶ paa²)

  Mandarin: 肉排 (zh) (ròupái)

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

  Ancient: φλογίς f (phlogís)

• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Macedonian: стек m (stek)
• Norwegian: steik, stek m
• Portuguese: filé (pt) m
• Russian: стейк (ru) m (stɛjk)
• Spanish: filete 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, Stake, kates, ketas, skate, stake, takes, teaks

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Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈstɛjk]

Noun

1. steak

See also

• biftek

Further reading

• Template:R:PSJC
• Template:R:SSJC

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Dutch

Etymology

From English steak.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /steːk/

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

steak m (plural steaks, diminutive steakje n)

1. steak

Synonyms

• biefstuk

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French

Alternative forms

• steack (less current)

Etymology

Borrowed from English steak.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /stɛk/

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

steak m (plural steaks)

1. steak (of meat or fish)

See also

• bifteck