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English
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
A pile of beets.
From Middle English bete , from Old English bēte , from Latin bēta , possibly of Celtic origin.
Noun
beet (plural beets )
Beta vulgaris , a plant with a swollen root which is eaten or used to make sugar.
The beet is a hardy species.
( US , Canada ) A beetroot , a swollen root of such a plant.
Usage notes
Unlike beetroot , beet is not usually uncountable when referring to the food: pickled beets (cf. pickled beetroot ).
Hyponyms
Derived terms
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: 甜菜 (zh) ( tiáncài )
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 ( 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) ( čoğondar )
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 ( Mexico ) , betarraga (es) f ( Chile, Peru ) , beterava f ( Western Argentina )
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 )
See also
References
Etymology 2
From Old English bētan .
Alternative forms
Verb
beet
( transitive , obsolete , dialect ) To improve ; to mend .
( transitive , obsolete , dialect ) To kindle a fire .
( transitive , obsolete , dialect ) To rouse .
Anagrams
Afrikaans
Etymology
From Dutch beet , variant of biet , from Middle Dutch bete , from Latin bēta .
Pronunciation
Noun
beet (plural bete )
beetroot
References
Dutch
Pronunciation
IPA (key ) : /beːt/
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 )
bite
Derived terms
Related terms
Descendants
Etymology 2
From Middle Dutch bete , from Latin bēta .
Noun
beet f (plural beten , diminutive beetje n )
Alternative form of biet .
Derived terms
Etymology 3
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
beet
singular past indicative of bijten
Anagrams
Finnish
Noun
beet
nominative plural of bee
Latin
Verb
beet
third-person singular present active subjunctive of beō
Middle English
Noun
beet
Alternative form of bete
Norman
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Old French beste , from Latin bēstia .
Noun
beet f (plural beets )
( Sark ) animal