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 (plural beets)

Beta vulgaris, a plant with a swollen root which is eaten or used to make sugar.
The beet is a hardy species.
There are beets growing over these.
A beetroot, 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

Translations

Beta vulgaris

Albanian: panxhar (sq) m, rrepë (sq) f
Arabic: شَمَنْدَر‎ m (šamandar)
Egyptian Arabic: بنجر‎ m pl (bangar)
Armenian: ճակնդեղ (hy) (čakndeł), 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 (mishkoskatask)
Czech: řepa (cs) f
Danish: bede (da) c
Dutch: biet (nl) f, kroot (nl) (archaic)
Esperanto: beto
Estonian: peet (et)
Faroese: rót f
Finnish: juurikas (fi)
French: betterave (fr) f, bette (fr) f
Galician: remolacha (gl) f
Georgian: ჭარხლის (č̣arxlis), ჭარხალი (č̣arxali)
German: Bete f, Rübe (de) f
Greek: κοκκινογούλι (el) n (kokkinogoúli), ζαχαρότευτλο (el) n (zacharóteftlo)
Ancient: τεῦτλον n (teûtlon), σεῦτλον n (seûtlon)
Hebrew: סלק‎ (he) m (selek)
Hindi: चुकंदर (hi) (cukandar)
Hungarian: cékla (hu), cukorrépa (hu)
Ido: beto (io)
Ingrian: vööglä
Irish: biatas f
Italian: bietola (it) f, bieta f

Khmer: មើមស្ពៃ (məəmspɨy)
Korean: 근대 (ko) (geundae)
Latin: bēta (la) f
Latvian: biete
Lezgi: чугъундур (čuġundur)
Low German: Beet (nds) f
Macedonian: репка f (repka)
Maltese: pitravi f
Maori: pīti
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 (sh) f
Slovak: repa (sk) f
Slovene: pesa (sl) f
Spanish: remolacha (es) f, betabel m (Mexico), betarraga f (Chile), beterava f (Western Argentina)
Tagalog: remolatsa
Tajik: лаблабу (tg) (lablabu)
Talysh: чәғынде
Turkish: pancar (tr)
Ukrainian: буря́к (uk) m (burják)
Urdu: چوقبدر‎ (cuqandar)
Vietnamese: cù cai
Volapük: betad (vo)
Yiddish: בוריק‎ (burik)

a root

Finnish: punajuuri (fi)
Greek: κοκκινογούλι (el) n (kokkinogoúli)

Hungarian: cékla (hu)
Italian: barbabietola (it) f

References

beet on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
beets on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
Beta vulgaris on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Beta on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
beet at University of Melbourne "Sorting plant names"

Anagrams

bete

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch beet, variant of biet, from Middle Dutch bete, from Latin bēta.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /biə̯t/, [biət]

Noun

beet (plural bete)

beetroot

References

2007. The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Department of Linguistics.

Dutch

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /beːt/
audio (Belgium) (file)
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

beetgaar

Related terms

bijten

Etymology 2

From Middle Dutch bete, from Latin bēta.

Noun

beet f (plural beten, diminutive beetje n)

Alternative form of biet.

Derived terms

beetwortel

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

beet

singular past indicative of bijten

Anagrams

bete

Finnish

Noun

beet

Nominative plural form of bee.

Latin

Verb

beet

third-person singular present active subjunctive of beō

Norman

Alternative forms

baête (continental Normandy)
bête (Jersey, Guernsey)

Etymology

From Old French beste, from Latin bēstia.

Noun

beet f (plural beets)

(Sark) animal