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beetroot

noun · verb · 5 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

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Pronunciation

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  • Multicultural-London-English: /ˈbi.t͡ʃɹyʔ/
  • UK: /ˈbiːt.ɹuːt/
  • US: /ˈbit.ɹut/
  • Australian: /ˈbiː.tɹʉːt/
  • Australian: [ˈbiː.t͡ʃɹʉːt]
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1

noun

Meaning 1

A normally deep-red-colored root vegetable usually cooked or pickled before eating.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: Australia, India, New-Zealand, UK, countable, uncountable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: beet, red beet, table beet

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

The edible part of the root of a beet plant, raw or prepared.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: uncountable, usually

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

3

verb

Meaning 3

To turn a bright red or purple color.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: informal, intransitive

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

4

noun

Meaning 4

round red root vegetable

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: beet

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: root vegetable

Narrower terms: sugar beet, mangel-wurzel

5

noun

Meaning 5

beet having a massively swollen red root; widely grown for human consumption

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: Beta vulgaris rubra

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: beet, common beet, Beta vulgaris

History

Etymology

From beet + root.

Across languages

Translations

134 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Afrikaans: beet — normally deep-red-coloured root vegetable
  • Albanian: panxhar — normally deep-red-coloured root vegetable
  • Amharic: ቀይስር (ḳäysər) — normally deep-red-coloured root vegetable
  • Arabic: شَمَنْدَر أَحْمَر (šamandar ʔaḥmar) — normally deep-red-coloured root vegetable
  • Arabic: بَنْجَر (banjar) — normally deep-red-coloured root vegetable
  • Arabic: باربة (bārba) — normally deep-red-coloured root vegetable
  • Arabic: بنجر (banjar) — normally deep-red-coloured root vegetable
  • Armenian: բազուկ (bazuk) — normally deep-red-coloured root vegetable
  • Armenian: ճակնդեղ (čakndeġ) — normally deep-red-coloured root vegetable
  • Azerbaijani: çuğundur — normally deep-red-coloured root vegetable
  • Bashkir: сөгөлдөр (sögöldör) — normally deep-red-coloured root vegetable
  • Belarusian: бура́к (burák) — normally deep-red-coloured root vegetable
  • Breton: beterabez — normally deep-red-coloured root vegetable
  • Bulgarian: чукунду́р (čukundúr) — normally deep-red-coloured root vegetable
  • Bulgarian: черве́но цвекло́ (červéno cvekló) — normally deep-red-coloured root vegetable
  • Catalan: remolatxa d'hort — normally deep-red-coloured root vegetable
  • Chinese Cantonese: 紅菜頭 /红菜头 (hung4 coi4 tau4) — normally deep-red-coloured root vegetable
  • Chinese Mandarin: 紅菜頭 /红菜头 (hóngcàitóu) — normally deep-red-coloured root vegetable
  • Chinese Mandarin: 甜菜根 (tiáncàigēn) — normally deep-red-coloured root vegetable
  • Chinese Mandarin: 甜菜 (tiáncài) — normally deep-red-coloured root vegetable
  • Chuvash: кӑшман (kăšman) — normally deep-red-coloured root vegetable
  • Czech: červená řepa — normally deep-red-coloured root vegetable
  • Danish: rødbede — normally deep-red-coloured root vegetable
  • Dutch: rode biet — normally deep-red-coloured root vegetable
  • Elfdalian: röðbiet — normally deep-red-coloured root vegetable
  • Erzya: якстерькай (jaksteŕkaj) — normally deep-red-coloured root vegetable
  • Esperanto: beto — normally deep-red-coloured root vegetable
  • Estonian: punapeet — normally deep-red-coloured root vegetable
  • Faroese: reyðrót — normally deep-red-coloured root vegetable
  • Finnish: punajuuri — normally deep-red-coloured root vegetable
  • Finnish: punajuurikas — normally deep-red-coloured root vegetable
  • French: betterave — normally deep-red-coloured root vegetable
  • Galician: remolacha — normally deep-red-coloured root vegetable
  • Georgian: ჭარხალი (č̣arxali) — normally deep-red-coloured root vegetable
  • German: Rote Bete — normally deep-red-coloured root vegetable
  • German: Rote Beete — normally deep-red-coloured root vegetable
  • German: Rote Rübe — normally deep-red-coloured root vegetable
  • German: Rotrübe — normally deep-red-coloured root vegetable
  • German: Rahne — normally deep-red-coloured root vegetable
  • German: Rande — normally deep-red-coloured root vegetable
  • Greek: παντζάρι (pantzári) — normally deep-red-coloured root vegetable
  • Greenlandic: rubiia — normally deep-red-coloured root vegetable
  • Hebrew: סלק (sélek) — normally deep-red-coloured root vegetable
  • Hindi: चुकंदर (cukandar) — normally deep-red-coloured root vegetable
  • Hungarian: cékla — normally deep-red-coloured root vegetable
  • Icelandic: rauðrófa — normally deep-red-coloured root vegetable
  • Icelandic: rauðbeða — normally deep-red-coloured root vegetable
  • Ido: betravo — normally deep-red-coloured root vegetable
  • Ingrian: vöglä — normally deep-red-coloured root vegetable
  • Irish: biatas — normally deep-red-coloured root vegetable
  • Irish: meacan biatais — normally deep-red-coloured root vegetable
  • Italian: barbabietola — normally deep-red-coloured root vegetable
  • Japanese: ビートの根 (bīto no ne) — normally deep-red-coloured root vegetable
  • Japanese: 甜菜 (tensai) — normally deep-red-coloured root vegetable
  • Japanese: テーブルビート (tēburu bīto) — normally deep-red-coloured root vegetable
  • Japanese: カエンサイ (kaensai) — normally deep-red-coloured root vegetable
  • Japanese: ビーツ (bītsu) — normally deep-red-coloured root vegetable
  • Kashubian: czwikła — normally deep-red-coloured root vegetable
  • Kazakh: қызылша (qyzylşa) — normally deep-red-coloured root vegetable
  • Korean: 비트 (biteu) — normally deep-red-coloured root vegetable
  • Korean: 비트 뿌리 (biteu ppuri) — normally deep-red-coloured root vegetable
  • Kyrgyz: кызылча (kızılca) — normally deep-red-coloured root vegetable
  • Latvian: biete — normally deep-red-coloured root vegetable
  • Lithuanian: burokėlis — normally deep-red-coloured root vegetable
  • Luxembourgish: rout Rommel — normally deep-red-coloured root vegetable
  • Macedonian: цве́кло (cvéklo) — normally deep-red-coloured root vegetable
  • Maltese: pitrava — normally deep-red-coloured root vegetable
  • Māori: pīti whero — normally deep-red-coloured root vegetable
  • Māori: rengakura — normally deep-red-coloured root vegetable
  • Eastern Mari: ушмен (ušmen) — normally deep-red-coloured root vegetable
  • Eastern Mari: йошкарушмен (joškarušmen) — normally deep-red-coloured root vegetable
  • Mongolian: хүрэн манжин (xüren manžin) — normally deep-red-coloured root vegetable
  • Mongolian: ᠬᠦᠷᠡᠩ ᠮᠠᠨᠵᠢᠨ (küreng manǰin) — normally deep-red-coloured root vegetable
  • Navajo: łeehdoolʼeez łichííʼí — normally deep-red-coloured root vegetable
  • Norman: betterave — normally deep-red-coloured root vegetable
  • Norwegian: rødbete — normally deep-red-coloured root vegetable
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: raudbete — normally deep-red-coloured root vegetable
  • Persian: چغندر (čoġondar) — normally deep-red-coloured root vegetable
  • Polish: burak — normally deep-red-coloured root vegetable
  • Polish: burak ćwikłowy — normally deep-red-coloured root vegetable
  • Portuguese: beterraba — normally deep-red-coloured root vegetable
  • Romanian: sfeclă roșie — normally deep-red-coloured root vegetable
  • Romansh: rischcotschna — normally deep-red-coloured root vegetable
  • Russian: свёкла (svjókla) — normally deep-red-coloured root vegetable
  • Russian: свекла́ (sveklá) — normally deep-red-coloured root vegetable
  • Russian: бура́к (burák) — normally deep-red-coloured root vegetable
  • Russian: буря́к (burják) — normally deep-red-coloured root vegetable
  • Northern Sami: ruksesruohtas — normally deep-red-coloured root vegetable
  • Serbo-Croatian: rona — normally deep-red-coloured root vegetable
  • Serbo-Croatian: цвекла — normally deep-red-coloured root vegetable
  • Serbo-Croatian: цикла — normally deep-red-coloured root vegetable
  • Serbo-Croatian: cvekla — normally deep-red-coloured root vegetable
  • Serbo-Croatian: cikla — normally deep-red-coloured root vegetable
  • Sinhalese: බීට් (bīṭ) — normally deep-red-coloured root vegetable
  • Slovak: cvikla — normally deep-red-coloured root vegetable
  • Slovak: červená repa — normally deep-red-coloured root vegetable
  • Slovene: rdeča pesa — normally deep-red-coloured root vegetable
  • Spanish: remolacha — normally deep-red-coloured root vegetable
  • Spanish: beterraga — normally deep-red-coloured root vegetable
  • Spanish: betabel — normally deep-red-coloured root vegetable
  • Spanish: betarraga — normally deep-red-coloured root vegetable
  • Spanish: betarrata — normally deep-red-coloured root vegetable
  • Spanish: beterava — normally deep-red-coloured root vegetable
  • Swahili: tini — normally deep-red-coloured root vegetable
  • Swedish: beta — normally deep-red-coloured root vegetable
  • Swedish: rödbeta — normally deep-red-coloured root vegetable
  • Tajik: лаблабу (lablabu) — normally deep-red-coloured root vegetable
  • Tamil: பீட்ரூட் (pīṭrūṭ) — normally deep-red-coloured root vegetable
  • Tamil: செங்கிழங்கு (ceṅkiḻaṅku) — normally deep-red-coloured root vegetable
  • Tatar: чөгендер (çögender) — normally deep-red-coloured root vegetable
  • Telugu: బీట్రూట్ (bīṭrūṭ) — normally deep-red-coloured root vegetable
  • Telugu: బీటుదుంప (bīṭudumpa) — normally deep-red-coloured root vegetable
  • Thai: บีตรูต (bìit-rúut) — normally deep-red-coloured root vegetable
  • Turkish: pancar — normally deep-red-coloured root vegetable
  • Turkmen: şugundyr — normally deep-red-coloured root vegetable
  • Ukrainian: буря́к (burják) — normally deep-red-coloured root vegetable
  • Unami: màxkchëphìk — normally deep-red-coloured root vegetable
  • Urdu: چکبصور (cukundur) — normally deep-red-coloured root vegetable
  • Uyghur: قىزىلچا (qizilcha) — normally deep-red-coloured root vegetable
  • Uzbek: lavlagi — normally deep-red-coloured root vegetable
  • Uzbek: qizilcha — normally deep-red-coloured root vegetable
  • Vietnamese: củ cải đường — normally deep-red-coloured root vegetable
  • Vietnamese: củ dền — normally deep-red-coloured root vegetable
  • Volapük: redabetad — normally deep-red-coloured root vegetable
  • Welsh: betysen — normally deep-red-coloured root vegetable
  • Wolof: beteraaw — normally deep-red-coloured root vegetable
  • Esperanto: beto — edible part of beet plant
  • Esperanto: ruĝa beto — edible part of beet plant
  • Finnish: juurikas — edible part of beet plant
  • Turkish: pancar — edible part of beet plant
  • Turkish: çükündür — edible part of beet plant
  • Esperanto: purpuriĝi — to turn red
  • Esperanto: ruĝiĝi — to turn red
  • Finnish: punastua — to turn red