steak

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• /steɪk/
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• Early, Modern: /stɛːk/
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• homophone: stake
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• rhymes with -eɪk
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• CMU ARPABET: S T EY1 K Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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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”). The modern pronunciation shows an irregular change of Early Modern English /ɛː/ to /eɪ/ in the standard language; contrast this with the development of other words such as speak and wreak.

136 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: biefstuk — slice of beef
• Albanian: biftek — slice of beef
• Arabic: سْتَيْك (stayk) — slice of beef
• Arabic: سْتِيك (steyk) — slice of beef
• Arabic: سْتِيك (stīk) — slice of beef
• Arabic: ستيك (stēk) — slice of beef
• Arabic: ستيك (stēk) — slice of beef
• Armenian: բիֆշտեքս (bifštekʻs) — slice of beef
• Armenian: սթեյք (stʻeykʻ) — slice of beef
• Aymara: aycha canca — slice of beef
• Azerbaijani: bifşteks — slice of beef
• Azerbaijani: steyk — slice of beef
• Azerbaijani: külbasdı — slice of beef
• Belarusian: біфштэ́кс (bifštéks) — slice of beef
• Belarusian: стэйк (stejk) — slice of beef
• Bengali: স্টেক (sṭek) — slice of beef
• Bulgarian: бифте́к (bifték) — slice of beef
• Catalan: bistec — slice of beef
• Cherokee: ᏩᎦ ᎭᏫᏯ (waga hawiya) — slice of beef
• Chinese Cantonese: 牛扒 (ngau4 paa2) — slice of beef
• Chinese Mandarin: 牛排 (niúpái) — slice of beef
• Czech: biftek — slice of beef
• Czech: steak — slice of beef
• Danish: bøf — slice of beef
• Danish: steg — slice of beef
• Dutch: biefstuk — slice of beef
• Dutch: steak — slice of beef
• Esperanto: steko — slice of beef
• Esperanto: bifsteko — slice of beef
• Estonian: steik — slice of beef
• Estonian: biifsteek — slice of beef
• Estonian: pihv — slice of beef
• Faroese: steik — slice of beef
• Finnish: pihvi — slice of beef
• Finnish: naudanlihapihvi — slice of beef
• Franco-Provençal: bistèca — slice of beef
• French: bifteck — slice of beef
• French: steak — slice of beef
• Galician: estique — slice of beef
• Georgian: ბიფშტექსი (bipšṭeksi) — slice of beef
• Georgian: სტეიკი (sṭeiḳi) — slice of beef
• German: Steak — slice of beef
• German: Beefsteak — slice of beef
• German: Lendenschnitte — slice of beef
• German: Schnitte — slice of beef
• Greek: μπριζόλα (brizóla) — slice of beef
• Greek: μπιφτέκι (biftéki) — slice of beef
• Ancient Greek: φλογίς (phlogís) — slice of beef
• Hebrew: אֻמְצָה \ אומצה (umtsá) — slice of beef
• Hebrew: סטייק — slice of beef
• Hebrew: סְטֵיְק (steyk) — slice of beef
• Hindi: स्टेक (sṭek) — slice of beef
• Hungarian: hússzelet — slice of beef
• Icelandic: steik — slice of beef
• Ido: bifsteko — slice of beef
• Indonesian: bistik — slice of beef
• Indonesian: steik — slice of beef
• Irish: stéig — slice of beef
• Italian: bistecca — slice of beef
• Japanese: ステーキ (sutēki) — slice of beef
• Kannada: ಹಸಿಬಾಡು (hasibāḍu) — slice of beef
• Kazakh: бифштекс (bifşteks) — slice of beef
• Korean: 스테이크 (seuteikeu) — slice of beef
• Kyrgyz: бифштекс (bifşteks) — slice of beef
• Lao: ສະເຕັກ (sa tek) — slice of beef
• Latin: praecīsum — slice of beef
• Latvian: bifšteks — slice of beef
• Latvian: steiks — slice of beef
• Lithuanian: bifštekas — slice of beef
• Lithuanian: žlėgtainis — slice of beef
• Luxembourgish: Bifdeck — slice of beef
• Macedonian: бифтек (biftek) — slice of beef
• Malay: stik — slice of beef
• Maltese: stejk — slice of beef
• Māori: motū (pīwhī) — slice of beef
• Marathi: स्टेक (sṭek) — slice of beef
• Mongolian: бифштекс (bifšteks) — slice of beef
• Norwegian Bokmål: biff — slice of beef
• Norwegian Bokmål: steik — slice of beef
• Norwegian Bokmål: stek — slice of beef
• Norwegian Nynorsk: biff — slice of beef
• Pannonian Rusyn: бифтек (biftek) — slice of beef
• Iranian Persian: بیفْتِک (biftek) — slice of beef
• Iranian Persian: اِسْتِیْک (esteyk) — slice of beef
• Pohnpeian: sdeik — slice of beef
• Polish: stek — slice of beef
• Polish: befsztyk — slice of beef
• Portuguese: bife — slice of beef
• Quechua: aycha kanka — slice of beef
• Romanian: friptură — slice of beef
• Russian: бифште́кс (bifštɛ́ks) — slice of beef
• Russian: стейк (stɛjk) — slice of beef
• Scottish Gaelic: staoig — slice of beef
• Serbo-Croatian: бѝфтек — slice of beef
• Serbo-Croatian: bìftek — slice of beef
• Slovak: biftek — slice of beef
• Slovene: biftek — slice of beef
• Somali: waslad — slice of beef
• Spanish: bistec — slice of beef
• Spanish: bisté — slice of beef
• Spanish: filete — slice of beef
• Swahili: steki — slice of beef
• Swedish: stek — slice of beef
• Swedish: biff — slice of beef
• Tajik: бифштекс (bifšteks) — slice of beef
• Tamil: மாட்டிறைச்சித் துண்டம் (māṭṭiṟaiccit tuṇṭam) — slice of beef
• Thai: สเต็ก (sà-dték) — slice of beef
• Thai: สเต๊ก (sà-dték) — slice of beef
• Tonga (Zambia): cituli — slice of beef
• Turkish: biftek — slice of beef
• Ukrainian: біфште́кс (bifštéks) — slice of beef
• Ukrainian: стейк (stejk) — slice of beef
• Urdu: سْٹیک (sṭek) — slice of beef
• Uzbek: bifshteks — slice of beef
• Uzbek: biftek — slice of beef
• Vietnamese: bít tết — slice of beef
• Vietnamese: miếng thịt — slice of beef
• Arabic: ستيك (stēk) — slice of meat of other animals
• Arabic: ستيك (stēk) — slice of meat of other animals
• Bulgarian: стек (stek) — slice of meat of other animals
• Chinese Cantonese: 肉扒 (juk6 paa2) — slice of meat of other animals
• Chinese Mandarin: 肉排 (ròupái) — slice of meat of other animals
• Dutch: steak — slice of meat of other animals
• Finnish: pihvi — slice of meat of other animals
• German: Steak — slice of meat of other animals
• Ancient Greek: φλογίς (phlogís) — slice of meat of other animals
• Latin: praecīsum — slice of meat of other animals
• Macedonian: стек (stek) — slice of meat of other animals
• Māori: motū — slice of meat of other animals
• Norwegian: steik — slice of meat of other animals
• Norwegian: stek — slice of meat of other animals
• Polish: stek — slice of meat of other animals
• Portuguese: filé — slice of meat of other animals
• Russian: стейк (stɛjk) — slice of meat of other animals
• Spanish: filete — slice of meat of other animals
• Ukrainian: стейк (stejk) — slice of meat of other animals