different between steak vs bavette

English

Etymology

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”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ste?k/
• Homophone: stake
• Rhymes: -e?k

Noun

steak (countable and uncountable, plural steaks)

1. beefsteak, a slice of beef, broiled or cut for broiling.
   • 2017, Letterkenny (TV series):

     "Don't fuck up my steak dinner, Darry."

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
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: ????? (sà-dték)

Translations

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, Skate, Stake, kates, ketas, skate, stake, takes, teaks

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?st?jk]

Noun

steak m

1. steak

Declension

See also

• biftek

Further reading

• steak in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• steak in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Dutch

Etymology

From English steak.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ste?k/

Noun

steak m (plural steaks, diminutive steakje n)

1. steak

Synonyms

• biefstuk

French

Alternative forms

• steack (less current)

Etymology

Borrowed from English steak.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /st?k/

Noun

steak m (plural steaks)

1. steak (of meat or fish)

Derived terms

• envoyer du steak
• s'en battre les steaks

See also

• bifteck

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /bæ?v?t/

Etymology 1

Borrowed from French bavette (“slobber-inducing”).

Noun

bavette (plural bavettes)

1. (meat) A beef flank steak.

Translations

Etymology 2

From Italian bavette (“bavetta”) (dribble-inducing).

Noun

bavette (uncountable)

1. (pasta) A type of thick spaghetti.

Translations

French

Etymology

baver +? -ette.

Pronunciation

• (FR) IPA^(key): /ba.v?t/

Noun

bavette f (plural bavettes)

1. bib
2. bavette (beef flank steak)

Synonyms

• (bib): bavoir

Derived terms

• tailler une bavette

Further reading

• “bavette” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Italian

Noun

bavette f

1. plural of bavetta

West Flemish

Etymology

Borrowed from French bavette.

Noun

bavette f (plural bavettn, diminutive bavetje)

1. bib