# steak
## 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: /steɪk/
* (Early Modern) IPA: /stɛːk/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Homophone: stake
* Rhymes: -eɪk

### Noun

steak (countable and uncountable, plural steaks)
* beefsteak, a slice of beef, broiled or cut for broiling.
* (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
** 2013 July 26, Nick Miroff, “Mexico gets a taste for eating insects […] ”, in The Guardian Weekly‎, volume 189, number 7, page 32:The San Juan market is Mexico City's most famous deli of exotic meats, where an adventurous shopper can hunt down hard-to-find critters […] But the priciest items in the market aren't the armadillo steaks or even the bluefin tuna.
* 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

* all sizzle and no steak
* book steak
* bucket steak
* burger steak
* butcher's steak
* butler steak
* carpetbag steak
* chicken-fried steak
* chip steak
* chuck steak
* club steak
* country-fried steak
* cowboy steak
* cube steak
* Delmonico steak
* finger steak
* flank steak
* flap steak
* flat-iron steak
* flat iron steak
* flatiron steak
* Florentine steak
* frying steak
* Gaelic steak
* Hamburger steak
* hamburger steak
* Hamburg steak
* hamburg steak
* ham steak
* hanger steak
* Hawaiian steak
* liberty steak
* minute steak
* Montreal steak seasoning
* Montreal steak spice
* oyster blade steak
* pepper steak
* pimp steak
* point steak
* poor man's steak
* pork steak
* porterhouse steak
* ribeye steak
* rib-eye steak
* rib eye steak
* rib steak
* robber steak
* rump steak
* Salisbury steak
* shell steak
* sizzle steak
* skirt steak
* Spencer steak
* Steak and Blowjob Day
* steak and kidney pie
* steak au poivre
* steak bake
* steak bomb
* steak chips
* steak commando
* steak-cut
* steak Diane
* steak fork
* steak fries
* steak hammer
* steak house
* steak knife
* steak on the hoof
* steak sauce
* steak set
* steak tartare
* strip steak
* Swiss steak
* T-bone steak
* tenderloin steak
* tomahawk steak
* tube steak
* tube-steak
* two-eyed steak

#### Descendants

* French: steack
* Thai: สเต็ก (sà-dték)
* Hebrew: סטייק

#### Translations
### Verb

steak (third-person singular simple present steaks, present participle steaking, simple past and past participle steaked)
* 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.

### References

* ↑ Dobson, E. J. (1957) English pronunciation 1500-1700‎, second edition, volume II: Phonology, Oxford: Clarendon Press, published 1968, →OCLC, § 115, page 625: “The sixteenth and seventeenth-century orthoepists do not distinguish great, break, steak, and yea from other ME ę̄ words.”.

### Anagrams

* Keast, Keats, Skate, Skeat, Stake, kates, ketas, skate, stake, takes, teaks

## Czech
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈstɛjk]

### Noun

steak m inan
* steak

#### See also

* biftek

### Further reading

* “steak”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
* “steak”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989

## Dutch
### Etymology

From English steak.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /steːk/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

steak m (plural steaks, diminutive steakje n)
* steak

#### Synonyms

* biefstuk

## French
### Alternative forms

* steack (less current)

### Etymology

Borrowed from English steak.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /stɛk/, (Quebec) /stejk/
* Audio (France, Avignon):(file)

### Noun

steak m (plural steaks)
* steak (of meat or fish)

#### Derived terms

* envoyer du steak
* s’en battre les steaks
* steak haché

### See also

* bifteck

### Further reading

* “steak”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.