bifteck

== French == === Alternative forms === biftèque (post-1990 spelling) beefsteak beefsteck, beefteak, beefteck, biffteck, biftec, bistec, bisteck (all obsolete) === Etymology === 18th century, from English beefsteak with the cluster /fst/ reduced to /ft/ (or less often to /st/). The spelling was highly variable up into the 20th century until bifteck established itself, which is phonetic but adds the “un-French” -k, be it as a pseudo-English form or after the related steak (whose spelling remained unaltered). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /bif.tɛk/ === Noun === bifteck m (plural biftecks) beefsteak (a steak of beef) ==== Hypernyms ==== steak ==== Derived terms ==== défendre son bifteck gagner son bifteck ==== Descendants ==== → Albanian: biftek → Armenian: պիֆթէք (piftʻēkʻ) (Western Armenian) → Bulgarian: бифте́к (bifték) → Czech: biftek → Greek: μπιφτέκι (biftéki) → Ladino: biftek → Macedonian: бифтек (biftek) → Japanese: ビフテキ (bifuteki) → Ottoman Turkish: بیفتك (biftek) Turkish: biftek → Romanian: biftec → Vietnamese: bít tết === Further reading === “bifteck”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012