stek

From Middle Dutch stec. Cognate with English stick.
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• IPA^(key): /stɛk/

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• Rhymes: -ɛk

stek m (plural stekken, diminutive stekje n)

1. spot, place, home
2. cutting, a leaf, stem, branch, or root removed from a plant and cultivated to grow a new plant
3. (Southern) Alternative form of stok.

• webstek

• → Caribbean Javanese: setèg
• → Indonesian: setek
• → Papiamentu: stèk, stèki

stek

1. imperative of steke

Borrowed from English steak, from Middle English steike, from Old Norse steik.

• IPA^(key): /stɛk/

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• Rhymes: -ɛk
• Syllabification: stek

stek m inan

1. steak

• stek in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• stek in Polish dictionaries at PWN

From Old Norse steik.

stek c

1. a steak, a roast, a joint (meat)

stek n

1. a knot; a looping of strings
2. strong sunshine (when sunbathing is similar to frying a steak)

A common error is to treat the knot sense as a common gender noun.

• pålstek
• skotstek
• söndagsstek
• steka

From stekare (“member of the upper class with flashy lifestyle”).

• schtek

stek n

1. (slang) (expensive) hedonistic pleasures, especially those associated with the upper class

   De sitter i yachten och äter hummer och dricker dompa. Fan vad stek.

   They're in the yacht eating lobster and drinking Dom Pérignon. Damn that's "stek".

• stekig
• stekare

• stek in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)

• sekt, sket