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

• IPA^(key): /stɛk/

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• Rhymes: -ɛk
• Syllabification: stek

Borrowed from English steak.

stek m animal or m inan (related adjective stekowy)

1. steak (relatively large, thick slice or slab cut from an animal)

Perhaps inherited from Proto-Slavic *sъtъkъ, *jьztъkъ. Sense 2 is a semantic loan from Latin cloāca.

stek m inan

1. (archaic) accumulation, mass

   Synonyms: nagromadzenie, zbiorowisko

2. cloaca (duct in reptiles, amphibians, and birds, as well as most fish and some mammals, which serves as the common outlet for urination, defecation, and reproduction)

   Synonym: kloaka

3. (obsolete) effluent, runoff, sewage

   Synonyms: spływ, ściek

4. (obsolete) crowd, concourse

   Synonym: zbiegowisko

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

From Old Norse steik.

stek c

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

• flintastek

stek n

1. a knot; a looping of strings
2. (colloquial) 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

1. imperative of steka

• stek in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• stek in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• stek in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

• sekt, sket