Etymology

bifteki

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Today it means: A kind of Greek beef patty or rissole. Full definition →

Greek μπιφτέκι ← French bifteck ← English beefsteak
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The story

  1. English · derived frombeefsteak
  2. French · derived frombifteck
  3. Greek · borrowed fromμπιφτέκι
  4. English todaybifteki

Borrowed from Greek μπιφτέκι (biftéki), from French bifteck, from English beefsteak.

Words from the same roots

Englishbeefsteak all →

bistek

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.