Noun: bistek
Sample Sentences
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Recently, I started making bistek in a pan, using New York strip or skirt steak. [2020, Alvin Cailan with Alexandra Cuerdo, “The Evolution of Bistek”, in Amboy: Recipes from the Filipino-American Dream, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, →ISBN, “Portland Runaway” section, page 246:]
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Bestsellers on the menu include chicken inasal ($16) — Filipino-style char-grilled lemongrass chicken with calamansi ponzu — and bistek and egg ($18). The latter features citrus-soy beef, Maui onion sauce and ginger scallion sauce. [2024 August 21, Kelli Shiroma Braiotta, “Filipino food with a twist”, in Crave (Honolulu Star-Advertiser), Honolulu, Haw., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 4, columns 1–2:]
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The menu includes rice and noodle bowls topped with Filipino specialties such as chicken adobo, sisig (minced pork) and bistek (thinly sliced beef braised in soy sauce). [2025 February 7, Keith Pandolfi, “Restaurants”, in The Cincinnati Enquirer, volume 184th, number 255, Cincinnati, Oh., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 5D, column 1:]
Nouns inflected like bistek
greyware,
chronotropy,
urgrund,
cytosorting,
homekeeping,
pedobaiting,
winterdress,
JLNS,
rumpology,
hopkinsiaxanthin,
enchylemma,
further education,
hexobendine,
humdrumminess,
unobligingness,
backscroll,
telocinobufagin,
dosulepin,
mensuralism,
crème de framboise, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Tagalog bistek, from Spanish bistec, from English beefsteak. Doublet of beefsteak and bifshtek. See: Spanish Nouns '
bistec', English Nouns '
beefsteak'.