rosbif

common noun

Syllable Decomposition

rosbif

From English roast beef, composed of roast ('roasted') and beef. According to Henriette Walter, the word rôt de biffe had previously crossed the Channel in the opposite direction, and her work Honni soit qui mal y pense - l'incroyable histoire d'amour entre le français et l'anglais shows many other examples of such linguistic round trips.

Definitions

Synonym

Angliche

Plural

rosbifs

Translations

  • germangerman:Roastbeef
  • englishenglish:roast beef
  • arabicarabic:روذبيف
  • danishdanish:oksesteg
  • spanishspanish:rosbif
  • finnishfinnish:paahtopaisti
  • italianitalian:rosbif
  • dutchdutch:rosbief
  • turkishturkish:rozbif

See also

roast-beef (cn.) rosbeef (cn.)