n.

The hard fatty tissues around the kidneys of cattle and sheep, used in cooking and for making tallow.

[Middle English, from Anglo-Norman *suet, accusative of sue, tallow, variant of Old French sieu, from Latin sēbum.]

Solid white fat around the kidneys of oxen and sheep, used in baking and frying.

[SOO-iht] Found in beef, sheep and other animals, suet is the solid white fat found around the kidneys and loins. Many British recipes call for it to lend richness to pastries, puddings, stuffings and mincemeats. Suet was once widely used to make tallow candles.

noun

Adipose tissue: fat. See fat/thin.

Hard, raw fat from a beef carcass sold for cooking.

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Dansk (Danish)
n. - tælle, nyrefedt

Nederlands (Dutch)
schaaps-/rundervet

Français (French)
n. - graisse de rognon de b¯uf

Deutsch (German)
n. - Talg

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - (περινεφρικό) λίπος, ξίγκι

Italiano (Italian)
sugna, strutto, lardo

Português (Portuguese)
n. - sebo (m)

Русский (Russian)
околопочечный жир

Español (Spanish)
n. - sebo

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - talg

中文（简体） (Chinese (Simplified))
牛脂, 板油, 羊脂

中文（繁體） (Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 牛脂, 板油, 羊脂

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 소 기름

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - スエット

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) شحم الماشيه‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮חלב (ח צרויה, ל סגולה) כליות (של שוורים וכבשים המשמש להכנת בצק ועוד)‬

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