English Explanatory Dictionary

barbecue

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A fireplace or pit for grilling food, typically used outdoors and traditionally employing hot charcoal as the heating medium.
  2. A meal or event highlighted by food cooked in such an apparatus.
  3. Meat, especially pork or beef, which has been cooked in such an apparatus (i.e. smoked over indirect heat from high-smoke fuels) and then chopped up or shredded.
  4. A hog, ox, or other large animal roasted or broiled whole for a feast.
  5. A floor on which coffee beans are sun-dried.
  6. A framework of sticks.
verb
  1. To cook food on a barbecue; to smoke food over indirect heat from high-smoke fuels.
  2. To grill.
  3. To kill or destroy using high heat or fire; to cook; to burn.

Pronunciation

/ˈbɑːbɪˌkjuː/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-barbecue.wav /ˈbɑɹbɪˌkju/ /ˈbɑɹbə-/ en-us-barbecue.ogg

Word forms

barbecue barbecues barbeque bar-be-que bar-b-que bar-B-Q barbie BBQ 'cue 'que que barbecuing barbecueing barbecued

Etymology

From mid-17th century. Borrowed from Spanish barbacoa, from Taíno barbakoa (“framework of sticks”), the raised wooden structure the natives used to either sleep on or cure meat. Originally “meal of roasted meat or fish”. Doublet of balbacua and barbacoa.

Synonyms

braai buccan compare grill cookout

Related words

balbacua barbacoa

Derived words

banana cue barbecue pork barbecuer barbecue sauce barbecue slaw barbecue stopper barbecuey barbie BBQ camote cue ham barbecue Korean barbecue Lexington-style barbecue Mongolian barbecue nonbarbecue barbecue up

Translations

Afrikaans: braai Amharic: ጥብስ Arabic: شِوَاء Arabic: بَارْبِيكْيُو Armenian: խորոված Azerbaijani: barbekü Belarusian: барбекю́ Belarusian: грыль Bulgarian: барбекю́ Bulgarian: скара Chamicuro: tsepe'ta Chinese Mandarin: 燒烤 /烧烤 Cornish: barbakoa Czech: gril Danish: barbecue Dutch: barbecue Dutch: grill Finnish: grilli French: barbecue Galician: asadeiro Georgian: მწვადი German: Grill German: Barbecue German: Grillen German: Grillplatte German: Grillteller Greek: ψησταριά Greek: σχάρα Haitian Creole: griyad Hebrew: מנגל Hungarian: grillsütő Ido: grililo Italian: fornacella Japanese: バーベキュー Japanese: グリル Kazakh: кәуап Korean: 바비큐 Korean: 그릴 Maltese: barbikju Māori: ahi mātiti Māori: rorerore Navajo: bikááʼatʼeesí Norwegian Bokmål: grill Norwegian Nynorsk: grill Persian: باربیکیو Polish: grill Polish: ruszt Polish: barbecue Portuguese: churrasqueira Romanian: grătar Russian: барбекю́ Russian: гриль Russian: шашлы́чница Sicilian: gradigghia Sicilian: tannura Spanish: barbacoa Spanish: parrilla Spanish: asador Swedish: grill
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