English Explanatory Dictionary

kebab

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A dish of pieces of meat, fish, or vegetables roasted on a skewer or spit, especially a doner kebab.
  2. A hand-held dish consisting of pieces of meat roasted on an upright skewer mixed with fresh vegetables and sauces and rolled up in a round piece of unleavened bread.
  3. A shish kebab or any other food on a skewer.
  4. A restaurant that sells kebabs
  5. The outward growing portions of a shish kebab structure.
  6. A Muslim, usually of southern European, Middle Eastern, or North African descent.
  7. The vulva.
  8. A menu icon of three vertical dots.
verb
  1. To roast in the style of a kebab.
  2. To stab or skewer.

Pronunciation

/kəˈbæb/ /kɪˈbæb/ /kɪˈbɑːb/ /kɪˈbɑb/ En-au-kebab.ogg LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-kebab.wav

Word forms

kebab kebabs kabaab kabob kebap kabab kebob kebabbing kebabbed

Etymology

From Arabic كَبَاب (kabāb), partly through Urdu, Persian and Turkish kebap. Doublet of cevapi. See the Arabic entry for more.

Synonyms

run through spear chef chib ching chive enthrill foin gore gride jab job juke kebab knifecrime lancinate pigstick pink poach shank shiv speet splash stab stick stob stog thrust yerk empierce fix impale pierce prick puncture stake transfix transpierce

Related words

gyros shashlik shawarma souvlaki suya

Derived words

badly packed kebab chapli kebab doner kebab kafta kebab kebab case kebablike remove kebab seekh kebab shami kebab shish kebab Wigan kebab

Translations

Albanian: qebab Arabic: كَبَاب Armenian: քյաբաբ Azerbaijani: kabab Belarusian: кеба́б Belarusian: шашлы́к Bengali: কাবাব Bulgarian: кеба́пче Bulgarian: кеба́п Burmese: ကဘတ် Chinese Mandarin: 烤肉串 Chinese Mandarin: 串燒 /串烧 Chinese Mandarin: 卡巴 Czech: kebab Danish: kebab Dutch: kebab Esperanto: kebabo Estonian: kebab Finnish: kebab French: kebab French: kebap French: kébab Galician: kebab Georgian: ქაბაბი Georgian: მწვადი German: Kebab German: Kebap German: Fleischspieß German: Döner (doner kebab) Greek: κεμπάπ Gujarati: કબાબ Hebrew: כַּבָּבּ Hebrew: קַבָּבּ Hindi: कबाब Hungarian: gírosz Hungarian: kebab Indonesian: kebab Italian: kebab Japanese: ケバブ Japanese: 串焼き Kazakh: кәуап Korean: 케밥 Kumyk: кабап Central Kurdish: تکە Northern Kurdish: kebab Kyrgyz: кебеп Latin: alchiebābat Latvian: kebabs Lezgi: кабаб Lithuanian: kebabas Macedonian: ќебап Macedonian: ражнич Malay: kebab Māori: ōpūrau
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