kebab
English
[edit]![](http://178.128.105.246/content-http-upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2c/Kebab.jpg/220px-Kebab.jpg)
Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Arabic كَبَاب (kabāb), partly through Urdu, Persian and Turkish kebap.[1] Doublet of cevapi. See the Arabic entry for more.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (General Australian) IPA(key): /kəˈbæb/
- Rhymes: -æb
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /kɪˈbæb/ (usual), IPA(key): /kɪˈbɑːb/ (less common)
- Rhymes: -æb
- (General American) IPA(key): /kɪˈbɑb/
Audio (General Australian): (file) Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -ɑːb
Noun
[edit]kebab (plural kebabs)
- (British) A dish of pieces of meat, fish, or vegetables roasted on a skewer or spit, especially a doner kebab.
- (Australia) 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.
- (US) A shish kebab or any other food on a skewer.
- A restaurant that sells kebabs
- Let's go to the kebab after the club.
- (chemistry) The outward growing portions of a shish kebab structure.
- (slang, offensive, ethnic slur) A Muslim, usually of southern European, Middle Eastern, or North African descent.
- (slang, vulgar, UK) The vulva.
- (graphical user interface) A menu icon of three vertical dots.
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
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Verb
[edit]kebab (third-person singular simple present kebabs, present participle kebabbing, simple past and past participle kebabbed)
- (transitive) To roast in the style of a kebab.
- (transitive, slang) To stab or skewer.
- 2003, Julian Roup, A Fisherman in the Saddle, page 32:
- I see myself and Quest falling over backwards and his body rolling off my legs, and that wicked metal pommel winking in the sun, having almost kebabbed me.
- 2011, Simon Sebag Montefiore, Jerusalem: The Biography – A History of the Middle East, page 343:
- A bonfire was built in the courtyard of the Church where, 'almost drunk with rage', the mob hacked them into pieces 'so that not even a human shape remained', and then kebabbed them.
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief, Angus Stevenson and Georgia Hole, editors (2007), “kebab”, in The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 6th edition, Oxford, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN.
Further reading
[edit]Czech
[edit]Noun
[edit]kebab m inan
- kebab (dish, whether shish kebab or donner kebab)
Declension
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- kebab in Akademický slovník cizích slov, 1995, at prirucka.ujc.cas.cz
Dutch
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Turkish kebap, from Arabic كَبَاب (kabāb).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]kebab m (uncountable)
- kebab (seasoned meat grilled on a spit), esp. doner kebab
Derived terms
[edit]Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Turkish kebap, from Arabic كَبَاب (kabāb).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]kebab
Declension
[edit]Inflection of kebab (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | kebab | kebabit | |
genitive | kebabin | kebabien | |
partitive | kebabia | kebabeja | |
illative | kebabiin | kebabeihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | kebab | kebabit | |
accusative | nom. | kebab | kebabit |
gen. | kebabin | ||
genitive | kebabin | kebabien | |
partitive | kebabia | kebabeja | |
inessive | kebabissa | kebabeissa | |
elative | kebabista | kebabeista | |
illative | kebabiin | kebabeihin | |
adessive | kebabilla | kebabeilla | |
ablative | kebabilta | kebabeilta | |
allative | kebabille | kebabeille | |
essive | kebabina | kebabeina | |
translative | kebabiksi | kebabeiksi | |
abessive | kebabitta | kebabeitta | |
instructive | — | kebabein | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “kebab”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02
French
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]kebab m (plural kebabs)
- kebab (dish of skewered meat and vegetables)
Further reading
[edit]- “kebab”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Indonesian
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Arabic كَبَاب (kabāb), ultimately from Proto-Semitic *kabab- (“to burn, to roast”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]kêbab
- kebab:
- A dish of pieces of meat, fish, or vegetables roasted on a skewer or spit, especially a doner kebab.
- 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.
Further reading
[edit]kebab on the Indonesian Wikipedia.Wikipedia id
Italian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Turkish kebap, from Arabic كَبَاب (kabāb, “fried meat”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]kebab m (invariable)
- kebab (dish of skewered meat and vegetables)
References
[edit]- ^ kebab in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
Norwegian Bokmål
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Turkish kebap, from Arabic كَبَاب (kabāb).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]kebab m (definite singular kebaben, indefinite plural kebaber, definite plural kebabene)
- kebab (dish of skewered meat and vegetables)
Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- “kebab” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Turkish kebap, from Arabic كَبَاب (kabāb).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]kebab m (definite singular kebaben, indefinite plural kebabar, definite plural kebabane)
- kebab (dish of skewered meat and vegetables)
Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- “kebab” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Polish
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Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]kebab m animal or m inan (related adjective kebabowy)
- doner kebab, gyro (Turkish dish in which meat (typically seasoned lamb or mutton, but alternatively chicken or perhaps beef) is grilled on a revolving vertical spit; when cooked, the meat is sliced off and served with fresh vegetables in pita or rolled in a piece of unleavened flatbread)
- Synonym: (slang) kebs
- (colloquial, metonymically) restaurant or bar that serves doner kebab
Declension
[edit]Noun
[edit]kebab m pers
- (derogatory, ethnic slur) Muslim person, especially of Turkish descent
Declension
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- kebab in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- kebab in Polish dictionaries at PWN
- kebab in PWN's encyclopedia
Portuguese
[edit]Pronunciation
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Noun
[edit]kebab m (plural kebabs)
- kebab (Turkish dish of skewered meat and vegetables)
Spanish
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]kebab m (plural kebabs)
- kebab, doner kebab (dish of skewered meat and vegetables)
Further reading
[edit]- “kebab”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Swedish
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Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Turkish kebap. According to SO attested since the 1970s.
Pronunciation
[edit]Audio: (file)
Noun
[edit]kebab c
- kebab, meat (often beef, sometimes lamb) roasted on an upright skewer
- Coordinate term: (pork kebab) gyros
- doner kebab, dish of skewered meat and vegetables served in pita bread
- Synonym: kebab med bröd
Declension
[edit]Declension of kebab | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | kebab | kebaben | kebaber | kebaberna |
Genitive | kebabs | kebabens | kebabers | kebabernas |
Derived terms
[edit]- fransk kebab (“kebab baguette”)
- kebab med bröd (“doner kebab”)
- kebabbröd (“pita bread”)
- kebabgrill (“kebab vendor”)
- kebabkök (“kebab vendor”)
- kebabkött (“kebab meat”)
- kebabpizza (“kebab pizza”)
- kebabrulle (“kebab roll”)
- kebabsås (“kebab sauce”)
- kebabtallrik (“kebab plate”)
- kycklingkebab (“chicken kebab”)
References
[edit]- English terms derived from Arabic
- English terms derived from Urdu
- English terms derived from Persian
- English terms derived from Turkish
- English doublets
- English terms derived from the Arabic root ك ب ب
- English 2-syllable words
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- Rhymes:English/æb
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- Rhymes:Dutch/ɑp
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- Finnish terms derived from Turkish
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- Rhymes:Finnish/ebɑb
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- fi:Foods
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- Rhymes:Indonesian/ap
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- Rhymes:Norwegian Bokmål/ɑb
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- nb:Foods
- Norwegian Nynorsk terms borrowed from Turkish
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- Rhymes:Norwegian Nynorsk/ɑb
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- Polish terms derived from Ottoman Turkish
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- Rhymes:Polish/ɛbap
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