kebab

kebab

See also: kébab and Kebab

English

shish kebabs (2)

Alternative forms

• kabaab, kabob, kebap, kabab, kebob

Etymology

From Arabic كَبَاب‎ (kabāb), partly through Urdu, Persian and Turkish kebap.[1] Doublet of cevapi. See the Arabic entry for more.

Pronunciation

• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /kəˈbæb/
• Rhymes: -æb
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /kɪˈbæb/
• Rhymes: -æb
• (General American) IPA^(key): /kɪˈbɑb/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /kɪˈbɑːb/

• Audio (AU)

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɑːb

Noun

kebab (plural kebabs)

1. (Britain) A dish of pieces of meat, fish, or vegetables roasted on a skewer or spit, especially a doner kebab.
2. (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.
3. (US) A shish kebab or any other food on a skewer.
4. A restaurant that sells kebabs

   Let's go to the kebab after the club.

5. (chemistry) The outward growing portions of a shish kebab structure.
6. (slang, offensive, ethnic slur) A Muslim, usually of southern European, Middle Eastern, or North African descent.
7. (slang, vulgar, UK) The vulva.
8. (graphical user interface) menu icon of three vertical dots

   Coordinate terms: meatball, kebab, hamburger, bento

Derived terms

• chapli kebab
• doner kebab
• kafta kebab
• remove kebab
• seekh kebab
• shish kebab

 

Translations

a dish of pieces of meat, fish, or vegetables roasted on a skewer or spit, especially a doner kebab

Albanian: qebab m Arabic: كَبَاب‎ m (kabāb) Armenian: քյաբաբ (hy) (kʿyabab) Azerbaijani: kabab (az) Belarusian: кеба́б m (kjebáb), шашлы́к m (šašlýk) Bengali: কাবাব (bn) (kababô) Bulgarian: кеба́пче n (kebápče), кеба́п m (kebáp) Burmese: ကဘတ် (ka.bhat) Chinese: Mandarin: 烤肉串 (kǎoròu chuàn), 串燒／串烧 (zh) (chuànshāo), 卡巴 (kǎbā) Czech: kebab (cs) m Danish: kebab (da) c Esperanto: kebabo Estonian: kebab (et) Finnish: kebab (fi) French: kebab (fr) m, kebap (fr) m (rare), kébab (fr) m Galician: kebab (gl) m Georgian: ქაბაბი (kababi), მწვადი (mc̣vadi) German: Kebab (de) m, Kebap (de) m, Fleischspieß (de) m (skewered meat), Döner (de) m (doner kebab) Greek: κεμπάπ (el) n (kempáp) Hebrew: כַּבָּבּ‎ (he) m (kabáb), קַבָּבּ‎ (he) m (kabáb) Hindi: कबाब (hi) m (kabāb) Hungarian: gírosz (hu), kebab (hu) Indonesian: kebab (id) Italian: kebab (it) m Japanese: ケバブ (kebabu), 串焼き (くしやき, kushiyaki) Kazakh: кәуап (käuap) Korean: 케밥 (kebap) Kumyk: кабап (kabap) Kurdish: Central Kurdish: تکە‎ (tke) Northern Kurdish: kebab (ku) Kyrgyz: кебеп (kebep) Latvian: kebabs m Lezgi: кабаб (kabab) Lithuanian: kebabas m Macedonian: ќебап m (ḱebap), ражнич m (ražnič) Malay: kebab Marathi: कबाब m (kabāb) Norwegian: Bokmål: kebab Pashto: کباب‎ (ps) m (kabãb) Persian: کباب‎ (fa) (kabâb) Punjabi: ਕਬਾਬ m (kabāb) Polish: kebab (pl) m Portuguese: kebab m, lanche grego m (in Brazil) Romanian: kebab n Russian: кеба́б (ru) m (kebáb), шашлы́к (ru) m (šašlýk) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: ћѐва̄п m, кѐбаб m ражњићи m, ра̀жњић m, шишћевапи m Roman: ćèvāp m, kèbab (sh) m, ražnjići m pl, ràžnjić m, šišćevapi m pl Slovak: kebab m Slovene: ražnjič m, kebab m Spanish: kebab (es) m Swahili: mshikaki Swedish: kebab (sv) c Tagalog: kebab Tajik: кабоб (tg) (kabob) Tatar: кәбаб (käbab) Turkish: kebap (tr) Turkmen: kebob Ukrainian: кеба́б m (kebáb), шашли́к m (šašlýk) Urdu: کباب‎ m (kabāb) Uyghur: كاۋاپ‎ (ug) (kawap) Uzbek: kabob (uz)

Verb

kebab (third-person singular simple present kebabs, present participle kebabbing, simple past and past participle kebabbed)

1. (transitive) To roast in the style of a kebab
2. (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.

See also

• gyros
• shashlik
• shawarma
• souvlaki
• suya

References

1. 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

• kebab on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• kebab at OneLook Dictionary Search

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Czech

Noun

kebab m

1. kebab (dish, whether shish kebab or donner kebab)

Related terms

• šiškebab

Further reading

• kebab in Akademický slovník cizích slov, 1995, at prirucka.ujc.cas.cz

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Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Turkish kebap, from Arabic كَبَاب‎ (kabāb).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kəˈbɑp/

• Audio

  (file)

• Hyphenation: ke‧bab
• Rhymes: -ɑp

Noun

kebab m (uncountable)

1. kebab (seasoned meat grilled on a spit), esp. doner kebab

Derived terms

• kebabtent
• kebabzaak

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Finnish

Etymology

From Turkish kebap, from Arabic كَبَاب‎ (kabāb).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkebɑb/, [ˈke̞bɑb]
• Rhymes: -ebɑb
• Syllabification^(key): ke‧bab

Noun

kebab

1. kebab (dish of skewered meat and vegetables)

   Synonyms: (colloquial) kebu, kebbe

Declension

Inflection of kebab (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation)
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
instructive		—	kebabein
abessive		kebabitta	kebabeitta
comitative		—	kebabeineen

Possessive forms of kebab (type risti)
possessor	singular	plural
1st person	kebabini	kebabimme
2nd person	kebabisi	kebabinne
3rd person	kebabinsa

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French

Alternative forms

• kébab (post-1990 spelling)

Etymology

From Turkish kebap.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ke.bab/

• Audio

  (file)

Noun

kebab m (plural kebabs)

1. kebab (dish of skewered meat and vegetables)

Further reading

• “kebab”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Indonesian

Etymology

From Arabic كَبَاب‎ (kabāb), ultimately from Proto-Semitic *kabab- (“to burn, to roast”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [kəˈbap̚]
• Hyphenation: kê‧bab

Noun

kebab (first-person possessive kebabku, second-person possessive kebabmu, third-person possessive kebabnya)

1. (cooking) kebab.

Alternative forms

• kabab

Further reading

• “kebab” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

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Italian

Etymology

From Turkish kebap, from Arabic كَبَاب‎ (kabāb, “fried meat”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /keˈbab/[1]
• Rhymes: -ab
• Hyphenation: ke‧bàb

Noun

kebab m (invariable)

1. kebab (dish of skewered meat and vegetables)

References

1. kebab in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

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Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• (slang) bab

Etymology

From Turkish kebap, from Arabic كَبَاب‎ (kabāb).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /keːbɑb/
• Rhymes: -ɑb

Noun

kebab m (definite singular kebaben, indefinite plural kebaber, definite plural kebabene)

1. kebab (dish of skewered meat and vegetables)

Derived terms

• hvalkebab
• rullekebab

References

• “kebab” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• (slang) bab

Etymology

From Turkish kebap, from Arabic كَبَاب‎ (kabāb).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /keːbɑb/, /keːbɑːb/
• Rhymes: -ɑb

Noun

kebab m (definite singular kebaben, indefinite plural kebabar, definite plural kebabane)

1. kebab (dish of skewered meat and vegetables)

Derived terms

• kvalkebab
• rullekebab

References

• “kebab” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from Turkish kebap.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɛ.bap/

• Audio

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɛbap
• Syllabification: ke‧bab

Noun

kebab m inan

1. doner kebab, gyro
2. (colloquial, metonymically) a restaurant or bar that serves this food

Usage notes

The incorrect genitive singular form kebaba is prevalent in common speech.

Declension

Declension of kebab

	singular	plural
nominative	kebab	kebaby
genitive	kebabu	kebabów
dative	kebabowi	kebabom
accusative	kebab	kebaby
instrumental	kebabem	kebabami
locative	kebabie	kebabach
vocative	kebabie	kebaby

Noun

kebab m pers

1. (derogatory, ethnic slur) Muslim person, especially of Turkish descent

Declension

Declension of kebab

	singular	plural
nominative	kebab	kebaby
genitive	kebaba	kebabów
dative	kebabowi	kebabom
accusative	kebaba	kebaby
instrumental	kebabem	kebabami
locative	kebabie	kebabach
vocative	kebabie	kebaby

Derived terms

noun

• kebs

 

Further reading

• kebab in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• kebab in Polish dictionaries at PWN

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Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /keˈba.bi/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /keˈba.bi/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /keˈba.be/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /kɛˈba.b(ɨ)/ [kɛˈβa.β(ɨ)]

Noun

kebab m (plural kebabs)

1. kebab (Turkish dish of skewered meat and vegetables)

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /keˈbab/ [keˈβ̞aβ̞]
• Rhymes: -ab
• Syllabification: ke‧bab

Noun

kebab m (plural kebabs)

1. kebab, doner kebab (dish of skewered meat and vegetables)

Further reading

• “kebab”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

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Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from Turkish kebab. According to SO attested since the 1970s.

Pronunciation

• Audio

  (file)

Noun

kebab c

1. kebab, meat (often beef, sometimes lamb) roasted on an upright skewer

   Coordinate term: (pork kebab) gyros

2. doner kebab, dish of skewered meat and vegetables served in pita bread

   Synonym: kebab med bröd

Declension

Declension of kebab
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	kebab	kebaben	kebaber	kebaberna
Genitive	kebabs	kebabens	kebabers	kebabernas

Derived terms

Derived terms

• 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

• kebab in Svensk ordbok (SO)