yakitori
English
A dish of yakitori
Etymology
Borrowed from Japanese 焼き鳥 (やきとり), from 焼き (yaki, “grilled, toasted”) + 鳥 (tori, “bird”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /jækɪˈtɔəɹi/
Audio (Berkshire) (file)
Noun
yakitori (countable and uncountable, plural yakitori or yakitoris)
- A Japanese shish kebab-type dish made with small pieces of chicken or other ingredients cooked on skewers, often marinated in soy sauce or seasoned with salt.
- 1984, William Gibson, Neuromancer (Sprawl; book 1), New York, N.Y.: Ace Books, →ISBN, page 10:
- Friday night on Ninsei. He passed yakitori stands and massage parlors, a franchised coffee shop called Beautiful Girl, the electronic thunder of an arcade.
- 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, p. 851:
- We should have the bazaars full of yakitori pitches and geishas in bamboo cages.
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See also
- kushiyaki
Indonesian
Etymology
Borrowed from Japanese 焼き鳥 (やきとり, yakitori), from 焼き (yaki, “grilled, toasted”) + 鳥 (tori, “bird”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ja.ki.to.ri/
- Hyphenation: ya‧ki‧to‧ri
Noun
yakitori (first-person possessive yakitoriku, second-person possessive yakitorimu, third-person possessive yakitorinya)
- yakitori, a Japanese shish kebab-type dish made with small pieces of chicken, fish, vegetables or beef which have been marinated in soy sauce and then cooked on skewers.
Further reading
- “yakitori” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.
Japanese
Romanization
yakitori
- Rōmaji transcription of やきとり