کباب

کباب

See also: كباب‎, کتاب‎, كتاب‎, and كناب‎

Persian

FWOTD – 3 January 2023

Dari	کباب
Iranian Persian
Tajik	кабоб (kabob)

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic كَبَاب‎ (kabāb).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): /kabɑːb/

• (Dari Persian) IPA^(key): /kabɑːb/

• (Iranian Persian) IPA^(key): /kæbɒːb/

• (Tajik) IPA^(key): /kabɔb/

Noun

کباب بختیاری‎ (kabâb-e baxtiyâri, “Bakhtiyari kebab”, type of Iranian kebab)

کباب • (kabâb) (plural کباب‌ها‎ (kabâb-hâ))

1. kebab (roast meat dish)
2. (figurative) heart burning with emotion; heart being "roasted" with yearning or grief

   ‏جگرم کباب شد.‎‎

   jegar-am kabâb šod.

   I felt terribly sad.

   (literally, “My liver became kebab.”)

   • c. 1390, Shams-ud-Dīn Muḥammad Ḥāfiẓ, “Ghazal 13”, in دیوان حافظ [The Divān of Ḥāfiẓ]‎:

     ‏لب و دندانْت را حقوق نمک
     هست بر جان و سینه‌هایِ کباب‎

     lab u dandān-t rā huqūq-i namak
     hast bar jān u sīna-hā-yi kabāb

     Your lips and teeth owe rights of salt
     To the soul and chests of [our] sizzling hearts.

     (Classical Persian transliteration)

Derived terms

dishes

• جوجه‌ کباب‎ (juje kabâb, “jujeh kabab”)
• شیش‌کباب‎ (šiš-kabâb, “shish kebab”)
• طاس کباب‎ (tâs kabâb, “tas kabab”)
• چلو کباب‎ (čelow kabâb, “chelow kabab”)
• کباب بختیاری‎ (kabâb-e baxtiyâri, “Bakhtiari kebab”)
• کباب برگ‎ (kabâb-e barg, “kabab barg”)
• کباب ترش‎ (kabâb torš, “kabab torsh”)
• کباب ترکی‎ (kabâb-e torki, “doner kebab”)
• کباب کوبیده‎ (kabâb kubide, “kabab koobideh”)

 

other

• کباب خانه‎ (kabâb xâne, “kebab restaurant”)
• کباب کردن‎ (kabâb kardan, “to roast; to afflict emotionally”)
• کبابی‎ (kabâbi, “kebab roaster; roasting, roastable”)
• کباب‌پز‎ (kabâb-paz, “kebab roaster”)

 

Descendants

• → Bengali: কাবাব (kababô), কবাব (kôbabô)
• → Chagatai: کباب‎ (kabāb)
  • Uyghur: كاۋاپ‎ (kawap)
  • Uzbek: kabob
• → Hindustani: kabāb

  Hindi: कबाब

  Urdu: کباب‎

• → Kazakh: кәуап (käuap), кәуәп (käuäp)
• → Kyrgyz: кебеп (kebep)
• → Marathi: कबाब (kabāb)
• → Pashto: کباب‎‎ (kabãb)
• → Punjabi: ਕਬਾਬ (kabāb)
• → Sarikoli: kabub
• → Tatar: кәбаб (käbab)
• → Yazghulami: kabób

References

• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892), “کباب”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul

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Urdu

Etymology

From Persian کباب‎ (kabâb).

Noun

کباب • (kabāb) m (Hindi spelling कबाब)

1. kebab