kebab

See also: kébab and Kebab

English
shish kebabs (2)

Alternative forms

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Translations

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

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

Czech

Noun

kebab m

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

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

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

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

French

Alternative forms

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

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

Further reading

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)

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

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

References

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

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

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

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

Portuguese

Pronunciation
 
  • (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)

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

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
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