kebab

• kabaab, kabob, kebap, kabab, kebob

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

• (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):

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• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ɑːb

kebab (plural kebabs)

1. (British) 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.
4. (US) A shish kebab or any other food on a skewer.
5. A restaurant that sells kebabs

   Let's go to the kebab after the club.

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

   Coordinate terms: meatball, hamburger, bento

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.

   Synonyms: run through, spear; see also Thesaurus:stab, Thesaurus:impale

   • 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.

• gyros
• shashlik
• shawarma
• souvlaki
• suya

• kebab on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “kebab”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Czech Wikipedia has an article on:

kebab

Wikipedia ^cs

• IPA^(key):

kebab m inan

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

• “kebab”, in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu (in Czech)
• “kebab”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025

Danish Wikipedia has an article on:

kebab

Wikipedia ^da

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

• IPA^(key):

kebab (singular definite kebabben, plural indefinite kebbaber)

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

• lammekebab
• rullekebab

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

• IPA^(key): /kəˈbɑp/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: ke‧bab
• Rhymes: -ɑp

kebab m (uncountable)

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

• kebabtent
• kebabzaak

From Turkish kebap, from Arabic كَبَاب (kabāb).

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

kebab

1. kebab (dish of skewered meat and vegetables)

   Synonyms: (colloquial) kebu, kebbe

• “kebab”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja ‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2 July 2023

• kébab (post-1990 spelling)

From Turkish kebap.

• IPA^(key): /ke.bab/

• Audio:

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kebab m (plural kebabs)

1. kebab (dish of skewered meat and vegetables)

• “kebab”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.

• kabab (nonstandard)

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

• IPA^(key): /kəˈbap/, /kəˈbap̚/
• Rhymes: -ap
• Hyphenation: kê‧bab

kêbab

1. kebab:
   1. a dish of pieces of meat, fish, or vegetables roasted on a skewer or spit, especially a doner kebab
   2. 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

• kebab on the Indonesian Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^id

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

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

kebab m (invariable)

1. kebab (dish of skewered meat and vegetables)

Norwegian Wikipedia has an article on:

kebab

Wikipedia ^no

• bab (slang)

From Turkish kebap, from Arabic كَبَاب (kabāb).

• IPA^(key): /keːbɑb/
• Rhymes: -ɑb

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

1. kebab (dish of skewered meat and vegetables)

• hvalkebab
• rullekebab

• “kebab” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk Wikipedia has an article on:

kebab

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• bab (slang)

From Turkish kebap, from Arabic كَبَاب (kabāb).

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

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

1. kebab (dish of skewered meat and vegetables)

• kvalkebab
• rullekebab

• “kebab” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Polish Wikipedia has an article on:

kebab

Wikipedia ^pl

Borrowed from Turkish kebap.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɛ.bap/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ɛbap
• Syllabification: ke‧bab

kebab m animal or m inan (related adjective kebabowy)

1. 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

2. (colloquial, metonymic) restaurant or bar that serves doner kebab

kebab m pers

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

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

kebab m (plural kebabs)

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

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

kebab m (plural kebabs)

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

• “kebab”, in Diccionario de la lengua española (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy , 10 December 2024

Swedish Wikipedia has an article on:

kebab

Wikipedia ^sv

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

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kebab c

1. kebab, meat (often beef, sometimes lamb or pork) 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

• kebab in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• kebab in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)