kebab

See also: kébab, and Kebab

English

Shish kebabs (sense 3)

Alternative forms

• kabaab, kabob, kebap, kabab, kebob

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (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

Noun

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

Derived terms

• badly packed kebab
• chapli kebab
• doner kebab
• kafta kebab
• kebab case
• remove kebab
• seekh kebab
• shami kebab
• shish kebab
• Wigan kebab

 

Translations

dish

• Albanian: qebab m
• Arabic: كَبَاب m (kabāb)
• Armenian: քյաբաբ (hy) (kʻyabab)
• Azerbaijani: kabab (az)
• Belarusian: кеба́б m (kjebáb), шашлы́к m (šašlýk)
• Bengali: কাবাব (bn) (kabab)
• 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 (ka) (kababi), მწვადი (ka) (mc̣vadi)
• German: Kebab (de) m, Kebap (de) m, Fleischspieß (de) m (skewered meat), Döner (de) m (doner kebab)
• Greek: κεμπάπ (el) n (kempáp)
• Gujarati: કબાબ n (kabāb)
• 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 (ja) (kebabu), 串焼き (ja) (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)
• Latin: alchiebābat (New Latin)
• Latvian: kebabs m
• Lezgi: кабаб (kabab)
• Lithuanian: kebabas m
• Macedonian: ќебап m (ḱebap), ражнич m (ražnič)
• Malay: kebab
• Maori: ōpūrau
• Marathi: कबाब m (kabāb)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: kebab

• Pashto: کباب (ps) m (kabãb)
• Persian: کباب (fa) (kabâb)
• Polish: kebab (pl) m
• Portuguese: kebab m, lanche grego m (Brazil)
• Punjabi: ਕਬਾਬ m (kabāb)
• 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

• Sicilian: kebab m, chibbàb m
• 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.

   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.

See also

• gyros
• shashlik
• shawarma
• souvlaki
• suya

Further reading

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

Czech

Noun

kebab m inan

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

Declension

Declension of kebab (hard masculine inanimate)

	singular	plural
nominative	kebab	kebaby
genitive	kebabu	kebabů
dative	kebabu	kebabům
accusative	kebab	kebaby
vocative	kebabe	kebaby
locative	kebabu	kebabech
instrumental	kebabem	kebaby

Related terms

• šiškebab

 

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:

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• 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/, [ˈk̟e̞bɑ̝b]
• 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
abessive		kebabitta	kebabeitta
instructive		—	kebabein
comitative		See the possessive forms below.

Possessive forms of kebab (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation)

first-person singular possessor singular plural nominative kebabini kebabini accusative nom. kebabini kebabini gen. kebabini genitive kebabini kebabieni partitive kebabiani kebabejani inessive kebabissani kebabeissani elative kebabistani kebabeistani illative kebabiini kebabeihini adessive kebabillani kebabeillani ablative kebabiltani kebabeiltani allative kebabilleni kebabeilleni essive kebabinani kebabeinani translative kebabikseni kebabeikseni abessive kebabittani kebabeittani instructive — — comitative — kebabeineni second-person singular possessor singular plural nominative kebabisi kebabisi accusative nom. kebabisi kebabisi gen. kebabisi genitive kebabisi kebabiesi partitive kebabiasi kebabejasi inessive kebabissasi kebabeissasi elative kebabistasi kebabeistasi illative kebabiisi kebabeihisi adessive kebabillasi kebabeillasi ablative kebabiltasi kebabeiltasi allative kebabillesi kebabeillesi essive kebabinasi kebabeinasi translative kebabiksesi kebabeiksesi abessive kebabittasi kebabeittasi instructive — — comitative — kebabeinesi first-person plural possessor singular plural nominative kebabimme kebabimme accusative nom. kebabimme kebabimme gen. kebabimme genitive kebabimme kebabiemme partitive kebabiamme kebabejamme inessive kebabissamme kebabeissamme elative kebabistamme kebabeistamme illative kebabiimme kebabeihimme adessive kebabillamme kebabeillamme ablative kebabiltamme kebabeiltamme allative kebabillemme kebabeillemme essive kebabinamme kebabeinamme translative kebabiksemme kebabeiksemme abessive kebabittamme kebabeittamme instructive — — comitative — kebabeinemme second-person plural possessor singular plural nominative kebabinne kebabinne accusative nom. kebabinne kebabinne gen. kebabinne genitive kebabinne kebabienne partitive kebabianne kebabejanne inessive kebabissanne kebabeissanne elative kebabistanne kebabeistanne illative kebabiinne kebabeihinne adessive kebabillanne kebabeillanne ablative kebabiltanne kebabeiltanne allative kebabillenne kebabeillenne essive kebabinanne kebabeinanne translative kebabiksenne kebabeiksenne abessive kebabittanne kebabeittanne instructive — — comitative — kebabeinenne third-person possessor singular plural nominative kebabinsa kebabinsa accusative nom. kebabinsa kebabinsa gen. kebabinsa genitive kebabinsa kebabiensa partitive kebabiaan kebabiansa kebabejaan kebabejansa inessive kebabissaan kebabissansa kebabeissaan kebabeissansa elative kebabistaan kebabistansa kebabeistaan kebabeistansa illative kebabiinsa kebabeihinsa adessive kebabillaan kebabillansa kebabeillaan kebabeillansa ablative kebabiltaan kebabiltansa kebabeiltaan kebabeiltansa allative kebabilleen kebabillensa kebabeilleen kebabeillensa essive kebabinaan kebabinansa kebabeinaan kebabeinansa translative kebabikseen kebabiksensa kebabeikseen kebabeiksensa abessive kebabittaan kebabittansa kebabeittaan kebabeittansa instructive — — comitative — kebabeineen kebabeinensa

Derived terms

• kebakko
• kebu

 

compounds

• karvakäsikebab
• kebabliha
• kebabravintola

 

Further reading

• “kebab”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02

French

Alternative forms

• kébab (post-1990 spelling)

Etymology

From Turkish kebap.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ke.bab/

• Audio:

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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.

Indonesian

Alternative forms

• kabab (nonstandard)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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.

Further reading

• kebab on the Indonesian Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^id

Italian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

kebab m (invariable)

1. kebab (dish of skewered meat and vegetables)

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• bab (slang)

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.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• bab (slang)

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.

Polish

kebab

Etymology

Borrowed from Turkish kebap.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɛ.bap/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ɛbap
• Syllabification: ke‧bab

Noun

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, metonymically) restaurant or bar that serves doner kebab

Declension

Declension of kebab

	singular	plural
nominative	kebab	kebaby
genitive	kebaba/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	kebabów
instrumental	kebabem	kebabami
locative	kebabie	kebabach
vocative	kebabie	kebaby

Derived terms

nouns

• kebabiarnia
• kebabomat
• kebs

 

Related terms

nouns

• kebabcze

 

Further reading

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

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /keˈba.bi/

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

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /kɛˈba.bɨ/ [kɛˈβa.βɨ]

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

• “kebab”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28

Swedish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Noun

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

Declension

Declension of kebab

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	kebab	kebabs
	definite	kebaben	kebabens
plural	indefinite	kebaber	kebabers
	definite	kebaberna	kebabernas

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)
• kebab in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)