kebab

noun
/kəˈbæb//kɪˈbæb/UK/kɪˈbɑb/US

Etymology

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

  1. derived from kebap
  2. derived from كَبَاب

Definitions

  1. A dish of pieces of meat, fish, or vegetables roasted on a skewer or spit, especially a…

    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…

    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. A shish kebab or any other food on a skewer.

  4. + 7 more definitions
    1. A restaurant that sells kebabs

      • Let's go to the kebab after the club.
    2. The outward growing portions of a shish kebab structure.

    3. A Muslim, usually of southern European, Middle Eastern, or North African descent.

    4. The vulva.

    5. A menu icon of three vertical dots.

    6. To roast in the style of a kebab.

    7. To stab or skewer.

      • 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.
      • 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.

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No curated loop yet for kebab. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA