كباب

According to Nişanyan, borrowed from Aramaic: compare Jewish Babylonian Aramaic כבבא‎ (kbbʾ, “roasting of meat”), כיבה‎ (kybʾ, “perhaps roasted meat”), which are from the verb כבב‎ (kbb, “to burn, roast”), ultimately from Proto-Afro-Asiatic *kab- (“to burn, roast”), whence also Akkadian 𒅗𒁀𒁍 (/kabābu/, “to burn”).

On the other hand, Wehr, Corriente and Seeger list the word under the root ك ب ب‎ (k-b-b) as a native Arabic formation.

كَبَاب

كَبَاب • (kabāb) m

1. (uncountable) kebab

• Andalusian Arabic: [script needed] (alkabāb)
  • → Latin: alchiebabat
• → Azeri: kabab
  • → Lak: кавав (kawaw)
  • → Lezgi: кабаб (kabab)
• → English: kebab, kebap (partly via Urdu, Persian, and Turkish)
• → Georgian: ქაბაბი (kababi)
• → German: Kebab (partly via Turkish)
• → Kazakh: кәуап (käwap)
• → Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: kebab, kivav

• → Kyrgyz: кебеп (kebep)
• → Middle Armenian: քաբաբ (kʿabab), քապապ (kʿapap)
  • Armenian: քաբաբ (kʿabab), քյաբաբ (kʿyabab), քէպապ (kʿēpap), քյա̈բաբ (kʿyäbab) (in most dialects via Ottoman Turkish)
• → Ottoman Turkish: كباب‎ (kebab, kebap)
  • Turkish: kebap
  • → Albanian: qebap
  • → Aromanian: chibape
  • → Bulgarian: кеба́п (kebáp), кебапь (kebapʹ)
  • → Crimean Tatar: кебап / kebap
  • → Greek: κεμπάπι (kempápi), κεμπάπ (kempáp)
  • → Macedonian: ќебап (ḱebap)
  • → Romanian: chebap
  • → Serbo-Croatian: ћевап / ćevap, ћеваб / ćevab, ћебап / ćebap
• → Persian: کباب‎ (kabâb)
  • Tajik: кабоб (kabob)
    • → Uzbek: kabob
    • → Sarikoli: kabub
    • → Yazgulyam: kabób
  • → Hindustani:
    • Hindi: कबाब (kabāb)
    • Urdu: کباب‎ (kabāb)
• → Tatar: кәбаб (qäbab)
• → Turkmen: kebap
• → Russian: каба́в (kabáv), кеба́в (kebáv), каба́ф (kabáf), кеба́ф (kebáf), кеба́б (kebáb) (via Turkic languages)

• Lokotsch, Karl (1927) Etymologisches Wörterbuch der europäischen Wörter orientalischen Ursprungs (in German), Heidelberg: Carl Winter’s Universitätsbuchhandlung, § 972, page 77
• Cabolov, R. L. (2001) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ kurdskovo jazyka [Etymological Dictionary of the Kurdish Language] (in Russian), volume I, Moscow: Russian Academy Press Vostochnaya Literatura, page 527
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “kebap”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Sokoloff, Michael (2002) A Dictionary of Jewish Babylonian Aramaic of the Talmudic and Geonic periods, Ramat Gan: Bar Ilan University, pages 549b, 574a
• Orel, Vladimir E.; Stolbova, Olga V. (1995), “*kab-”, in Hamito-Semitic Etymological Dictionary: Materials for a Reconstruction (Handbuch der Orientalistik; I.18), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill, § 1404, page 307
• kbb in the Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon. Retrieved 2015-08-24
• Wehr, Hans (1979), “كباب”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, page 946
• Corriente, F. (1997), “KBB”, in A Dictionary of Andalusi Arabic (Handbuch der Orientalistik; I.29), Leiden, New York, Köln: Brill, page 452b
• Seeger, Ulrich (2015), Wörterbuch Palästinensisch-Deutsch (uncorrected and incomplete manuscript), page 525