kebab

• kabob, kebap, kabab, kebob

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

• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /kəˈbæb/
• Rhymes: -æb
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /kɪˈbæb/
• Rhymes: -æb
• (General American) IPA^(key): /kɪˈbɑb/
• Rhymes: -ɑːb

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. (US) A shish kebab or any other food on a skewer.
3. (slang, offensive, ethnic slur) A Muslim, usually of southern European, Middle Eastern, or North African descent.
4. (slang, vulgar, Britain) The vulva.

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.

• gyros
• shashlik
• shawarma
• souvlaki
• suya

kebab m

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

• šiškebab

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

From Turkish kebap.

kebab

1. kebab (dish of skewered meat and vegetables)

• (colloquial) kebbe

• kébab

From Turkish kebap.

• IPA^(key): /ke.bab/

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kebab m (plural kebabs)

1. kebab (dish of skewered meat and vegetables)

• “kebab” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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

• IPA^(key): /keˈbab/, [keˈbäb]
• Stress: kebàb
• Hyphenation: ke‧bab

kebab m (invariable)

1. kebab (dish of skewered meat and vegetables)

• (slang) bab

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.

• (slang) bab

From Turkish kebap, from Arabic كَبَاب‎ (kabāb).

• IPA^(key): /keːbɑb/
• 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.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɛ.bap/

kebab m inan

1. doner kebab
2. (colloquial, metonymically) restaurant or bar that serves this food

The incorrect genitive singular form kebaba is extremely common.

kebab m anim

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

kebab m (plural kebabs)

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

• IPA^(key): /keˈbab/, [keˈβaβ]

kebab m (plural kebabs)

1. kebab (dish of skewered meat and vegetables)

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kebab c

1. kebab (dish of skewered meat and vegetables)