kebab

Meaning

Noun

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.
3. (US) A shish kebab or any other food on a skewer.
4. A restaurant that sells kebabs
5. The outward growing portions of a shish kebab structure.
6. (ethnic, offensive, slang, slur) A Muslim, usually of southern European, Middle Eastern, or North African descent.
7. (UK, slang, vulgar) The vulva.
8. A menu icon of three vertical dots.

Verb

1. (transitive) To roast in the style of a kebab.
2. (slang, transitive) To stab or skewer.

Synonyms

shish kebab

kabob

doner kebab

fish

🐟

souvlaki

donair

fafrotskies

shashlik

skewer

Translations

kebap

🥙

kebab

🥙

kébab

kebap

Döner

kebab

🥙

Kebab

🥙

κεμπάπ

brochette

kebab

🥙

ψάρι

Dönerkebab

σουβλάκι

γύρος

Pronounced as (IPA)

/kəˈbæb/

Etymology

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

Sentences

She can't survive a day without having a kebab .