kebab
/kɪˈbæb/
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Australia/kəˈbæb/
kebab noun: a hand-held dish consisting of slices of meat or fish roasted on an upright skewer, usually mixed with fresh vegetables and sauces and served in flatbread, especially a doner kebab.
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Noun
kebab (plural kebabs)
- A hand-held dish consisting of slices of meat or fish roasted on an upright skewer, usually mixed with fresh vegetables and sauces and served in flatbread, especially a doner kebab.
- A shish kebab or any other food on a skewer.
- A dish made from shaped minced meat, usually grilled on a skewer but sometimes formed into a patty and fried or baked.
- A kebab that is also popular in Iran and Afghanistan is shammi kebab - a disk-shaped patty resembling a hamburger made of spiced ground meat and chickpeas beaten until they are light and airy and lightly sautéed in a pan.2013 September 9, Bruce Kraig, Colleen Taylor Sen, Street Food around the World: An Encyclopedia of Food and Culture, Bloomsbury Publishing USA, →ISBN, page 172
- A restaurant that sells kebabs
- Let's go to the kebab after the club.
- The outward growing portions of a shish kebab structure.
- A Muslim, usually of southern European, Middle Eastern, or North African descent.
- The vulva.
- A menu icon of three vertical dots.
Verb
kebab (third-person singular simple present kebabs, present participle kebabbing, simple past and past participle kebabbed)
- To roast in the style of a kebab.
- 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.2003, Julian Roup, A Fisherman in the Saddle, page 32
- 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.2011, Simon Sebag Montefiore, Jerusalem: The Biography – A History of the Middle East, page 343
kebab meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
kebab in Hindi
- dish
- कबाब kabāb
kebab in Tamil
- கபாப்
kebab in Marathi
- dish
- कबाब kabāb
kebab in Urdu
- dish
- کَباب kabāb
More languagesFewer languages
- kebab in Bengali
- কাবাব kabab
- kebab in Telugu
- కబాబ్
- kebab in Malayalam
- കബാബ്
- kebab in Kannada
- ಕಬಾಬ್
- kebab in Punjabi
- ਕਬਾਬ kabāb
- kebab in Gujarati
- કબાબ kabāb
- kebab in Odia
- କବାବ
- kebab in Assamese
- কাবাব kababo
- kebab in Nepali
- कबाब, काबाब
- kebab in Pashto
- کباب kabãb
- kebab in Tagalog
- kebab
- kebab in Arabic
- كَبَاب kabāb
- kebab in Malay
- kebab
- kebab in Indonesian
- kebab
- kebab in Myanmar
- ကဘတ် ka.bhat
Examples of kebab in a sentence
- Today we’re having slow-cooked lamb nihari, sag aloo, lentil dal, pilau rice, green salad and seekh kebab.
- They specialise in dishes from the Gaziantep region in south-east Turkey synonymous with kebabs.
- On the corner there are three men standing behind flaming barbecues of shashlik kebabs.
Synonyms of kebab
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Forms of kebab
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | kebabs |
| alternative form | kabaab |
| alternative form | kabob |
| alternative form | kebap |
| alternative form | kabab |
| alternative form | kebob |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | kebabs |
| present participle | kebabbing |
| past participle | kebabbed |
| past | kebabbed |
Origin of kebab
Ultimately from Arabic كَبَاب (kabāb), partly through Hindustani (Hindi and Urdu), Punjabi, Persian and Turkish kebap. Doublet of cevapi. See the Arabic entry for more.
Words formed from kebab
Phrases with kebab
Words that rhyme with kebab
Questions about kebab
- What does kebab mean?
- Kebab means a hand-held dish consisting of slices of meat or fish roasted on an upright skewer, usually mixed with fresh vegetables and sauces and served in flatbread, especially a doner kebab.
- What is kebab in Hindi?
- Kebab in Hindi is कबाब (kabāb). See Kebab meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is kebab?
- Kebab can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce kebab?
- Kebab is pronounced /kəˈbæb/ (Australia).
- What is the plural of kebab?
- The plural of kebab is kebabs.
Words near kebab in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: kebab (page history and authors); kebab (Tamil, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); kebab (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); kebab (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); kebab (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); kebab (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); কাবাব (Assamese) (page history and authors); kebab (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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