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shashlik

shashlik noun: a form of shish kebab, originally made of marinated lamb meat.

shashlik: a form of shish kebab, originally made of marinated lamb meat
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Noun

shashlik (countable and uncountable, plural shashliks or shashliki)

  1. A form of shish kebab, originally made of marinated lamb meat.
    • Men entered the room bearing skewers of tikas—kebabs or shashliki, we would call them—spitted chunks of lamb that had been roasted with onions and other seasoning.1958 May, Christopher Rand, “Journey Through the Khyber Pass”, in Ted Patrick, editor, Holiday, volume 23, number 5, Philadelphia, Pa.: The Curtis Publishing Company, →ISSN, page 158, column 2
    • Everyone went to the Pump Room where the children would be entertained by the Nubian Slaves with flaming skewers of shashlik, while their parents talked to Irving Kupcinet, the Eiffel Tower of Chicago columnists.1963, Jill Schary Zimmer, “Where the Summer People Go in Summer”, in With a Cast of Thousands: A Hollywood Childhood, New York, N.Y.: Stein and Day, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 159

shashlik meaning in Arabic and Persian

shashlik in Arabic

skewered dish
شِيشْلِيك šišlīk

shashlik in Persian

skewered dish
شیشلیک šišlik

Examples of shashlik in a sentence

  • Some, having lighted a fire on the ground, cook (some) food, roast (some) shashliki.1987, William R. Schmalstieg, “The Adverbal Genitive Case”, in A Lithuanian Historical Syntax, Columbus, Oh.: Slavica Publishers, Inc....
  • You may well have heard of some of the national dishes of the Soviet Union, such as Borsch (beetroot soup), Bliny (pancakes), Beef Stroganoff, Chicken Kiev and Shashliki (Georgian kebabs).1989, Nuffield/Schools Council Russian Teachers’ Association, “Unit 8: Celebrations”, in Iskra 2, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire: Stanley...
  • The pork shashliki which they had marinated in a large glass jar all day were speared onto long metal skewers, and these were placed over the fire, straddling the large stones.1989 March, Kaylie Jones, “The Five-Year Plan”, in Quite the Other Way, New York, N.Y.: Doubleday, →ISBN, page 323:
  • On the menu at the restaurant (open noon to 6pm; and from 8pm to 2am) are pelmeni and shashliki, as well as other Russian dishes – a live band strikes up after 9pm.1996, Robert Strauss, Tamsin Turnbull, “[Around Lake Baikal - The North] Severobaikalsk”, in The Trans-Siberian Rail Guide, 4th edition...

Forms of shashlik

pluralshashliks
pluralshashliki
alternative formshashlick
alternative formshashlyk
alternative formshaslik

Origin of shashlik

Borrowed from Russian шашлы́к (šašlýk), from Crimean Tatar şışlıq / шишлик (şişlik, “something to be cooked on a skewer”), ultimately from Turkic; compare Turkish şaşlık/ şişlik. Doublet of chislic.

Questions about shashlik

What does shashlik mean?
Shashlik means a form of shish kebab, originally made of marinated lamb meat.
What is shashlik in Arabic?
Shashlik in Arabic is شِيشْلِيك (šišlīk). See Shashlik meaning in Arabic.
How do you use shashlik in a sentence?
Some, having lighted a fire on the ground, cook (some) food, roast (some) shashliki.
What part of speech is shashlik?
Shashlik is a noun.
What is the plural of shashlik?
The plural of shashlik is shashliks.

Words near shashlik in the dictionary

  1. shashiyas
  2. shashka
  3. shashkas
  4. shashlick
  5. shashlicks
  6. shashlik
  7. shashliki
  8. shashliks
  9. shashlyk
  10. shashlyki
  11. shashlyks

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