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5-letter words (1 found)

KEBAB,

4-letter words (4 found)

ABBE,BABE,BAKE,BEAK,

3-letter words (8 found)

ABB,AKE,BAE,EBB,KAB,KAE,KEA,KEB,

2-letter words (6 found)

AB,AE,BA,BE,EA,KA,

1-letter words (1 found)

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You can make 20 words from kebab according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of kebab

kebab

English

Alternative forms

  • kabaab, kabob, kebap, kabab, kebob

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • (General Australian) IPA(key): /kəˈbæb/
  • Rhymes: -æb
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /kɪˈbæb/ (usual), IPA(key): /kɪˈbɑːb/ (less common)
  • Rhymes: -æb
  • (General American) IPA(key): /kɪˈbɑb/
  • Rhymes: -ɑːb

Noun

kebab (plural kebabs)

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

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

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.
    Synonyms: run through, spear; see also Thesaurus:stab, Thesaurus:impale

See also

  • gyros
  • shashlik
  • shawarma
  • souvlaki
  • suya

References

Further reading

  • kebab on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • “kebab”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Czech

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈkɛbap]

Noun

kebab m inan

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

Declension

Related terms

Further reading

  • “kebab”, in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu (in Czech)
  • “kebab”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025

Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from Turkish kebap, Derived from Arabic كَبَاب (kabāb).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [keˈbɑb]

Noun

kebab (singular definite kebabben, plural indefinite kebbaber)

  1. kebab (seasoned meat grilled on a spit), esp. doner kebab

Inflection

Derived terms

  • lammekebab
  • rullekebab

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Turkish kebap, from Arabic كَبَاب (kabāb).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kəˈbɑp/
  • Hyphenation: ke‧bab
  • Rhymes: -ɑp

Noun

kebab m (uncountable)

  1. kebab (seasoned meat grilled on a spit), esp. doner kebab

Derived terms

  • kebabtent
  • kebabzaak

Finnish

Etymology

From Turkish kebap, from Arabic كَبَاب (kabāb).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkebɑb/, [ˈk̟e̞bɑ̝b]
  • Rhymes: -ebɑb
  • Syllabification(key): ke‧bab
  • Hyphenation(key): ke‧bab

Noun

kebab

  1. kebab (dish of skewered meat and vegetables)
    Synonyms: (colloquial) kebu, kebbe

Declension

Derived terms

Further reading

  • “kebab”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02

French

Alternative forms

  • kébab (post-1990 spelling)

Etymology

From Turkish kebap.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ke.bab/

Noun

kebab m (plural kebabs)

  1. kebab (dish of skewered meat and vegetables)

Further reading

  • “kebab”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Indonesian

Alternative forms

  • kabab (nonstandard)

Etymology

From Arabic كَبَاب (kabāb), ultimately from Proto-Semitic *kabab- (“to burn, to roast”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kəˈbap/, /kəˈbap̚/
  • Rhymes: -ap
  • Hyphenation: kê‧bab

Noun

kêbab

  1. kebab:
    1. a dish of pieces of meat, fish, or vegetables roasted on a skewer or spit, especially a doner kebab
    2. 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

Further reading

  • kebab on the Indonesian Wikipedia.Wikipedia id

Italian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /keˈbab/
  • Rhymes: -ab
  • Hyphenation: ke‧bàb

Noun

kebab m (invariable)

  1. kebab (dish of skewered meat and vegetables)

References

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

  • bab (slang)

Etymology

From Turkish kebap, from Arabic كَبَاب (kabāb).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /keːbɑb/
  • Rhymes: -ɑb

Noun

kebab m (definite singular kebaben, indefinite plural kebaber, definite plural kebabene)

  1. kebab (dish of skewered meat and vegetables)

Derived terms

  • hvalkebab
  • rullekebab

References

  • “kebab” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

  • bab (slang)

Etymology

From Turkish kebap, from Arabic كَبَاب (kabāb).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /keːbɑb/, /keːbɑːb/
  • Rhymes: -ɑb

Noun

kebab m (definite singular kebaben, indefinite plural kebabar, definite plural kebabane)

  1. kebab (dish of skewered meat and vegetables)

Derived terms

  • kvalkebab
  • rullekebab

References

  • “kebab” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from Turkish kebap.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkɛ.bap/
  • Rhymes: -ɛbap
  • Syllabification: ke‧bab

Noun

kebab m animal or m inan (related adjective kebabowy)

  1. doner kebab, gyro (Turkish dish in which meat (typically seasoned lamb or mutton, but alternatively chicken or perhaps beef) is grilled on a revolving vertical spit; when cooked, the meat is sliced off and served with fresh vegetables in pita or rolled in a piece of unleavened flatbread)
    Synonym: (slang) kebs
  2. (colloquial, metonymic) restaurant or bar that serves doner kebab

Declension

Noun

kebab m pers

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

Declension

Derived terms

Related terms

Further reading

  • kebab in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • kebab in Polish dictionaries at PWN
  • kebab in PWN's encyclopedia

Portuguese

Pronunciation

Noun

kebab m (plural kebabs)

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

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /keˈbab/ [keˈβ̞aβ̞]
  • Rhymes: -ab
  • Syllabification: ke‧bab

Noun

kebab m (plural kebabs)

  1. kebab, doner kebab (dish of skewered meat and vegetables)

Further reading

  • “kebab”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from Turkish kebap. According to SO attested since the 1970s.

Pronunciation

Noun

kebab c

  1. kebab, meat (often beef, sometimes lamb or pork) roasted on an upright skewer
    Coordinate term: (pork kebab) gyros
  2. doner kebab, dish of skewered meat and vegetables served in pita bread
    Synonym: kebab med bröd

Declension

Derived terms

References

  • kebab in Svensk ordbok (SO)
  • kebab in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)

Source: wiktionary.org