kebab

Meanings

Noun

• A dish of pieces of meat, fish, or vegetables roasted on a skewer or spit, especially a doner kebab.
• 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.
• A shish kebab or any other food on a skewer.
• The outward growing portions of a shish kebab structure.
• A Muslim, usually of southern European, Middle Eastern, or North African descent.
• The vulva.

Verb

• To roast in the style of a kebab
• To stab or skewer

Origin

• From Arabic كَبَاب, partly through Urdu, Persian and Turkish kebap. cevapi. See the Arabic entry for more.