shish kebab
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shish kebab
- /ˌʃɪʃkəˈbæb/ UK
- /ˈʃɪʃkəbɑb/ US
Where it comes from
From Turkish şiş kebap, from şiş (“skewer”) + kebap (“kebab”).
noun shish kebabs · shishkebab · shish kabob · shish kebob · shishkabob · shish kabab
- A dish made of small pieces of meat, with or without vegetables, which are skewered on a wooden or metal stick and roasted in an oven or over an open fire. “That’s terrible,” Mel said. “That’s a terrible thing, Nicky. I guess they’d just lay there and wait until somebody came along and made a shish kebab out of them.”
- A crystal structure consisting of a central spine (the shish) and disks or lumps growing out from it (the kebab). The fibrillar crystals, which are known as shish-kebabs, develop when a 0.5% solution of polyethylene in xylene is cooled off at the rate of 1°C per hour with stirring…
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noun roasted meat
| Español | pincho |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 시시 케밥 sisi kebap |
| 日本語 | 焼き鳥 yakitori |
| 中文 | 中東烤肉 /中东烤肉 zhōngdōng kǎoròu |
| Français | chichekébab |
| Deutsch | schisch kebab |
| Ελληνικά | σις κεμπάπ sis kempáp |
| Română | șiș chebap |
| Русский | шашлы́к šašlýk, шиш-кеба́б šiš-kebáb |
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title = {shish kebab},
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