doner kebab

English

Alternative forms

• döner kebab, doner kebap, döner kebap

Etymology

From Turkish döner kebap (with the second element respelled to match kebab), from döner (“turning, rotating, revolving”) + kebap (“kebab”)

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈdɒn.ə(ɹ) kəˌbæb/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌdoʊ.nɚ kɪˈbɑb/

Noun

doner kebab (countable and uncountable, plural doner kebabs)

1. A 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.

Translations

Turkish dish of grilled meat served with pita

• Azerbaijani: dönər
• Finnish: döner
• French: sandwich grec m, döner kebab (fr), doner kebab (fr)
• German: Döner (de) m, Döner Kebab (de) m
• Greek: γύρος (el) m (gýros)
• Hungarian: gírosz (hu)
• Polish: kebab (pl) m, kebs (pl) m
• Portuguese: churrasco grego m (Brazil)
• Romanian: șaorma (ro) f
• Spanish: kebab (es) m
• Swedish: kebab (sv) c, kebab med bröd c, kebabrulle c
• Turkish: döner kebap (tr), döner (tr)
• Welsh: cebab doner m

See also

• gyro

Further reading

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

Spanish

Noun

doner kebab m (plural doner kebabs)

1. doner kebab