yakitori

English

A dish of yakitori

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese 焼(や)き鳥(とり) (yakitori), from 焼(や)き (yaki, “grilled, toasted”) + 鳥(とり) (tori, “bird”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /jækɪˈtɔəɹi/

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Noun

yakitori (countable and uncountable, plural yakitori or yakitoris)

1. A Japanese shish kebab-type dish made with small pieces of chicken or other ingredients cooked on skewers, often marinated in soy sauce or seasoned with salt.
   • 1984, William Gibson, Neuromancer (Sprawl; book 1), New York, N.Y.: Ace Books, →ISBN, page 10:

     Friday night on Ninsei. He passed yakitori stands and massage parlors, a franchised coffee shop called Beautiful Girl, the electronic thunder of an arcade.

   • 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 851:

     We should have the bazaars full of yakitori pitches and geishas in bamboo cages.

See also

• kushiyaki

Indonesian

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese 焼(や)き鳥(とり) (yakitori), from 焼(や)き (yaki, “grilled, toasted”) + 鳥(とり) (tori, “bird”).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /jakiˈtori/ [ja.kiˈt̪o.ri]
• Syllabification: ya‧ki‧to‧ri

Noun

yakitori

1. yakitori (japanese shish kebab-type dish)

Further reading

• yakitori on the Indonesian Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^id
• “yakitori” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Japanese

Romanization

yakitori

1. Rōmaji transcription of やきとり