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kebab

noun
🔊/kɪˈbæb/
🔊/kɪˈbɑːb/
(North American English also kabob)
(also shish kebab especially in North American English)
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  1. small pieces of meat and vegetables cooked on a wooden or metal stick烤肉串 see also doner kebabTopics Foodb2
    Oxford Collocations DictionaryKebab is used before these nouns:
    • van
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    Word Originlate 17th cent.: from Arabic kabāb, partly via Urdu, Persian, and Turkish.