کباب

See also: كباب, کتاب, كتاب, and كناب

Persian

FWOTD – 3 January 2023

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic كَبَاب (kabāb).

Pronunciation

(Classical Persian) IPA^(key): /ka.ˈbaːb/

(Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [kʰä.bɑːb]
- (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [kʰä.bɑːb]
- (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [kʰä.bɔːb̥]

(Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [kʰʲæ.bɒːb̥]

(Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [kʰä.bɔb]

Readings
Classical reading^?	kabāb
Dari reading^?	kabāb
Iranian reading^?	kabâb
Tajik reading^?	kabob

Audio (Iran): (file)

Noun

کباب • (kabāb / kabâb) (plural کباب‌ها (kabāb-hā / kabâb-hâ), Tajik spelling кабоб)

kebab (roast meat dish)
(figurative) heart burning with emotion; heart being "roasted" with yearning or grief
jegar-am kabâb šod.
I felt terribly sad.
(literally, “My liver became kebab.”)
- c. 1390, Shams-ud-Dīn Muḥammad Ḥāfiẓ, “Ghazal 13”, in دیوان حافظ [The Divān of Ḥāfiẓ]‎^[1]:
  لب و دندانْت را حقوق نمک
  هست بر جان و سینه‌هایِ کباب
  lab u dandân-t râ huqûq-i namak
  hast bar jân u sîna-hâ-yi kabâb
  Your lips and teeth owe rights of salt
  To the soul and chests of [our] sizzling hearts.
  (Classical Persian transliteration)

Derived terms

dishes

جوجه‌ کباب (juje kabâb, “jujeh kabab”)
شیش‌کباب (šiš-kabâb, “shish kebab”)
طاس کباب (tâs kabâb, “tas kabab”)
چلو کباب (čelow kabâb, “chelow kabab”)
کباب بختیاری (kabâb-e baxtiyâri, “Bakhtiari kebab”)
کباب برگ (kabâb-e barg, “kabab barg”)
کباب ترش (kabâb torš, “kabab torsh”)
کباب ترکی (kabâb-e torki, “doner kebab”)
کباب کوبیده (kabâb kubide, “kabab koobideh”)

other

کباب خانه (kabâb xâne, “kebab restaurant”)
کباب کردن (kabâb kardan, “to roast; to afflict emotionally”)
کبابی (kabâbi, “kebab roaster; roasting, roastable”)
کباب‌پز (kabâb-paz, “kebab roaster”)

Descendants

→ Bengali: কাবাব (kabab), কবাব (kobab)
→ Chagatai: کباب (kabāb)
- Uyghur: كاۋاپ (kawap)
- Uzbek: kabob
→ Gujarati: કબાબ (kabāb)
→ Hindustani:
Hindi: कबाब (kabāb)

Urdu: کباب (kabāb)
→ Kazakh: кәуап (käuap), кәуәп (käuäp)
→ Kyrgyz: кебеп (kebep)
→ Marathi: कबाब (kabāb)
→ Pashto: کباب (kabãb)
→ Punjabi: ਕਬਾਬ (kabāb)
→ Sarikoli: kabub
→ Tatar: кәбаб (käbab)
→ Yazghulami: kabób

References

Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892) “کباب”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian (kabāb), from Arabic كَبَاب (kabāb).

Noun

کباب • (kabāb) m (Hindi spelling कबाब)

kebab