yakitori

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese ()(とり) (yakitori), from () (yaki, grilled, toasted) + (とり) (tori, bird).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /jækɪˈtɔəɹi/
    • Audio (Southern England):(file)

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

Indonesian

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese ()(とり) (yakitori), from () (yaki, grilled, toasted) + (とり) (tori, bird).

Pronunciation

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

Noun

yakitori

  1. yakitori (japanese shish kebab-type dish)

Further reading

Japanese

Romanization

yakitori

  1. Rōmaji transcription of やきとり