كباب

See also: کباب, کتاب, كتاب, and كناب

Arabic

Etymology

The root ك ب ب (k-b-b) appears to include various meanings of “rolling over”. But according to Nişanyan, borrowed from Aramaic: compare Jewish Babylonian Aramaic כבבא (kbbʾ, “roasting of meat”), כיבה (kybʾ, “perhaps roasted meat”), which are from the verb כבב (kbb, “to burn, roast”), ultimately from Proto-Semitic *kabab- (“to burn, to roast”), whence also Akkadian 𒅗𒁀𒁍 (/⁠kabābu⁠/, “to burn”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kaˈbaːb/

Noun

كَبَاب

كَبَاب • (kabāb) m

1. (uncountable) kebab

Declension

Declension of noun كَبَاب (kabāb)

Singular	basic singular triptote
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	كَبَاب kabāb	الْكَبَاب al-kabāb	كَبَاب kabāb
Nominative	كَبَابٌ kabābun	الْكَبَابُ al-kabābu	كَبَابُ kabābu
Accusative	كَبَابًا kabāban	الْكَبَابَ al-kabāba	كَبَابَ kabāba
Genitive	كَبَابٍ kabābin	الْكَبَابِ al-kabābi	كَبَابِ kabābi

Descendants

Descendants

• Andalusian Arabic: الكباب (al-kabāb)
  • → Latin: alchiebabat
• → Classical Persian: کباب (kabāb)
  • Persian: کَباب (kabâb)
  • Tajik: кабоб (kabob)
  • → Azerbaijani:

    Cyrillic script: кабаб

    Latin script: kabab

    • → Lak: кавав (kawaw)
    • → Lezgi: кабаб (kabab)
  • → Bengali: কাবাব (kabab), কবাব (kobab)
  • → Chagatai:
    • Uyghur:

      Arabic script: كاۋاپ (kawap)

      Cyrillic script: кавап (kawap)

    • Uzbek:

      Cyrillic script: кабоб

      Latin script: kabob

  • → Crimean Tatar:

    • Cyrillic script: кебап

      Latin script: kebap

  • → Kazakh:

    Arabic script: كاۋاپ

    Cyrillic script: кәуап (käuap), кәуәп (käuäp)

  • → Kyrgyz:

    Cyrillic script: кебеп (kebep)

  • → Old Hindi:
    • Hindi: कबाब (kabāb)
    • Urdu: کباب (kabāb)
  • → Ottoman Turkish: كَبٰابْ (kabāb /⁠käbab⁠/)
    • Turkish: kebap
      • → Norwegian Bokmål: kebab
      • → Swedish: kebab
    • → Albanian: qebap
    • → Aromanian: chibape
    • → Bulgarian: кеба́п (kebáp), кебапь (kebapʹ)
    • → English: kebab
    • → French: kébab m
    • → German: Kebab m
    • → Greek: κεμπάπι (kempápi), κεμπάπ n (kempáp)
    • → Macedonian: ќебап m (ḱebap)
    • → Norwegian Bokmål: kebab m
    • → Norwegian Nynorsk: kebab m
    • → Polish: kebab m
    • → Romanian: chebap n
    • → Serbo-Croatian:

      Serbo-Croatian: ћѐва̄п m, ћеваб m, ћебап m

      Serbo-Croatian: ćèvāp m, ćevab m, ćebap m

    • → Swedish: kebab c
    • → Ukrainian: кеба́б m (kebáb)
  • → Sarikoli: kabub
  • → Tatar:

    Cyrillic script: кәбаб (käbab)

  • → Turkmen:

    Latin script: kebap

  • → Yazghulami: kabób
• → English: kebab, kebap, kabob (partly via Urdu, Persian, and Turkish)
• → Georgian: ქაბაბი (kababi)
  • → Bats: ქაბაბ (kabab)
• → Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: kebab, kivav

• → Middle Armenian: քաբաբ (kʻabab), քապապ (kʻapap)
  • Armenian: քաբաբ (kʻabab), քյաբաբ (kʻyabab), քէպապ (kʻēpap), քյա̈բաբ (kʻyäbab) (in most dialects via Ottoman Turkish)
• → Russian: кеба́б (kebáb), каба́в (kabáv), кеба́в (kebáv), каба́ф (kabáf), кеба́ф (kebáf) (via Turkic languages)

References

• Lokotsch, Karl (1927) Etymologisches Wörterbuch der europäischen Wörter orientalischen Ursprungs (in German), Heidelberg: Carl Winter’s Universitätsbuchhandlung, § 972, page 77
• Cabolov, R. L. (2001) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ kurdskovo jazyka [Etymological Dictionary of the Kurdish Language] (in Russian), volume I, Moscow: Russian Academy Press Vostochnaya Literatura, page 527
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “kebap”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Sokoloff, Michael (2002) A Dictionary of Jewish Babylonian Aramaic of the Talmudic and Geonic periods, Ramat Gan: Bar Ilan University, pages 549b, 574a
• Orel, Vladimir E., Stolbova, Olga V. (1995) “*kab-”, in Hamito-Semitic Etymological Dictionary: Materials for a Reconstruction (Handbuch der Orientalistik; I.18), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill, § 1404, page 307
• “kbb”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–
• Wehr, Hans (1979) “كباب”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, page 946
• Corriente, F. (1997) “KBB”, in A Dictionary of Andalusi Arabic (Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1 The Near and Middle East; 29)‎^[1], Leiden, New York, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 452b
• Seeger, Ulrich (2015), Wörterbuch Palästinensisch-Deutsch (uncorrected and incomplete manuscript), page 525