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كباب

كباب

See also: کباب, کتاب, and كتاب

Arabic

Noun

كَبَاب • ‎(kabāb) m

  1. kebab

Declension

Descendants

  • Andalusian Arabic: [script needed] ‎(alkabāb)
    • → Latin: alchiebabat
  • → Azeri: kabab
    • → Lak: кавав ‎(kawaw)
    • → Lezgi: кабаб ‎(kabab)
  • → English: kebab, kebap (partly via Urdu, Persian, and Turkish)
  • → Georgian: ქაბაბი ‎(kababi)
  • → German: Kebab
  • → Kazakh: кәуап ‎(käwap)
  • → Kurdish:
    Northern Kurdish: kebab, kivav
  • → Kyrgyz: кебеп ‎(kebep)
  • → Middle Armenian: քաբաբ ‎(kʿabab), քապապ ‎(kʿapap)
    • Armenian: քաբաբ ‎(kʿabab), քյաբաբ ‎(kʿyabab), քէպապ ‎(kʿēpap), քյա̈բաբ ‎(kʿyäbab) (in most dialects via Ottoman Turkish)
  • → Ottoman Turkish: كباب ‎(kebab, kebap)
    • Turkish: kebap
    • → Albanian: qebap
    • → Aromanian: chibape
    • → Bulgarian: кеба́п ‎(kebáp), кебапь ‎(kebapʹ)
    • → Crimean Tatar: кебап / kebap
    • → Greek: κεμπάπι ‎(kempápi), κεμπάπ ‎(kempáp)
    • → Macedonian: ќебап ‎(ḱebap)
    • → Romanian: chebap
    • → Serbo-Croatian: ћевап / ćevap, ћеваб / ćevab, ћебап / ćebap
  • → Persian: کباب ‎(kabâb)
    • Tajik: кабоб ‎(kabob)
      • → Uzbek: kabob
      • → Sarikoli: kabub
      • → Yazgulyam: kabób
    • → Hindustani:
  • → Tatar: кәбаб ‎(käbab)
  • → Turkmen: kebap
  • → Russian: каба́в ‎(kabáv), кеба́в ‎(kebáv), каба́ф ‎(kabáf), кеба́ф ‎(kebáf), кеба́б ‎(kebáb) (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. Retrieved 2015-08-24
  • Wehr, Hans (1976), “كباب”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 3rd edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, ISBN 0-87950-001-8, page 808b
  • Corriente, F. (1997), “KBB”, in A Dictionary of Andalusi Arabic (Handbuch der Orientalistik; I.29), Leiden, New York, Köln: Brill, page 452b
  • Ulrich Seeger (2015), Wörterbuch Palästinensisch-Deutsch (uncorrected and incomplete manuscript), page 525

Etymology

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-Afro-Asiatic *kab- ‎(“to burn, roast”), whence also Akkadian [script needed] ‎(kabābu, “to burn”).

On the other hand, Wehr, Corriente and Seeger list the word under the root ك ب ب ‎(k-b-b, “to overthrow, topple, knock to the ground; to ball, roll or form into a ball”) as a native Arabic formation.

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