کباب

See also: كباب, کتاب, كتاب, and كناب

Persian

FWOTD – 3 January 2023

Dari	کباب
Iranian Persian
Tajik	кабоб

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic كَبَاب (kabāb).

Pronunciation

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• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [ka.βɑːβ]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [kʰä.bɑːb]

• (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?	kaḇāḇ
Dari reading?	kabāb
Iranian reading?	kabâb
Tajik reading?	kabob

Noun

کباب بختیاری (kabâb-e baxtiyâri, “Bakhtiyari kebab”, type of Iranian kebab)

کباب • (kabâb) (plural کباب‌ها (kabâb-hâ))

1. kebab (roast meat dish)
2. (figurative) heart burning with emotion; heart being "roasted" with yearning or grief

   جگرم کباب شد.

   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: kabāb

  Hindi: कबाब

  Urdu: کباب

• → 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 کباب (kabāb), from Arabic كَبَاب (kabāb).

Noun

کباب • (kabāb) m (Hindi spelling कबाब)

1. kebab