English edit

 
A dish of yakitori

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Japanese 焼き鳥 (やきとり), from 焼き (yaki, grilled, toasted) + (tori, bird).

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /jækɪˈtɔəɹi/
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Noun edit

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.

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Etymology edit

Borrowed from Japanese 焼き鳥 (やきとり, yakitori), from 焼き (yaki, grilled, toasted) + (tori, bird).

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ja.ki.to.ri/
  • Hyphenation: ya‧ki‧to‧ri

Noun edit

yakitori (first-person possessive yakitoriku, second-person possessive yakitorimu, third-person possessive yakitorinya)

  1. yakitori, a Japanese shish kebab-type dish made with small pieces of chicken, fish, vegetables or beef which have been marinated in soy sauce and then cooked on skewers.

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Romanization edit

yakitori

  1. Rōmaji transcription of やきとり