كباب

See also: کباب, کتاب, and كتاب

Arabic

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-Semitic *kabab- (“to burn, to roast”), whence also Akkadian 𒅗𒁀𒁍 (/⁠kabābu⁠/, “to burn”).

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

• Andalusian Arabic: [script needed] (al-kabāb)
  • → Latin: alchiebabat
• → Azerbaijani: kabab
  • → Lak: кавав (kawaw)
  • → Lezgi: кабаб (kabab)
• → English: kebab, kebap (partly via Urdu, Persian, and Turkish)
• → Georgian: ქაბაბი (kababi)
• → German: Kebab (partly via Turkish)
• → Kazakh: кәуап (käuap)
• → Kurdish: .

  Northern Kurdish: kebab, kivav

• → Kyrgyz: кебеп (kebep)
• → Middle Armenian: քաբաբ (kʻabab), քապապ (kʻapap)
  • Armenian: քաբաբ (kʻabab), քյաբաբ (kʻyabab), քէպապ (kʻēpap), քյա̈բաբ (kʻyäbab) (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
    • → Yazghulami: kabób
  • → Hindustani:
    • Hindi: कबाब (kabāb)
    • Urdu: کباب (kabāb)
• → 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 (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