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English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
- (apparatus; event; meat): barbeque; bar-be-que, bar-b-que, bar-B-Q, bar-b-q (informal forms based on the abbreviation)
- (apparatus; event): barbie (Australia, NZ, UK, informal abbreviation)
- (event; meat): BBQ (informal abbreviation)
- (meat): 'cue, 'que, que (US, informal shortenings)
Etymology[edit]
From mid-17th century. Borrowed from Spanish barbacoa, from Taíno barbakoa (“framework of sticks”), the raised wooden structure the natives used to either sleep on or cure meat. Originally “meal of roasted meat or fish”. Doublet of barbacoa.
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈbɑːbɪˌkjuː/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈbɑɹbɪˌkju/
Audio (US) (file) - Hyphenation: bar‧be‧cue
Noun[edit]
barbecue (countable and uncountable, plural barbecues)
- A fireplace or pit for grilling food, typically used outdoors and traditionally employing hot charcoal as the heating medium.
- A meal or event highlighted by food cooked in such an apparatus.
- We're having a barbecue on Saturday, and you're invited.
- Meat, especially pork or beef, which has been cooked in such an apparatus (i.e. smoked over indirect heat from high-smoke fuels) and then chopped up or shredded.
- She ordered a plate of barbecue with a side of slaw.
- (dated) A hog, ox, or other large animal roasted or broiled whole for a feast.
- A floor on which coffee beans are sun-dried.
- 2000, Andrew Gerald Gravette, Architectural Heritage of the Caribbean, page 227:
- Drying the coffee beans took place in a barbecue, basically a large, flat platform, where the pulped coffee beans could be laid out and turned as they dried. Barbecues were often walled around and raised above ground level.
- (obsolete) A framework of sticks.
- 1705, William Dampier, Voyages and Descriptions, Volume 2, London: James Knapton, “A Supplement of the Voyage Round the World,” Chapter 5, p. 90,[1]
- We found no Houses of Entertainment on the Road, yet at every Village we came we got Houseroom, and a Barbacue of split Bambooes to sleep on.
- 1705, William Dampier, Voyages and Descriptions, Volume 2, London: James Knapton, “A Supplement of the Voyage Round the World,” Chapter 5, p. 90,[1]
Synonyms[edit]
- (grill): braai (South African English), buccan, compare grill
- (event): braai (South African English), cookout
Derived terms[edit]
Related terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
a fireplace for cooking food
cooking instrument
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meal
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Verb[edit]
barbecue (third-person singular simple present barbecues, present participle barbecuing or barbecueing, simple past and past participle barbecued)
- To cook food on a barbecue; to smoke it over indirect heat from high-smoke fuels.
- To grill.
Synonyms[edit]
- (grill, barbecue): braai (South African English)
Translations[edit]
to cook food on a barbecue
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grill — see grill
Dutch[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from English barbecue.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
barbecue m (plural barbecues, diminutive barbecuetje n)
Derived terms[edit]
Verb[edit]
barbecue
- first-person singular present indicative of barbecueën
- imperative of barbecueën
- first-person singular present indicative of barbecuen
- (archaic) singular present subjunctive of barbecuen
- imperative of barbecuen
French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from English barbecue.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
barbecue m (plural barbecues)
- barbecue
- 2015 July 17, Monde[2]:
- Repéré par tous les réseaux de foodistas depuis son lancement, en 2011, le Braisenville a imposé son décor, censé évoquer la palette chromatique du barbecue (lustres orange braise, briques noir charbon, sol ciment gris cendre), et un vrai concept culinaire.
- (please add an English translation of this quote)
Further reading[edit]
- “barbecue”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Polish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Unadapted borrowing from English barbecue, from Spanish barbacoa, from Taíno barbakoa (“framework of sticks”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
barbecue n (indeclinable)
Further reading[edit]
- barbecue in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- barbecue in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Swedish[edit]
Noun[edit]
barbecue c
Declension[edit]
| Declension of barbecue | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Plural | |||
| Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
| Nominative | barbecue | barbecuen | barbecues | - |
| Genitive | barbecues | barbecuens | barbecues | - |
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