barbecue

English

Marinated beef grilling on a barbecue.

A plate of barbecue (foreground) with sauce, beans and bread.

Alternative forms

• (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

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”.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɑːbɪˌkjuː/
• IPA^(key): /ˈbɑɹbɪˌkju/

• Audio (US):

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• Hyphenation: bar‧be‧cue

Noun

barbecue (countable and uncountable, plural barbecues)

1. A fireplace or pit for grilling food, typically used outdoors and traditionally employing hot charcoal as the heating medium.

   We cooked our food on the barbecue.

2. A meal or event highlighted by food cooked in such an apparatus.

   We're having a barbecue on Saturday, and you're invited.

3. 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.

4. (dated) A hog, ox, or other large animal roasted or broiled whole for a feast.
5. 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.

6. (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.

Synonyms

• (grill): braai (South African English), buccan, compare grill
• (event): braai (South African English), cookout

Derived terms

• barbecue sauce
• barbie
• BBQ

Related terms

• barbacoa

Translations

a fireplace for cooking food

• Maori: ahirore
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• Swedish: grill (sv) c

cooking instrument

• Afrikaans: braai (af)
• Amharic: ጥብስ (ṭəbs)
• Arabic: شِوَاء m (šiwāʔ), بَارْبِيكْيُو m (barbikyū)
• Armenian: խորոված (hy) (xorovac)
• Azerbaijani: barbekü
• Chamicuro: tsepe'ta
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 燒烤／烧烤 (zh) (shāokǎo), 烧烤 (zh) (shāokǎo)

• Czech: gril m
• Danish: barbecue
• Dutch: barbecue (nl), grill (nl)
• Finnish: grilli (fi)
• French: barbecue (fr) m
• Galician: asadeiro (gl) m
• Georgian: მწვადი (mc̣vadi)
• German: Grill (de) m, Barbecue (de), Grillen (de) n, Grillplatte f, Grillteller m
• Greek: ψησταριά (el) f (psistariá), σχάρα (el) f (schára)
• Haitian Creole: griyad
• Hungarian: grillsütő (hu)
• Ido: grililo (io)
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• Italian: fornacella f
• Japanese: バーベキュー (ja) (bābekyū), グリル (guriru)
• Korean: 삼겹살 (ko) (samgyeopsal), 바비큐 (ko) (babikyu)
• Maltese: barbikju m
• Maori: ahi mātiti, rorerore
• Navajo: bikááʼatʼeesí
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: grill (no) m

  Nynorsk: grill m

• Persian: باربیکیو
• Polish: grill (pl) m, ruszt (pl) m
• Portuguese: churrasqueira (pt) f
• Romanian: grătar (ro) n
• Russian: барбекю́ (ru) n (barbekjú), гриль (ru) m (grilʹ), шашлы́чница (ru) f (šašlýčnica)
• Spanish: barbacoa (es) f, parrilla (es) f, asador m
• Turkish: barbekü (tr)

meal

• Finnish: grilliateria
• Ido: grilo (io)
• Japanese: バーベキュー (ja) (bābekyū)
• Khmer: please add this translation if you can
• Korean: 바비큐 (ko) (babikyu)
• Lao: please add this translation if you can
• Norman: r'pas à la broche m
• Polish: grill (pl) m, grillowanie (pl) n
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• Portuguese: churrasco (pt) m
• Romanian: grătar (ro) n
• Russian: барбекю́ (ru) n (barbekjú)
• Spanish: barbacoa (es) f, parrillada (es) f
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Walloon: fornêye (wa) f, fornea (wa) m, griyeye
• Welsh: barbeciw m

Verb

1. To cook food on a barbecue; to smoke it over indirect heat from high-smoke fuels.
2. To grill.

Translations

to cook food on a barbecue — see also to cook food on a barbecue

• Arabic: شَوَى (šawā)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 燒烤／烧烤 (zh) (shāokǎo), 烧烤 (zh) (shāokǎo)

• Czech: grilovat
• Dutch: grillen (nl), barbecueën (nl), braaien (nl)
• Faroese: grilla
• Finnish: grillata (fi)
• German: grillen (de)
• Greek: ψήνω (el) (psíno)

  Ancient: ἀπανθρακίζω (apanthrakízō)

• Ido: grilar (io)
• Isan: please add this translation if you can
• Japanese: please add this translation if you can
• Korean: please add this translation if you can
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• Lao: please add this translation if you can
• Maori: rorerore
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: grille

  Nynorsk: grille

• Polish: grillować (pl)
• Portuguese: grelhar (pt)
• Russian: жа́рить (ru) (žáritʹ)
• Spanish: asar (es), rostizar (es)
• Swedish: grilla (sv)
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Welsh: barbeciwio

grill — see grill

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Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English barbecue.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɑrbəkju/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: bar‧be‧cue

Noun

barbecue m (plural barbecues, diminutive barbecuetje n)

1. barbecue

Derived terms

• barbecueën/barbecuen

Verb

barbecue

1. (deprecated template usage) first-person singular present indicative of barbecueën
2. (deprecated template usage) imperative of barbecueën
3. (deprecated template usage) first-person singular present indicative of barbecuen
4. (deprecated template usage) (archaic) singular present subjunctive of barbecuen
5. (deprecated template usage) imperative of barbecuen

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French

Etymology

Borrowed from English barbecue.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /baʁ.bə.ky/

• Audio:

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Noun

barbecue m (plural barbecues)

1. barbecue

Further reading

• “barbecue”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.