doner kebab

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From Turkish döner kebap (with the second element respelled to match kebab), from döner (turning, rotating, revolving) + kebap (kebab) [1]

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doner kebab (countable and uncountable, plural doner kebabs)

  1. A Turkish dish in which meat (typically seasoned lamb or mutton, but alternatively chicken or perhaps beef) is grilled on a revolving vertical spit; when cooked, the meat is sliced off and served with fresh vegetables in pita or rolled in a piece of unleavened flatbread.

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  1. ^ John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “doner kebab”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.

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Noun[edit]

doner kebab m (plural doner kebabs)

  1. doner kebab