# kebab

> English word · Noun · IPA /kəˈbæb/ · frequency rank #27,896

## Definitions
1. A dish of pieces of meat, fish, or vegetables roasted on a skewer or spit, especially a doner kebab.
2. A hand-held dish consisting of pieces of meat roasted on an upright skewer mixed with fresh vegetables and sauces and rolled up in a round piece of unleavened bread.
3. A shish kebab or any other food on a skewer.
4. A restaurant that sells kebabs
5. The outward growing portions of a shish kebab structure.
6. A Muslim, usually of southern European, Middle Eastern, or North African descent.
7. The vulva.
8. A menu icon of three vertical dots.

## Etymology
From Arabic كَبَاب (kabāb), partly through Urdu, Persian and Turkish kebap. Doublet of cevapi. See the Arabic entry for more.

## Easily confused with
- **kerb** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/kebab-vs-kerb)

## Common misspellings (7)
`ekbab`, `kbeab`, `keabb`, `kebabb`, `kebba`, `kebbab`, `kkebab`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/kebab