chawarma
French, noun/ʃa.waʁ.ma/
chawarma is spelled C-H-A-W-A-R-M-A (8 letters) and appears about once in every 29 million words in written French, the 172,049th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Chawarma is a French masculine noun meaning “alternative spelling of shawarma” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Variante de shawarma”.
What does chawarma mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinealternative spelling of shawarma
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Variante de shawarma.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of chawarma
- chawarmas plural
- chaouarma
- shawarma
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce chawarma?
- /ʃa.waʁ.ma/
- \ʃa.waʁ.ma\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to chawarma
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is chawarma in French?
chawarma appears about once in every 29 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).