Shish kebab

Shish kebab (Turkish: şiş kebap; Persian/Mazandarani: شیش کباب, shish kebab) or Seekh kebab (Urdu: سیخ کباب‎) is a popular meal of skewered and grilled cubes of meat. The word kebab denotes a wide variety of different grilled meat dishes. Shish kebab is popular in the whole of Asia. It is similar to a dish called shashlik, which is found in the Caucasus region.

It is generally made of lamb (kuzu şiş) but there are also versions with beef or veal (dana şiş), swordfish (kılıç şiş) and chicken meat (tavuk şiş or şiş tavuk). In Turkey, shish kebab and the vegetables served with it are grilled separately, normally not on the same skewer.

Shish kebab is an English rendering of Turkish: şiş a skewer. comes from Persian which may in turn have been derived from old Akkadian language, and "kbabā/כבבא" in Aramaic.كَبَاب (kabāb), which partially spread around the world through Arabic and Turkish. According to Sevan Nişanyan, an etymologist of the Turkish language, the word kebab is derived from the Persian word "kabab" meaning "fry". The word was first mentioned in a Turkish script of Kyssa-i Yusuf in 1377, which is the oldest known Turkish source where kebab is mentioned as a food. However, he emphasizes that the word has the equivalent meaning of "frying/burning" with "kabābu" in the old Akkadian language, and "kbabā/כבבא" in Aramaic. The American Heritage Dictionary also gives a probable East Semitic root origin with the meaning of "burn", "char", or "roast", from the Aramaic and Akkadian. These words point to an origin in the prehistoric Proto-Afroasiatic language: *kab-, to burn or roast.

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