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Meat on a stick, dignified with grill marks and a Persian passport.
means Chunks of meat (and often vegetables) skewered and grilled or roasted — small pieces, maximum char.
from From Arabic 'kabāb' (roasted or grilled meat), which traveled through Persian/Urdu as 'kabāb' before English picked it up — with spelling variants like 'kebab' and 'kabob' reflecting the different routes it took through Turkish, Persian, and South Asian languages on its way to English menus.
- spelling chaos
- also kebab or kabab, same skewer, different alphabet
- origin
- root word means to burn or char
- soldier legend
- medieval soldiers allegedly grilled meat on swords
- not just meat
- shish kabob means skewer kabob, cubes required