Etymology

cevapi

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Today it means: A Balkan food dish of minced meat. Full definition →

Serbo-Croatian ćevapi ← Ottoman Turkish كباب ← Arabic كَبَاب
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The story

  1. Persian · derived fromکباب“fried meat”
  2. Arabic · derived fromكَبَاب
  3. Ottoman Turkish · derived fromكباب
  4. Serbo-Croatian · borrowed fromćevapi
  5. English todaycevapi

Borrowed from Serbo-Croatian ćevapi / ћевапи, from Ottoman Turkish كباب (kebâp), from Arabic كَبَاب (kabāb) or Persian کباب (kabâb, “fried meat”). Doublet of kebab.

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