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kebab: Proto-Semitic → Arabic → Indonesian · Lexodus

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kebab

From Arabic كَبَاب (kabāb), ultimately from Proto-Semitic *kabab- (“to burn, to roast”).

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This journey was extracted automatically from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) and hasn't been checked by a person yet. Dates marked “c.” are estimated from each language's period, and every hop is graded at best “probable”.

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Wiktionary: kebab (CC BY-SA 4.0), via Wiktextract / kaikki.org

c. 3500 BCEProto-Semitic

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c. 3500 BCE
c. 750 CE
c. 1900

Hops are evenly spaced; labels show the year each form is first attested.