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shawarma

shawarma

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Spiced meat cooked on a vertical spit served in flatbread with sauce
  • noun
  • /ʃəˈwɑrmə/
: shawarma
  • Sumac also appears in the lamb shawarma ($13.95), which is slow-cooked on a rotisserie.
  • chicken shawarma
  • shawarma sandwich

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Examples

  • Shawarma is good enough for the Avengers; it's good enough for America!

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  • Shawarma is like the Middle Eastern equivalent of the Greek gyros.

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  • I had shawarma for dinner.

    Nightmare Sisters (1988)

  • By the way, Shawarma is amazing and I will keep eating it!

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  • Have you ever tried shawarma?

    The Avengers (2012)

  • At this Lebanese cafe, we'd discover shawarma.

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  • Bring on shawarma, hummus, pita, tabouli!

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  • Don't miss the chicken kebab sandwich, lamb shawarma, and mutabbak plate.

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  • Actually, falafel, hummus, and shawarma do not come from Arabia; they come from the Levant, Mesopotamia, and Anatolia.

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  • I enjoyed a delicious chicken shawarma wrapped in warm pita bread with fresh vegetables.

Surface Forms

shawarma singular
shawarmas plural

Etymology

Shawarma comes from a Turkish root çevir- meaning 'to turn'. The meat is cooked on a large spit that keeps turning, and that turning is exactly why the name fits the sliced, spiced meat wrapped in bread.