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shawarma

shawarma

1 3.7
A shop that sells the meat dish wrapped in flatbread to eat there or take away
  • noun
  • /ʃəˈwɑrmə/
: local de shawarma
  • You know, the Avengers discovered shawarma.

Examples

  • After the movie, we went to a nearby shawarma stall to enjoy a late-night snack.

  • Like, of course, there's a shawarma restaurant in the background during the battle.

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  • There's a shawarma joint about two blocks from here.

  • Let's grab some dinner at that shawarma shop on the corner that everyone raves about.

  • She works at a small shawarma restaurant that serves the best garlic sauce in the city.

Synonyms

restaurant
vsshawarma
∞ 1.0

A place where people pay to eat meals prepared for them

focuses on a small stall or shop selling mainly one type of food
takeaway
vsshawarma
  • UK
5 1.5

Food you buy to eat somewhere else

is the physical stall or shop that sells prepared food to customers
cookshack
vsshawarma
  • Informal
1 6.9

A small roadside stall that sells grilled and smoked food

sells one specific type of food rather than various grilled dishes

Surface Forms

shawarma singular
shawarmas plural

Etymology

Shawarma can also mean the shop that sells the dish, because people often use a food name for the place that sells it, just like saying 'the kebab' for a kebab shop.