کباب

Dari	کباب
Iranian Persian
Tajik	кабоб

Borrowed from Arabic كَبَاب (kabāb).

Readings
Classical reading?	kaḇāḇ
Dari reading?	kabāb
Iranian reading?	kabâb
Tajik reading?	kabob

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کباب • (kabâb) (plural کباب‌ها (kabâb-hâ))

1. kebab (roast meat dish)
2. (figurative) heart burning with emotion; heart being "roasted" with yearning or grief

   جگرم کباب شد.

   jegar-am kabâb šod.

   I felt terribly sad.

   (literally, “My liver became kebab.”)

   • c. 1390, Shams-ud-Dīn Muḥammad Ḥāfiẓ, “Ghazal 13”, in دیوان حافظ‎^[1]:

     لب و دندانْت را حقوق نمک
     هست بر جان و سینه‌هایِ کباب

     lab u dandân-t râ huqûq-i namak
     hast bar jân u sîna-hâ-yi kabâb

     Your lips and teeth owe rights of salt
     To the soul and chests of [our] sizzling hearts.

     (Classical Persian transliteration)

• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892) “کباب”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul

Borrowed from Classical Persian کباب (kabāb), from Arabic كَبَاب (kabāb).

کباب • (kabāb) m (Hindi spelling कबाब)

1. kebab