barbecue

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈbɑːbɪˌkjuː/
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• General-American: /ˈbɑɹbɪˌkju/
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• General-American: /ˈbɑɹbə-/
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• CMU ARPABET: B AA1 R B IH0 K Y UW2 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From mid-17th century. Borrowed from Spanish barbacoa, from Taíno barbakoa (“framework of sticks”), the raised wooden structure the natives used to either sleep on or cure meat. Originally “meal of roasted meat or fish”. Doublet of balbacua and barbacoa.

161 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: braaiplek — a fireplace for cooking food
• Arabic: مِشْوَاة (mišwāh) — a fireplace for cooking food
• Bulgarian: скара (skara) — a fireplace for cooking food
• Bulgarian: барбекю (barbekju) — a fireplace for cooking food
• Macedonian: скара (skara) — a fireplace for cooking food
• Māori: ahirore — a fireplace for cooking food
• Polish: grill — a fireplace for cooking food
• Russian: гриль (grilʹ) — a fireplace for cooking food
• Russian: барбекю́ (barbekjú) — a fireplace for cooking food
• Russian: шашлы́чница (šašlýčnica) — a fireplace for cooking food
• Russian: барбекю́шница (barbekjúšnica) — a fireplace for cooking food
• Russian: ра́шпер (rášper) — a fireplace for cooking food
• Sicilian: fucuni — a fireplace for cooking food
• Sicilian: luci — a fireplace for cooking food
• Sicilian: tannura — a fireplace for cooking food
• Swedish: grill — a fireplace for cooking food
• Thai: บาร์บีคิว — a fireplace for cooking food
• Turkish: barbekü — a fireplace for cooking food
• Turkish: mangal — a fireplace for cooking food
• Afrikaans: braai — cooking instrument
• Amharic: ጥብስ (ṭəbs) — cooking instrument
• Arabic: شِوَاء (šiwāʔ) — cooking instrument
• Arabic: بَارْبِيكْيُو (barbikyū) — cooking instrument
• Armenian: խորոված (xorovac) — cooking instrument
• Asturian: parrilla — cooking instrument
• Asturian: trébedes — cooking instrument
• Azerbaijani: barbekü — cooking instrument
• Belarusian: барбекю́ (barbjekjú) — cooking instrument
• Belarusian: грыль (hrylʹ) — cooking instrument
• Bulgarian: барбекю́ (barbekjú) — cooking instrument
• Bulgarian: скара (skara) — cooking instrument
• Chamicuro: tsepe'ta — cooking instrument
• Chinese Mandarin: 燒烤 /烧烤 (shāokǎo) — cooking instrument
• Cornish: barbakoa — cooking instrument
• Czech: gril — cooking instrument
• Danish: barbecue — cooking instrument
• Dutch: barbecue — cooking instrument
• Dutch: grill — cooking instrument
• Finnish: grilli — cooking instrument
• French: barbecue — cooking instrument
• Galician: asadeiro — cooking instrument
• Georgian: მწვადი (mc̣vadi) — cooking instrument
• German: Grill — cooking instrument
• German: Barbecue — cooking instrument
• German: Grillen — cooking instrument
• German: Grillplatte — cooking instrument
• German: Grillteller — cooking instrument
• Greek: ψησταριά (psistariá) — cooking instrument
• Greek: σχάρα (schára) — cooking instrument
• Haitian Creole: griyad — cooking instrument
• Hebrew: מנגל — cooking instrument
• Hungarian: grillsütő — cooking instrument
• Ido: grililo — cooking instrument
• Italian: fornacella — cooking instrument
• Japanese: バーベキュー (bābekyū) — cooking instrument
• Japanese: グリル (guriru) — cooking instrument
• Kazakh: кәуап (käuap) — cooking instrument
• Korean: 바비큐 (babikyu) — cooking instrument
• Korean: 그릴 (geuril) — cooking instrument
• Maltese: barbikju — cooking instrument
• Māori: ahi mātiti — cooking instrument
• Māori: rorerore — cooking instrument
• Navajo: bikááʼatʼeesí — cooking instrument
• Norwegian Bokmål: grill — cooking instrument
• Norwegian Nynorsk: grill — cooking instrument
• Persian: باربیکیو — cooking instrument
• Polish: grill — cooking instrument
• Polish: ruszt — cooking instrument
• Polish: barbecue — cooking instrument
• Portuguese: churrasqueira — cooking instrument
• Romanian: grătar — cooking instrument
• Russian: барбекю́ (barbekjú) — cooking instrument
• Russian: гриль (grilʹ) — cooking instrument
• Russian: шашлы́чница (šašlýčnica) — cooking instrument
• Sicilian: gradigghia — cooking instrument
• Sicilian: tannura — cooking instrument
• Spanish: barbacoa — cooking instrument
• Spanish: parrilla — cooking instrument
• Spanish: asador — cooking instrument
• Swedish: grill — cooking instrument
• Thai: บาร์บีคิว — cooking instrument
• Turkish: barbekü — cooking instrument
• Ukrainian: барбекю́ (barbekjú) — cooking instrument
• Ukrainian: гриль (hrylʹ) — cooking instrument
• Welsh: barbeciw — cooking instrument
• Afrikaans: braai — meal
• Western Apache: łeʼiibéézhihí — meal
• Arabic: مَشْوِيَّات (mašwiyyāt) — meal
• Asturian: parrillada — meal
• Belarusian: барбекю́ (barbjekjú) — meal
• Bulgarian: барбекю́ (barbekjú) — meal
• Bulgarian: ска́ра (skára) — meal
• Finnish: grilliateria — meal
• French: barbecue — meal
• French: grillades — meal
• French: barbeuc — meal
• German: Grillparty — meal
• Hungarian: sütögetés — meal
• Ido: grilo — meal
• Indonesian: barbeku — meal
• Indonesian: barbekyu — meal
• Japanese: バーベキュー (bābekyū) — meal
• Japanese: 焼肉 (yakiniku) — meal
• Korean: 바비큐 (babikyu) — meal
• Macedonian: скара (skara) — meal
• Norman: r'pas à la broche — meal
• Polish: grill — meal
• Polish: grillowanie — meal
• Polish: barbecue — meal
• Portuguese: churrasco — meal
• Romanian: grătar — meal
• Russian: барбекю́ (barbekjú) — meal
• Russian: жарко́е (žarkóje) — meal
• Russian: гриль (grilʹ) — meal
• Russian: шашлыки́ (šašlykí) — meal
• Serbo-Croatian: roštilj — meal
• Sicilian: arrustuta — meal
• Sicilian: arrusti e mancia — meal
• Spanish: barbacoa — meal
• Spanish: parrillada — meal
• Spanish: asado — meal
• Swedish: grillfest — meal
• Swedish: barbecue — meal
• Swedish: grillmat — meal
• Thai: บาร์บีคิว — meal
• Turkish: barbekü — meal
• Ottoman Turkish: اسقره (ıskara) — meal
• Ukrainian: барбекю́ (barbekjú) — meal
• Vietnamese: thịt nướng hun khói — meal
• Walloon: fornêye — meal
• Walloon: fornea — meal
• Walloon: griyeye — meal
• Welsh: barbeciw — meal
• Afrikaans: braai — to cook food on a barbecue
• Arabic: شَوَى (šawā) — to cook food on a barbecue
• Bulgarian: пека на скара (peka na skara) — to cook food on a barbecue
• Bulgarian: гриловам (grilovam) — to cook food on a barbecue
• Chinese Mandarin: 燒烤 /烧烤 (shāokǎo) — to cook food on a barbecue
• Czech: grilovat — to cook food on a barbecue
• Dutch: grillen — to cook food on a barbecue
• Dutch: barbecueën — to cook food on a barbecue
• Dutch: braaien — to cook food on a barbecue
• Faroese: grilla — to cook food on a barbecue
• Finnish: grillata — to cook food on a barbecue
• French: griller — to cook food on a barbecue
• German: grillen — to cook food on a barbecue
• Greek: ψήνω (psíno) — to cook food on a barbecue
• Ancient Greek: ἀπανθρακίζω (apanthrakízō) — to cook food on a barbecue
• Ido: grilar — to cook food on a barbecue
• Italian: grigliare — to cook food on a barbecue
• Māori: rorerore — to cook food on a barbecue
• Norwegian Bokmål: grille — to cook food on a barbecue
• Norwegian Nynorsk: grille — to cook food on a barbecue
• Polish: grillować — to cook food on a barbecue
• Portuguese: grelhar — to cook food on a barbecue
• Russian: жа́рить (žáritʹ) — to cook food on a barbecue
• Spanish: asar — to cook food on a barbecue
• Spanish: rostizar — to cook food on a barbecue
• Swedish: grilla — to cook food on a barbecue
• Turkish: mangal yapmak — to cook food on a barbecue
• Welsh: barbeciwio — to cook food on a barbecue