skewer

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• UK: /ˈskjuː.ə/
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• US: /ˈskjuː.ɚ/
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• rhymes with -uːə(ɹ)
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• CMU ARPABET: S K Y UW1 ER0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From skew + -er.

From Middle English skeuier, skuer, likely a variant of Middle English *skever, *skiver (compare Modern English skiver), probably of North Germanic origin, compare Icelandic skífa (“to slice”), Norwegian skive, Swedish skiva, Swedish skifer (“a slate”).

119 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Armenian: շամփուր (šampʻur) — pin used to secure food during cooking
• Armenian: շիշ (šiš) — pin used to secure food during cooking
• Bashkir: шеш (şeş) — pin used to secure food during cooking
• Basque: txitxi-burruntzi — pin used to secure food during cooking
• Belarusian: шампу́р (šampúr) — pin used to secure food during cooking
• Belarusian: ражо́н (ražón) — pin used to secure food during cooking
• Belarusian: круця́к (krucják) — pin used to secure food during cooking
• Bulgarian: шиш (šiš) — pin used to secure food during cooking
• Catalan: broqueta — pin used to secure food during cooking
• Chinese Mandarin: 烤肉叉 (kǎoròuchā) — pin used to secure food during cooking
• Chinese Mandarin: 扦子 (qiānzi) — pin used to secure food during cooking
• Czech: špíz — pin used to secure food during cooking
• Dutch: spies — pin used to secure food during cooking
• Esperanto: rostostango — pin used to secure food during cooking
• Estonian: varras — pin used to secure food during cooking
• Finnish: varras — pin used to secure food during cooking
• Finnish: paistinvarras — pin used to secure food during cooking
• French: brochette — pin used to secure food during cooking
• French: broche — pin used to secure food during cooking
• Georgian: შამფური (šampuri) — pin used to secure food during cooking
• German: Spieß — pin used to secure food during cooking
• German: Spießchen — pin used to secure food during cooking
• Greek: σούβλα (soúvla) — pin used to secure food during cooking
• Ancient Greek: ὀβελός (obelós) — pin used to secure food during cooking
• Hebrew: שיפוד (shipud) — pin used to secure food during cooking
• Hungarian: nyárs — pin used to secure food during cooking
• Icelandic: spýta — pin used to secure food during cooking
• Irish: briogún — pin used to secure food during cooking
• Irish: scibhéar — pin used to secure food during cooking
• Italian: legnetto — pin used to secure food during cooking
• Japanese: 串 (kushi) — pin used to secure food during cooking
• Korean: 꼬치 (kkochi) — pin used to secure food during cooking
• Korean: 꼬챙이 (kkochaeng'i) — pin used to secure food during cooking
• Latvian: iesms — pin used to secure food during cooking
• Lithuanian: iešmas — pin used to secure food during cooking
• Macedonian: ра́жен (rážen) — pin used to secure food during cooking
• Māori: pūrou — pin used to secure food during cooking
• Māori: pūrau — pin used to secure food during cooking
• Māori: paoka — pin used to secure food during cooking
• Nogai: сис (sis) — pin used to secure food during cooking
• Norwegian Bokmål: spyd — pin used to secure food during cooking
• Norwegian Nynorsk: spyd — pin used to secure food during cooking
• Persian: سیخ (six) — pin used to secure food during cooking
• Polish: szpikulec — pin used to secure food during cooking
• Polish: rożen — pin used to secure food during cooking
• Portuguese: espeto — pin used to secure food during cooking
• Romanian: frigare — pin used to secure food during cooking
• Romanian: țepușă — pin used to secure food during cooking
• Russian: шампу́р (šampúr) — pin used to secure food during cooking
• Russian: ве́ртел (vértel) — pin used to secure food during cooking
• Scottish Gaelic: dealg — pin used to secure food during cooking
• Serbo-Croatian: ра́жањ — pin used to secure food during cooking
• Serbo-Croatian: rážanj — pin used to secure food during cooking
• Slovak: špíz — pin used to secure food during cooking
• Spanish: brocheta — pin used to secure food during cooking
• Spanish: fierrito — pin used to secure food during cooking
• Spanish: anticucho — pin used to secure food during cooking
• Spanish: pincho — pin used to secure food during cooking
• Spanish: chuzo — pin used to secure food during cooking
• Spanish: broqueta — pin used to secure food during cooking
• Spanish: brochet — pin used to secure food during cooking
• Spanish: brochette — pin used to secure food during cooking
• Spanish: espetón — pin used to secure food during cooking
• Swedish: spett — pin used to secure food during cooking
• Tagalog: pantuhog — pin used to secure food during cooking
• Thai: ตับ (dtàp) — pin used to secure food during cooking
• Turkish: şiş — pin used to secure food during cooking
• Ottoman Turkish: شیش (şiş) — pin used to secure food during cooking
• Ottoman Turkish: سیخ (sih) — pin used to secure food during cooking
• Ukrainian: роже́н (rožén) — pin used to secure food during cooking
• Ukrainian: шампу́р (šampúr) — pin used to secure food during cooking
• Uzbek: six — pin used to secure food during cooking
• Vietnamese: xiên — pin used to secure food during cooking
• Vietnamese: xiên nướng thịt — pin used to secure food during cooking
• Welsh: gwäell — pin used to secure food during cooking
• Welsh: gwaellen — pin used to secure food during cooking
• Bulgarian: вилица (vilica) — chess scenario
• Finnish: varras — chess scenario
• French: enfilade — chess scenario
• German: Spieß — chess scenario
• Italian: infilata — chess scenario
• Polish: szpila — chess scenario
• Portuguese: espeto — chess scenario
• Russian: ви́лка (vílka) — chess scenario
• Swedish: dolk — chess scenario
• Bulgarian: пронизвам (pronizvam) — to impale on a skewer
• Dutch: vastprikken met een vleespin — to impale on a skewer
• Dutch: aan het spit rijgen — to impale on a skewer
• Finnish: varrastaa — to impale on a skewer
• Finnish: seivästää — to impale on a skewer
• French: embrocher — to impale on a skewer
• Galician: espetar — to impale on a skewer
• Galician: espichar — to impale on a skewer
• German: aufspießen — to impale on a skewer
• Greek: σουβλίζω (souvlízo) — to impale on a skewer
• Greek: διατρυπώ (diatrypó) — to impale on a skewer
• Hungarian: nyársal — to impale on a skewer
• Hungarian: felnyársal — to impale on a skewer
• Hungarian: nyársra húz — to impale on a skewer
• Italian: impalare — to impale on a skewer
• Japanese: 串に刺す (kushi nisasu) — to impale on a skewer
• Japanese: 串刺しにする (kushizashi ni suru) — to impale on a skewer
• Kapampangan: akbak — to impale on a skewer
• Kapampangan: tungi — to impale on a skewer
• Korean: 꼬치에 꿰다 (kkochi-e kkweda) — to impale on a skewer
• Korean: 꼬챙이에 꿰다 (kkochaeng'i-e kkweda) — to impale on a skewer
• Māori: pūrou — to impale on a skewer
• Pohnpeian: doakoa — to impale on a skewer
• Portuguese: empalar — to impale on a skewer
• Russian: насаживать (nasaživatʹ) — to impale on a skewer
• Russian: пронзать (pronzatʹ) — to impale on a skewer
• Spanish: ensartar — to impale on a skewer
• Spanish: espetar — to impale on a skewer
• Tagalog: tumundok — to impale on a skewer
• Turkish: şişlemek — to impale on a skewer
• Ottoman Turkish: شیشلمك (şişlemek) — to impale on a skewer
• Finnish: varrastaa — chess: to attack a piece with a less valuable piece behind
• French: enfilade — chess: to attack a piece with a less valuable piece behind
• Russian: лине́йный уда́р (linéjnyj udár) — chess: to attack a piece with a less valuable piece behind