shawarma

American  

[shuh-wawr-muh] / ʃəˈwɔr mə /

Also shwarma

noun

1. (in Middle Eastern cuisine)

   1. roasted meat, as lamb or beef, cooked on a spit.

   2. a dish consisting of this meat, served wrapped in pita bread with tahini or hummus.

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Etymology

Origin of shawarma

1950–55; < Levantine Arabic shāwurma, shāwirma, from Turkish çevirme “turn, rotation, meat roasted on a spit,” from çevirmek “to turn, rotate”

Example Sentences

The man looked down at the moldering half shawarma.

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The man clearly wasn’t going to be able to eat the shawarma, and Boaz promising it to him wasn’t going to get him to disappear.

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They wanted something, whether it was a word with their beloved, a missing limb, or a shawarma.

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Ghost shawarma wasn’t a thing.

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He slid the ring back on, now that it didn’t burn cold, if only because he didn’t know what to do with it otherwise, and remembering the way the shawarma ghost had looked at it, figured they might actually listen if he wore it.

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