yakitori

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese 焼き鳥 (やきとり), from 焼き (yaki, “grilled, toasted”) + 鳥 (tori, “bird”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /jækɪˈtɔəɹi/

Noun

yakitori (countable and uncountable, plural yakitori or yakitoris)

  1. A Japanese shish kebab-type dish made with small pieces of chicken, fish, vegetables or beef which have been marinated in soy sauce and then cooked on skewers.
    • 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, p. 851:
      We should have the bazaars full of yakitori pitches and geishas in bamboo cages.

Japanese

Romanization

yakitori

  1. Rōmaji transcription of やきとり
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