yakitori

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

• IPA^(key): /jækɪˈtɔəɹi/

yakitori (countable and uncountable, plural yakitori or yakitoris)

1. A Japanese shish kebab-type dish made with small pieces of chicken or other ingredients cooked on skewers, often marinated in soy sauce or seasoned with salt.
   • 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, p. 851:

     We should have the bazaars full of yakitori pitches and geishas in bamboo cages.

• kushiyaki

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

• IPA^(key): /ja.ki.to.ri/
• Hyphenation: ya‧ki‧to‧ri

yakitori (plural yakitori-yakitori, first-person possessive yakitoriku, second-person possessive yakitorimu, third-person possessive yakitorinya)

1. yakitori, 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.

• “yakitori” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

yakitori

1. Rōmaji transcription of やきとり