shashlik
/ʃˈɑʃlɪk/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.34 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Men entered the room bearing skewers of tikas—kebabs or shashliki, we would call them—spitted chunks of lamb that had been roasted with onions and other seasoning."
- "Everyone went to the Pump Room where the children would be entertained by the Nubian Slaves with flaming skewers of shashlik, while their parents talked to Irving Kupcinet, the Eiffel Tower of Chicago columnists."
- "They swam and fished by day, they drank wine and grilled shashliki in the evenings, and sometimes they drove into Yalta to enjoy the night-life, but throughout it all Minka remained detached, like a convalescent."
- "Some, having lighted a fire on the ground, cook (some) food, roast (some) shashliki."
- "You may well have heard of some of the national dishes of the Soviet Union, such as Borsch (beetroot soup), Bliny (pancakes), Beef Stroganoff, Chicken Kiev and Shashliki (Georgian kebabs)."
- "The pork shashliki which they had marinated in a large glass jar all day were speared onto long metal skewers, and these were placed over the fire, straddling the large stones."
Etymology
Borrowed from Russian шашлы́к (šašlýk), from Crimean Tatar şışlıq / шишлик (şişlik, “something to be cooked on a skewer”), ultimately from Turkic; compare Turkish şaşlık/ şişlik. Doublet of chislic.
Word Breakdown
- Root: şışlıq, -