yakitori

English

A dish of yakitori

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /jækɪˈtɔəɹi/

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Noun

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.
   • 1984, William Gibson, Neuromancer (Sprawl; book 1), New York, N.Y.: Ace Books, →ISBN, page 10:

     Friday night on Ninsei. He passed yakitori stands and massage parlors, a franchised coffee shop called Beautiful Girl, the electronic thunder of an arcade.

   • 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 851:

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

See also

• kushiyaki

Indonesian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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.

Further reading

• “yakitori” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Japanese

Romanization

yakitori

1. Rōmaji transcription of やきとり