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cevirme
Turkish · ottoman
"turning"
turning, from cevirmek (to turn), describing meat roasted on a turning spit
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shawarma
Levantine Arabic · 1900s
"meat sliced from a rotating spit"
adapted into Arabic for meat sliced from a vertical rotating spit
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shawarma
English · 1900s
"a dish of spit-roasted meat sliced and served in flatbread"
adopted directly for the spit-roasted wrapped meat dish
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