Could you cook a skewer for me, please?
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Skewer
//ˈskjuː.ɚ//
Synonyms for "skewer" (109 found)
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9 entriesTranslations
116 translations across 51 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- ὀβελός noun (pin used to secure food during cooking)
Armenian
2 entries- շամփուր noun (pin used to secure food during cooking)
- շիշ noun (pin used to secure food during cooking)
Bashkir
1 entries- шеш noun (pin used to secure food during cooking)
Basque
1 entries- txitxi-burruntzi noun (pin used to secure food during cooking)
Belarusian
3 entries- круця́к noun (pin used to secure food during cooking)
- ражо́н noun (pin used to secure food during cooking)
- шампу́р noun (pin used to secure food during cooking)
Bulgarian
3 entries- вилица noun (chess scenario)
- шиш noun (pin used to secure food during cooking)
- пронизвам verb (to impale on a skewer)
Catalan
1 entries- broqueta noun (pin used to secure food during cooking)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 扦子 noun (pin used to secure food during cooking)
- 烤肉叉 noun (pin used to secure food during cooking)
Czech
1 entries- špíz noun (pin used to secure food during cooking)
Dutch
3 entries- spies noun (pin used to secure food during cooking)
- aan het spit rijgen verb (to impale on a skewer)
- vastprikken met een vleespin verb (to impale on a skewer)
Esperanto
1 entries- rostostango noun (pin used to secure food during cooking)
Estonian
1 entries- varras noun (pin used to secure food during cooking)
Finnish
4 entries- paistinvarras noun (pin used to secure food during cooking)
- varras noun (pin used to secure food during cooking)
- varras noun (chess scenario)
- seivästää verb (to impale on a skewer)
French
4 entries- broche noun (pin used to secure food during cooking)
- brochette noun (pin used to secure food during cooking)
- enfilade noun (chess scenario)
- embrocher verb (to impale on a skewer)
Galician
2 entries- espetar verb (to impale on a skewer)
- espichar verb (to impale on a skewer)
Georgian
1 entries- შამფური noun (pin used to secure food during cooking)
German
4 entries- Spieß noun (pin used to secure food during cooking)
- Spieß noun (chess scenario)
- Spießchen noun (pin used to secure food during cooking)
- aufspießen verb (to impale on a skewer)
Greek
3 entries- σούβλα noun (pin used to secure food during cooking)
- διατρυπώ verb (to impale on a skewer)
- σουβλίζω verb (to impale on a skewer)
Hebrew
1 entries- שיפוד noun (pin used to secure food during cooking)
Hungarian
4 entries- nyárs noun (pin used to secure food during cooking)
- felnyársal verb (to impale on a skewer)
- nyársal verb (to impale on a skewer)
- nyársra húz verb (to impale on a skewer)
Icelandic
1 entries- spýta noun (pin used to secure food during cooking)
Irish
2 entries- briogún noun (pin used to secure food during cooking)
- scibhéar noun (pin used to secure food during cooking)
Italian
2 entries- legnetto noun (pin used to secure food during cooking)
- impalare verb (to impale on a skewer)
Japanese
3 entries- 串 noun (pin used to secure food during cooking)
- 串に刺す verb (to impale on a skewer)
- 串刺しにする verb (to impale on a skewer)
Kapampangan
2 entries- akbak verb (to impale on a skewer)
- tungi verb (to impale on a skewer)
Korean
4 entries- 꼬챙이 noun (pin used to secure food during cooking)
- 꼬치 noun (pin used to secure food during cooking)
- 꼬챙이에 꿰다 verb (to impale on a skewer)
- 꼬치에 꿰다 verb (to impale on a skewer)
Latvian
1 entries- iesms noun (pin used to secure food during cooking)
Lithuanian
1 entries- iešmas noun (pin used to secure food during cooking)
Macedonian
1 entries- ра́жен noun (pin used to secure food during cooking)
Māori
4 entries- paoka noun (pin used to secure food during cooking)
- pūrau noun (pin used to secure food during cooking)
- pūrou noun (pin used to secure food during cooking)
- pūrou verb (to impale on a skewer)
Nogai
1 entries- сис noun (pin used to secure food during cooking)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- spyd noun (pin used to secure food during cooking)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- spyd noun (pin used to secure food during cooking)
Ottoman Turkish
3 entries- سیخ noun (pin used to secure food during cooking)
- شیش noun (pin used to secure food during cooking)
- شیشلمك verb (to impale on a skewer)
Persian
1 entries- سیخ noun (pin used to secure food during cooking)
Polish
2 entries- rożen noun (pin used to secure food during cooking)
- szpikulec noun (pin used to secure food during cooking)
Portuguese
3 entries- espeto noun (pin used to secure food during cooking)
- espeto noun (chess scenario)
- empalar verb (to impale on a skewer)
Romanian
2 entries- frigare noun (pin used to secure food during cooking)
- țepușă noun (pin used to secure food during cooking)
Russian
4 entries- ве́ртел noun (pin used to secure food during cooking)
- ви́лка noun (chess scenario)
- шампу́р noun (pin used to secure food during cooking)
- лине́йный уда́р verb (chess: to attack a piece with a less valuable piece behind)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- dealg noun (pin used to secure food during cooking)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- rážanj noun (pin used to secure food during cooking)
- ра́жањ noun (pin used to secure food during cooking)
Slovak
1 entries- špíz noun (pin used to secure food during cooking)
Spanish
4 entries- anticucho noun (pin used to secure food during cooking)
- brochet noun (pin used to secure food during cooking)
- brocheta noun (pin used to secure food during cooking)
- brochette noun (pin used to secure food during cooking)
Swedish
2 entries- dolk noun (chess scenario)
- spett noun (pin used to secure food during cooking)
Tagalog
2 entries- pantuhog noun (pin used to secure food during cooking)
- tumundok verb (to impale on a skewer)
Thai
1 entries- ตับ noun (pin used to secure food during cooking)
Turkish
2 entries- şiş noun (pin used to secure food during cooking)
- şişlemek verb (to impale on a skewer)
Ukrainian
2 entries- роже́н noun (pin used to secure food during cooking)
- шампу́р noun (pin used to secure food during cooking)
Uzbek
1 entries- six noun (pin used to secure food during cooking)
Vietnamese
2 entries- xiên noun (pin used to secure food during cooking)
- xiên nướng thịt noun (pin used to secure food during cooking)
Welsh
2 entries- gwaellen noun (pin used to secure food during cooking)
- gwäell noun (pin used to secure food during cooking)
Sample sentences
7 total sentences available.
You know, the ones where you skewer some marshmallows and roast them. I don't know what they're called but they're really good. Let's try roasting some at my place sometime, too.
Source: tatoeba (1487824)
A skewer is called a tactical move whereby two pieces that are in the same line (row, column or diagonal) are simultaneously attacked, so that the first, when moving, dodging the attack, allows the capture of the other one.
Source: tatoeba (10283426)
Larissa, 107 miles from Salonica, is reached at 10.33, and there is a halt of 17 min. while vendors of oranges, cheese, meat on skewers, sweetmeats, and Turkish coffee do a brisk trade.
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