Definition of shashlik in English:
shashlik
nounPlural shashliks ˈʃaʃlɪkˈSHäSHˌlik
(in Asia and eastern Europe) a mutton kebab.
Example sentencesExamples
- My enormous vegetable dish only cost 3.40 leva, while the shashlik was six leva and the spicy potatoes were 1.80 leva.
- But they also have an extensive variety of salads and typical Bulgarian cuisine, which sometimes requires theatrical input from the serving staff when it comes to the enormous shashliks.
- We ordered a pork shashlik, grilled zargan fish and grilled blue fish.
- The pork cutlets also looked good, although the shashlik I ordered was strangely cold.
- Millions of acres are burnt every year in this place because somebody has gone out to have a fire and cook their shashlik (meat kebab).
Origin
From Russian shashlyk, based on Turkish şiş 'spit, skewer'; compare with shish kebab.