Kebab vs. Gyro — What's the Difference?

Kebabs are various cooked meat dishes with their origins in Middle Eastern cuisine. Numerous variants are popular around the world.

A gyroscope.

A dish of pieces of meat, fish, or vegetables roasted or grilled on a skewer or spit.

A gyrocompass.

Shish kebab.

A gyroscope.

(British) A dish of pieces of meat, fish, or vegetables roasted on a skewer or spit, especially a doner kebab.

A gyrocompass.

(AU) A hand-held dish consisting of pieces of meat roasted on an upright skewer mixed with fresh vegetables and sauces and rolled up in a round piece of unleavened bread.

An autogyro.

(US) A shish kebab or any other food on a skewer.

(bicycle parts) detangler.

A restaurant that sells kebabs

A style of Greek sandwich commonly filled with grilled meat, tomato, onions, and tzatziki sauce.

(chemistry) The outward growing portions of a shish kebab structure.

A Greek sandwich: sliced roast lamb with onion and tomato stuffed into pita bread

A Muslim, usually of southern European, Middle Eastern, or North African descent.

Rotating mechanism in the form of a universally mounted spinning wheel that offers resistance to turns in any direction

The vulva.

(GUI) menu icon of three vertical dots

(transitive) To roast in the style of a kebab

To stab or skewer

See kabab and kabob.

Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables