different between barbecue vs gril

English

Alternative forms

• (apparatus; event; meat): barbeque; bar-be-que, bar-b-que, bar-B-Q, bar-b-q (informal forms based on the abbreviation)
• (apparatus; event): barbie (Australia, NZ, UK, informal abbreviation)
• (event; meat): BBQ (informal abbreviation)
• (meat): 'cue, 'que, que (US, informal shortenings)

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish barbacoa, from Taíno barbakoa (“framework of sticks”), the raised wooden structure the natives used to either sleep on or cure meat. Originally “meal of roasted meat or fish”. Doublet of barbacoa.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?b??b??kju?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?b??b??kju/
• Hyphenation: bar?be?cue

Noun

barbecue (countable and uncountable, plural barbecues)

1. A fireplace or pit for grilling food, typically used outdoors and traditionally employing hot charcoal as the heating medium.

   Coordinate terms: grill, boucan

   We cooked our food on the barbecue.

2. A meal or event highlighted by food cooked in such an apparatus.

   We're having a barbecue on Saturday, and you're invited.

3. Meat, especially pork or beef, which has been cooked in such an apparatus (i.e. smoked over indirect heat from high-smoke fuels) and then chopped up or shredded.

   She ordered a plate of barbecue with a side of slaw.

4. (dated) A hog, ox, or other large animal roasted or broiled whole for a feast.
5. A floor on which coffee beans are sun-dried.
   • 2000, Andrew Gerald Gravette, Architectural Heritage of the Caribbean, page 227:

     Drying the coffee beans took place in a barbecue, basically a large, flat platform, where the pulped coffee beans could be laid out and turned as they dried. Barbecues were often walled around and raised above ground level.

6. (obsolete) A framework of sticks.
   • 1705, William Dampier, Voyages and Descriptions, Volume 2, London: James Knapton, “A Supplement of the Voyage Round the World,” Chapter 5, p. 90,^[1]

     We found no Houses of Entertainment on the Road, yet at every Village we came we got Houseroom, and a Barbacue of split Bambooes to sleep on.

Synonyms

• (grill): braai (South African English), buccan, compare grill
• (event): braai (South African English), cookout

Derived terms

• barbecue sauce
• barbie
• BBQ

Related terms

• barbacoa

Translations

Verb

barbecue (third-person singular simple present barbecues, present participle barbecuing or barbecueing, simple past and past participle barbecued)

1. To cook food on a barbecue; to smoke it over indirect heat from high-smoke fuels.
2. To grill.

Synonyms

• (grill, barbecue): braai (South African English)

Translations

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English barbecue.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b?rb?kju/
• Hyphenation: bar?be?cue

Noun

barbecue m (plural barbecues, diminutive barbecuetje n)

1. barbecue

Derived terms

• barbecueën/barbecuen

Verb

barbecue

1. first-person singular present indicative of barbecueën
2. imperative of barbecueën
3. first-person singular present indicative of barbecuen
4. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of barbecuen
5. imperative of barbecuen

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English barbecue.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ba?.b?.ky/

Noun

barbecue m (plural barbecues)

1. barbecue

Further reading

• “barbecue” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Polish

Etymology

From English barbecue, from Spanish barbacoa, from Taíno barbakoa (“framework of sticks”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bar?b?k.ju/

Noun

barbecue n (indeclinable)

1. barbecue (cooking instrument)

   Synonyms: ruszt, grill

2. barbecue (meal)

   Synonym: grill

3. barbecue sauce

Further reading

• barbecue in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• barbecue in Polish dictionaries at PWN

English

Etymology

From Middle English grille, from Old English gril (“harsh”), akin to German grell (“offending the ear or eye, shrill, dazzling”).

Adjective

gril (comparative more gril, superlative most gril)

1. (obsolete) harsh; hard; severe; stern; rough

Anagrams

• Girl, LIRG, girl

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [??r?l]

Noun

gril m

1. grill, barbecue

Related terms

• grilovat

Further reading

• gril in Kartotéka Novo?eského lexikálního archivu
• gril in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Dalmatian

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

gril

1. cricket

References

• Bartoli, Matteo Giulio (1906) Il Dalmatico: Resti di un’antica lingua romanza parlata da Veglia a Ragusa e sua collocazione nella Romània appenino-balcanica, Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, published 2000

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?r?l/
• Hyphenation: gril
• Rhymes: -?l

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Middle High German grille (“cricket”) (modern Grille). Perhaps the shift in sense is due to a conflation of crickets with earwigs, involving the popular myth of insects which crawl through the ears to lay eggs in the brain, altering a person's behaviour.

Noun

gril f or m (plural grillen, diminutive grilletje n)

1. caprice, whim, impulse

Etymology 2

Noun

gril m (plural grils)

1. Alternative form of grill

French

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??il/

Noun

gril m (plural grils)

1. grill (for cooking)

Derived terms

• griller

Related terms

• grille

Further reading

• “gril” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Norman

Etymology

From Old French greïl, graïl (“gridiron”), from graïlle (“grate, grating”), from Latin cr?t?cula (“gridiron”), diminutive of cr?tis (“hurdle, wickerwork”), from Proto-Indo-European *kor(?)t-, *kr?t- (“to weave, twist, wattle; wicker”).

Noun

gril m (plural grils)

1. (Jersey) grill

Slovak

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?ril]

Noun

gril m (genitive singular grilu, nominative plural grily, genitive plural grilov, declension pattern of dub)

1. grill, barbecue

Declension

Related terms

• grilova?

References

• gril in Slovak dictionaries at slovnik.juls.savba.sk

Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from French grille.

Noun

gril (definite accusative grili, plural griller)

1. grill (barbecue)

Declension

Synonyms

• ?zgara

References

• gril in Turkish dictionaries at Türk Dil Kurumu

Welsh

Etymology

Borrowed from English grill.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?r?l/

Noun

gril m (plural griliau)

1. grill, broiler

Derived terms

• grilio (“to grill, to broil”)

Mutation

Further reading

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present) , “gril”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies