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by nir 5223 days ago
The word "Kebab" describes a different dish in the Middle East and in Germany.
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All dishes are different around the world - spaghetti, sushi, pizza, hamburger, etc. Sometimes a dish is luxury in one country and casual food in the other. It always differs, even across regions of one country, regional influences, etc. It doesn't mean it's a different dish by definition.
No, literally - the middle-eastern "kebab" is called cevapcici in Europe (at least in Ausria/Germany), it's a totally different dish from dönner kebab.
Cevapcici is the southern Slav word for Kebab:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C4%86evapi#Etymology