The word shashlik entered English from which language?

The word shashlik entered English from Russian.

Russian шашлык became the route by which the term reached English, although the word itself has Turkic roots. It is connected with Crimean Tatar and related forms built around shish, the word for a skewer. In that sense, shashlik belongs to a larger family of skewered-meat terms used across Eurasia.

The food was already familiar in the Caucasus and Central Asia before becoming especially popular across the Russian Empire during the nineteenth century. It reached Moscow late in that century, then moved rapidly from restaurants into everyday urban food culture. By the early twentieth century, it was a recognizable restaurant and street-food dish.

English spelling varies, including shashlik and shashlick. The Russian route does not mean the dish originated in Russia; rather, Russian helped carry and standardize the name internationally. Shashlik is also commonly confused with shish kebab, but the terms overlap rather than identifying one rigid recipe. Meat choices vary by region, from lamb to pork, beef, chicken, and venison.