sherbet
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sherbet
- /ˈʃɜː.bət/ UK
- /ˈʃɜː.bɪt/ UK
- /ˈʃɝ.bət/ US
- /ˈʃɝ.bɪt/ US
- /ˈʃɝ.bɚt/ US, nonstandard
Rhymes with (nonstandard) -ɜː(ɹ)bə(ɹ)t
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish شربت (şerbet), borrowed from Classical Persian شَرْبَت (šarbat), borrowed from Arabic شَرْبَة (šarba), from شَرِبَ (šariba).
Doublet of sorbet and sharbat, related to syrup.
noun sherbets · sherbert
- A dessert of frozen fruit juice with a dairy product such as milk added; a sorbet with dairy ingredients. Fay Li clicks her fingers, and the dessert trolley is already on its way. “Now, the lemon-and-melon sherbet, very low in calories, it cleanses the palate, ideal before coffee. [...]”
- An effervescent powder made of bicarbonate of soda, sugar and flavourings, intended to be eaten alone or mixed with water to make a drink.
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A traditional West and South Asian sweet drink prepared from fruits or flower petals.
Directly they were trotted off in their little pea-green and gilt carriage, guardian negress and all, I went into the shop, about which I had all this time been loafingly prowling, and called, clapping my hands, for some violet sherbet, […]
Similar: sharbat
- An alcoholic drink, especially beer. All the dealers would steam into his cabin for a few sherbets after work, and to listen to his bollocks.
Translations
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noun frozen fruit juice
| Español | sorbete |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 셔벗 syeobeot, 샤베트 syabeteu |
| 日本語 | シャーベット shābetto |
| 中文 | 果子露 guǒzilù, 冰果子露 bīngguǒzilù, 雪葩 xuěpā |
| हिन्दी | शर्बत śarbat |
| Kiswahili | sharubati |
| Português | sorvete, sorbet |
| Français | sorbet, sorbet laitier |
| Deutsch | Sorbet, Scherbet, Fruchteis |
| Italiano | sorbetto, granita |
| Русский | шербе́т šerbét |
| العربية | شَرْبَات šarbāt |
noun powder
| Español | polvo acidulado |
|---|---|
| Deutsch | Brausepulver |
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title = {sherbet},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
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