sherbet

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Etymology

Turkish şerbet, from Persian شربت (šarbat), from Arabic شربة (shárba).

Cognate to sorbet, related to syrup.

Alternative forms

• sherbert (US only)

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ˈʃɜːbət/, SAMPA: /"S3:b@t/ or IPA: /ˈʃɜːbɪt/, SAMPA: /"S3:bIt/
• (US) IPA: /ˈʃɝːbɚt/, /ˈʃɝːbət/

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Noun

sherbet (plural sherbets)

1. A food of frozen fruit juice with a dairy product such as milk added; a sorbet with dairy ingredients.
2. A powder made of bicarbonate of soda, sugar and flavourings, intended to be eaten alone or mixed with water to make a drink.

Derived terms

• sherbet dabs
• sherbet fountain

Translations

frozen fruit juice

Arabic: شربة (ar) (shárba) f. Bulgarian: сорбе (bg) (sorbé) n., шербет (bg) (šerbét) m. Chinese: Mandarin: 果子露 (cmn) (guǒzilù), 冰果子露 (cmn) (bīngguǒzilù), 雪葩 (zh) (xuěpā) Esperanto: ŝorbeto (eo) Finnish: sorbetti (fi) French: sorbet (fr) German: Sorbet (de) n., (dated) Scherbet (de) n. Hindi: शर्बत (hi) (śarbat) Italian: granita (it) f., sorbetto (it) m.

Japanese: シャーベット (ja) (shābetto) Kazakh: шербет (kk) (şerbet) Korean: 셔벗 (ko) (syeobeot) Persian: شربت (fa) (šarbat) Russian: шербет (ru) (šerbét) m. Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: шербе (sh) n., шербет (sh) m. Roman: šerbe (sh) n., šerbet (sh) m. Turkish: şerbet (tr) Urdu: شربت (ur) (śarbat)

powder

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Albanian

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish شربت (şerbet), from Arabic شربة (šarba).

Noun

sherbet m.

1. sugar water