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, Australia, New Zealand)

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ˈʃɜːbət/, X-SAMPA: /"S3:b@t/ or IPA: /ˈʃɜːbɪt/, X-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 (cmn) (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)
• Malay: serbat (ms)
• Marathi: सर्बत (mr) (sarbata)
• 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

• German: Brausepulver (de) n

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Albanian

Etymology

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

Noun

sherbet m

1. sugar water