sorbet

See also: Sorbet and sörbet

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French sorbet, from Old Italian sorbetto, from Ottoman Turkish شربت (şerbet), from Arabic شَرْبَة (šarba, “drink”).

Doublet of sherbet and sharbat, related to syrup.

Pronunciation

• (Canada, General American) IPA^(key): /sɔɹˈbeɪ/

• Audio (Southern England)

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• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈsɔːbeɪ/
• Rhymes: -eɪ, -ɔːbeɪ

Noun

sorbet (countable and uncountable, plural sorbets)

1. Frozen fruit juice, sometimes mixed with egg whites, eaten as dessert or between courses of a meal.

   After dinner we had an orange sorbet that was very refreshing.

Synonyms

• ice
• Italian ice

Translations

frozen fruit juice

• Azerbaijani: şərbət (az)
• Arabic: شَرْبَات مُثَلَّج m (šarbāt muṯallaj)
• Bulgarian: шербе́т m (šerbét), сорбе́ n (sorbé)
• Catalan: sorbet (ca) m, xarrup (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 雪葩 (zh) (xuěpā), 雪芭 (zh) (xuěbā), 雪寶／雪宝 (xuěbǎo)

• Finnish: sorbetti (fi)
• French: sorbet (fr) m
• German: Sorbet (de) n
• Greek: σορμπέ (el) n (sormpé)
• Italian: sorbetto (it) m
• Japanese: シャーベット (ja) (shābetto)
• Kannada: ಸಾರ್ಬೆ (sārbe)
• Korean: 셔벗 (ko) (syeobeot), 소르베 (soreube)
• Malayalam: സോർബെറ്റ് (sōṟbeṟṟŭ)
• Persian: سربی (fa)
• Polish: sorbet (pl) m
• Portuguese: sorvete (pt) m (Portugal)
• Swedish: sorbet (sv) c
• Thai: ซอร์เบ
• Turkish: sorbet (tr)

See also

• sherbet

Anagrams

• Boster, Stober, Tobers, besort, borest, strobe, tobers

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɔʁ.bɛ/

• Audio

  (file)

Noun

sorbet m (plural sorbets)

1. sorbet, sherbet

Derived terms

• sorbetière

Further reading

• “sorbet”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Latin

Verb

sorbet

1. third-person singular present active indicative of sorbeō

Lombard

Alternative forms

• sorbètt (Classical Milanese Orthography)

Pronunciation

• (Milanese) IPA^(key): /surˈbɛt/

Noun

sorbet m

1. sorbet, sherbet, gelato

Derived terms

• sorbeter, sorbetera

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from French sorbet, from Middle French, from Old Italian sorbetto, from Ottoman Turkish شربت (şerbet), from Persian شربت (šarbat), from Arabic شَرْبَة (šarba).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɔr.bɛt/
• Rhymes: -ɔrbɛt
• Syllabification: sor‧bet

Noun

sorbet m inan

1. sorbet, sherbet (frozen fruit juice)

Declension

Declension of sorbet

	singular	plural
nominative	sorbet	sorbety
genitive	sorbetu	sorbetów
dative	sorbetowi	sorbetom
accusative	sorbet	sorbety
instrumental	sorbetem	sorbetami
locative	sorbecie	sorbetach
vocative	sorbecie	sorbety

Derived terms

adjective

• sorbetowy

 

Further reading

• sorbet in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• sorbet in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French sorbet. Doublet of sorvete.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /soʁˈbe/ [soɦˈbe]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /soʁˈbe/ [soɦˈbe]
  • (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /soɾˈbe/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /soʁˈbe/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /soɻˈbe/

Noun

sorbet m (uncountable)

1. sorbet (frozen fruit juice)

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French sorbet.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sorˈbet/

Noun

sorbet n (plural sorbete or sorbeturi)

1. sorbet

Declension

Declension of sorbet

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) sorbet	sorbetul	(niște) sorbete	sorbetele
genitive/dative	(unui) sorbet	sorbetului	(unor) sorbete	sorbetelor
vocative	sorbetule		sorbetelor

Declension of sorbet

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) sorbet	sorbetul	(niște) sorbeturi	sorbeturile
genitive/dative	(unui) sorbet	sorbetului	(unor) sorbeturi	sorbeturilor
vocative	sorbetule		sorbeturilor

Further reading

• sorbet in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)