jerez

See also: Jerez

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʒe.ʁɛs/, /kse.ʁɛs/, /xe.ʁɛs/

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Noun

jerez m (uncountable)

1. Alternative spelling of xérès

Further reading

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

Spanish

Etymology

From the toponym Jerez, in Cádiz, Spain, where it was created.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /xeˈɾeθ/ [xeˈɾeθ]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /xeˈɾes/ [xeˈɾes]
• (Spain) Rhymes: -eθ
• (Latin America) Rhymes: -es
• Syllabification: je‧rez

Noun

jerez m (plural jereces)

1. sherry

Descendants

• → Asturian: xerez
• → Catalan: xerès
• → English: sherris
  • ⇒ English: sherry
    • → Czech: šery, sherry
    • → German: Sherry
    • → Finnish: sherry
    • → French: sherry
    • → Italian: sherry
    • → Japanese: シェリー (sherī)
    • → Polish: sherry
    • → Serbo-Croatian:

      Latin script: šeri

      Cyrillic script: шери

    • → Yiddish: שערי (sheri)
• → French: xérès, jerez
• → Portuguese: xerez
• → Russian: херес (xeres)
• → Tagalog: heres

Further reading

• “jerez”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014