sharab

English

Alternative forms

• shrab

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Persian شراب (sharâb, “wine”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Arabic شَرَاب (šarāb, “wine, beverage”), from شَرَبَ (šaraba, “to drink”).

Noun

sharab (uncountable)

1. Wine, or other alcoholic drinks.
   • 2007, Michael Chabon, Gentlemen of the Road, Sceptre 2008, p. 49:

     In the meantime, the black giant had begun his own survey of the campground, where three nights earlier Hanukkah and his fellows had shared a roast goat and a looted cask of sharab […]

Anagrams

• Barash, Bashar, Rabhas, abrash, bahars