syrup

English

Alternative forms

• sirop, sirup (both obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English sirup, from Old French sirop, from Medieval Latin siruppus, syrupus, from Arabic شَرَاب‎ (šarāb, “a drink, beverage, wine, coffee, syrup”), from شَرِبَ‎ (šariba, “to drink”). Related to sorbet, sherbet. Compare French sirop, Italian siroppo, sciroppo, Spanish jarabe, jarope, Portuguese xarope, and Dutch siroop and stroop.

The first known use of the spelling sirup was in the 14th century.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈsɪɹəp/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈsɪɹəp/, /ˈsiː.ɹəp/, /ˈsɝ.əp/, /sʲɝ.ʌp/

• Audio (US)

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Noun

syrup (countable and uncountable, plural syrups)

1. Any thick liquid that is added to or poured over food as a flavouring and has a high sugar content.

   maple syrup

   pancake syrup

   peaches in syrup

   cough syrup

2. Any viscous liquid.

   rose syrup = rosewater

3. (Cockney rhyming slang, shortened from "syrup of figs") A wig.

Derived terms

Derived terms

• glucose syrup
• golden syrup
• maple syrup
• palm syrup

• simple syrup
• sizzurp
• syrup of figs
• syrupy

Translations

liquid

• Afrikaans: stroop
• Albanian: shurup (sq) m
• Arabic: شَرَاب‎ m (šarāb)

  Egyptian Arabic: شربات‎ m (šarbat)

• Armenian: մրգահյութ (hy) (mrgahyutʿ)
• Belarusian: сіро́п m (siróp)
• Bulgarian: сиро́п m (siróp)
• Catalan: xarop m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 糖漿 (zh), 糖浆 (zh) (tángjiāng), 果子露 (zh) (guǒzilù)

• Czech: sirup (cs) m
• Danish: sirup
• Dutch: siroop (nl) m
• Esperanto: siropo
• Estonian: siirup
• Faroese: siropur m
• Finnish: siirappi (fi), sokeriliemi
• French: sirop (fr) m
• Georgian: სიროფი (siropi)
• German: Sirup (de) m
• Greek: σιρόπι (el) n (sirópi)
• Hebrew: סִירוֹפּ‎ (he) m (siróp)
• Hindi: शर्बत (hi) f (śarbat)
• Hungarian: szirup (hu)
• Icelandic: síróp n
• Irish: síoróip f
• Italian: sciroppo (it) m
• Japanese: シロップ (ja) (shiroppu), 糖蜜 (とうみつ, tōmitsu)
• Kazakh: сироп (sïrop)
• Korean: 시럽 (ko) (sireop)
• Kyrgyz: сироп (ky) (sirop)
• Ladino:

  Hebrew: שארופי‎ m

  Latin: sharope m

• Latvian: sīrups m
• Lithuanian: sirupas m
• Luxembourgish: Sirro m
• Macedonian: сируп m (sirup)
• Malay: sirap
• Navajo: dáʼákaz bitooʼ
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: sirup (no) m

• Pashto: شربت‎ (ps) m (šarbát)
• Persian: شیره‎ (fa) (šire), شربت‎ (fa) (šarbat)
• Polish: syrop (pl) m
• Portuguese: xarope (pt) m
• Romanian: sirop (ro) n
• Russian: сиро́п (ru) m (siróp)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: сируп m

  Roman: sirup (sh) m

• Slovak: sirup m
• Slovene: sírup (sl) m
• Spanish: almíbar (es) m, jarabe (es) m, sirope m
• Swahili: asali (sw)
• Swedish: sirap (sv)
• Tagalog: harabe (tl)
• Tajik: шарбат (tg) (šarbat), сироп (tg) (sirop)
• Thai: น้ำเชื่อม (nám-chʉ̂ʉam)
• Turkish: şurup (tr)
• Turkmen: şerbet, sirop
• Ukrainian: сиро́п m (syróp)
• Uzbek: sharbat (uz), sirop (uz)
• Vietnamese: xi-rô (vi)
• Yiddish: סיראָפּ‎ m (sirop), סירופּ‎ m (sirup)

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