sher·bet (shûr b t)n. 1. also sher·bert (-bûrt  ) A frozen dessert made primarily of fruit juice, sugar, and water, and also containing milk, egg white, or gelatin.2. Chiefly British A beverage made of sweetened diluted fruit juice. 3. also sherbert Australian An alcoholic beverage, especially beer. [Ottoman Turkish, sweet fruit drink, from Persian sharbat, from Arabic  arba, drink, from ariba, to drink; see  rb in Semitic roots.]Word History: Although the word sherbet has been in the English language for several centuries (it was first recorded in 1603), it has not always referred to what one normally thinks of as sherbet. Sherbet came into English from Ottoman Turkish sherbet or Persian sharbat, both going back to Arabic arba, "drink." The Turkish and Persian words referred to a beverage of sweetened, diluted fruit juice that was popular in the Middle East and imitated in Europe. In Europe sherbet eventually came to refer to a carbonated drink. Because the original Middle Eastern drink contained fruit and was often cooled with snow, sherbet was applied to a frozen dessert (first recorded in 1891). It is distinguished slightly from sorbet, which can also mean "a fruit-flavored ice served between courses of a meal." Sorbet (first recorded in English in 1585) goes back through French (sorbet) and then Italian (sorbetto) to the same Turkish sherbet that gave us sherbet. |
sherbet [ˈʃɜːbət]
n
1. (Cookery) a fruit-flavoured slightly effervescent powder, eaten as a sweet or used to make a drink lemon sherbet
2. (Cookery) another word (esp US and Canadian) for sorbet [1]
3. (Miscellaneous Technologies / Brewing) Austral slang beer
4. (Cookery) a cooling Oriental drink of sweetened fruit juice
5. South African informal a euphemistic word for shit
[from Turkish şerbet, from Persian sharbat, from Arabic sharbah drink, from shariba to drink]
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| Noun | 1. | sherbet - a frozen dessert made primarily of fruit juice and sugar, but also containing milk or egg-white or gelatin frozen dessert - any of various desserts prepared by freezing |
Translations
sherbet [ˈʃɜːrbət] n
(British) (powder) sucrerie consistant en une poudre qui entre en effervescence au contact de la salive
(US) (= water ice) → sorbet m
sherbet
n (= powder) → Brausepulver nt; (= drink) → Brause f, → Sorbet m or nt; (US: = water ice) → Fruchteis nt
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