sorbet

Borrowed from Middle French sorbet, borrowed from Italian sorbetto, borrowed from Ottoman Turkish شربت (şerbet), borrowed from Classical Persian شَرْبَت (šarbat), borrowed from Arabic شَرْبَة (šarba), from شَرِبَ (šariba).

Doublet of sherbet and sharbat, related to syrup.

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

• Audio (Southern England):

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

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.

• ice
• Italian ice

• sherbet

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

Inherited from Middle French sorbet, borrowed from Italian sorbetto, borrowed from Ottoman Turkish شربت (şerbet), borrowed from Classical Persian شَرْبَت (šarbat), borrowed from Arabic شَرْبَة (šarba), from شَرِبَ (šariba).

• IPA^(key): /sɔʁ.bɛ/

• Audio (France):

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sorbet m (plural sorbets)

1. sorbet, sherbet

• → Portuguese: sorvete
  • → Hunsrik: Sorvett, Sërvett
• → Portuguese: sorbet

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

sorbet

1. third-person singular present active indicative of sorbeō

• sorbètt (Classical Milanese Orthography)

• (Milanese) IPA^(key): /surˈbɛt/

sorbet m

1. sorbet, sherbet, gelato

• sorbeter, sorbetera

Borrowed from French sorbet, from Middle French sorbet, borrowed from Italian sorbetto, borrowed from Ottoman Turkish شربت (şerbet), borrowed from Classical Persian شَرْبَت (šarbat), borrowed from Arabic شَرْبَة (šarba), from شَرِبَ (šariba).

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

sorbet m inan

1. sorbet, sherbet (frozen fruit juice)

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

Unadapted borrowing from French sorbet, from Middle French sorbet, borrowed from Italian sorbetto, borrowed from Ottoman Turkish شربت (şerbet), borrowed from Classical Persian شَرْبَت (šarbat), borrowed from Arabic شَرْبَة (šarba), from شَرِبَ (šariba). Doublet of sorvete.

sorbet m (uncountable)

1. sorbet (frozen fruit juice)

Borrowed from French sorbet, from Middle French sorbet, borrowed from Italian sorbetto, borrowed from Ottoman Turkish شربت (şerbet), borrowed from Classical Persian شَرْبَت (šarbat), borrowed from Arabic شَرْبَة (šarba), from شَرِبَ (šariba).

• IPA^(key): /sorˈbet/

sorbet n (plural sorbete or sorbeturi)

1. sorbet

• “sorbet”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2025