sorbet

See also: Sorbet and sörbet

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Arabic شَرِبَ (šariba)der.

Arabic شَرْبَة (šarba)bor.

Classical Persian شَرْبَت (šarbat)bor.

Ottoman Turkish شربت (şerbet)bor.

Italian sorbettobor.

Middle French sorbetbor.

English 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.

Pronunciation

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

• Audio (Southern England):

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

Noun

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.

Synonyms

• ice
• Italian ice

Translations

frozen fruit juice

• Azerbaijani: şərbət (az)
• Arabic: شَرْبَات مُثَلَّج m (šarbāt muṯallaj)
• Bulgarian: шербе́т m (šerbét), сорбе́ n (sorbé)
• Catalan: sorbet (ca) m, xarrup (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 雪葩 (zh) (xuěpā), 雪芭 (zh) (xuěbā), 雪寶 / 雪宝 (xuěbǎo), 雪酪

• Finnish: sorbetti (fi)
• French: sorbet (fr) m
• German: Sorbet (de) n
• Greek: σορμπέ (el) n (sormpé)
• Indonesian: sorbet (id)
• Italian: sorbetto (it) m
• Japanese: シャーベット (ja) (shābetto), ソルベ (sorube)
• Kannada: ಸಾರ್ಬೆ (sārbe)
• Korean: 셔벗 (ko) (syeobeot), 소르베 (soreube)
• Malayalam: സോർബെറ്റ് (sōṟbeṟṟŭ)
• Persian: سربی (fa)
• Polish: sorbet (pl) m
• Portuguese: sorvete (pt) m (Portugal)
• Spanish: sorbeto m
• Swedish: sorbet (sv) c
• Thai: ซอร์เบ
• Turkish: sorbet (tr)

See also

• sherbet

Anagrams

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

French

Etymology

Etymology tree

Arabic شَرِبَ (šariba)der.

Arabic شَرْبَة (šarba)bor.

Classical Persian شَرْبَت (šarbat)bor.

Ottoman Turkish شربت (şerbet)bor.

Italian sorbettobor.

Middle French sorbet

French sorbet

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).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɔʁ.bɛ/

• Audio (France):

  (file)

Noun

sorbet m (plural sorbets)

1. sorbet, sherbet

Derived terms

• sorbetière

Descendants

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

Further reading

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

Indonesian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈsorbɛt/ [ˈsor.bɛt̪̚]
• Rhymes: -orbɛt
• Syllabification: sor‧bet

Noun

sorbet (plural sorbet-sorbet)

1. (cooking) sorbet

Derived terms

• sorbet stroberi

Further reading

• “sorbet”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

Latin

Verb

sorbet

1. third-person singular present active indicative of sorbeō

Lombard

Alternative forms

• sorbètt (Classical Milanese Orthography)

Pronunciation

• (Milanese) IPA^(key): /surˈbɛt/

Noun

sorbet m

1. sorbet, sherbet, gelato

Derived terms

• sorbeter, sorbetera

Polish

Etymology

Etymology tree

Arabic شَرِبَ (šariba)der.

Arabic شَرْبَة (šarba)bor.

Classical Persian شَرْبَت (šarbat)bor.

Ottoman Turkish شربت (şerbet)bor.

Italian sorbettobor.

Middle French sorbet

French sorbetbor.

Polish sorbet

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).

Pronunciation

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

Noun

sorbet m inan

1. sorbet, sherbet (frozen fruit juice)

Declension

Declension of sorbet

	singular	plural
nominative	sorbet	sorbety
genitive	sorbetu	sorbetów
dative	sorbetowi	sorbetom
accusative	sorbet	sorbety
instrumental	sorbetem	sorbetami
locative	sorbecie	sorbetach
vocative	sorbecie	sorbety

Derived terms

adjective

• sorbetowy

Further reading

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

Portuguese

Etymology

Etymology tree

Arabic شَرِبَ (šariba)der.

Arabic شَرْبَة (šarba)bor.

Classical Persian شَرْبَت (šarbat)bor.

Ottoman Turkish شربت (şerbet)bor.

Italian sorbettobor.

Middle French sorbet

French sorbetubor.

Portuguese sorbet

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.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /soʁˈbe/ [soɦˈbe]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /soʁˈbe/ [soɦˈbe]
  • (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /soɾˈbe/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /soʁˈbe/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /soɻˈbe/

Noun

sorbet m (uncountable)

1. sorbet (frozen fruit juice)

Romanian

Etymology

Etymology tree

Arabic شَرِبَ (šariba)der.

Arabic شَرْبَة (šarba)bor.

Classical Persian شَرْبَت (šarbat)bor.

Ottoman Turkish شربت (şerbet)bor.

Italian sorbettobor.

Middle French sorbet

French sorbetbor.

Romanian sorbet

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).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sorˈbet/

Noun

sorbet n (plural sorbete or sorbeturi)

1. sorbet

Declension

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	sorbet	sorbetul		sorbete	sorbetele
genitive-dative	sorbet	sorbetului		sorbete	sorbetelor
vocative	sorbetule			sorbetelor

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	sorbet	sorbetul		sorbeturi	sorbeturile
genitive-dative	sorbet	sorbetului		sorbeturi	sorbeturilor
vocative	sorbetule			sorbeturilor

Further reading

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