شربت

Arabic

Verb

شربت (form I)

  1. شَرِبْتُ (šaribtu) /ʃa.rib.tu/: first-person singular past active of شَرِبَ (šariba)
  2. شَرِبْتَ (šaribta) /ʃa.rib.ta/: second-person masculine singular past active of شَرِبَ (šariba)
  3. شَرِبْتِ (šaribti) /ʃa.rib.ti/: second-person feminine singular past active of شَرِبَ (šariba)
  4. شَرِبَتْ (šaribat) /ʃa.ri.bat/: third-person feminine singular past active of شَرِبَ (šariba)
  5. شُرِبْتُ (šuribtu) /ʃu.rib.tu/: first-person singular past passive of شَرِبَ (šariba)
  6. شُرِبْتَ (šuribta) /ʃu.rib.ta/: second-person masculine singular past passive of شَرِبَ (šariba)
  7. شُرِبْتِ (šuribti) /ʃu.rib.ti/: second-person feminine singular past passive of شَرِبَ (šariba)
  8. شُرِبَتْ (šuribat) /ʃu.ri.bat/: third-person feminine singular past passive of شَرِبَ (šariba)

Gulf Arabic

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish شربت (şerbet) or Persian شربت (šarbat), from Arabic شَرْبَة (šarba).

Pronunciation

Noun

شَرْبَت • (šarbat) (dual شَرْبَتين (šarbatēn), no plural)

  1. a drink made of mixture of fruit concentrate and sugar; a sherbet

Derived terms

  • شربت نمل (šarbat namil, šarbat nimil)

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian شربت (šarbat, sharbat), itself from Arabic شَرْبَة (šarba, drink).

Noun

شربت • (şerbet)

  1. (in general) drink, beverage, any liquid that can be consumed
    Synonyms: ایچه‌جك (içecek), شراب (şarab), مشروبات (meşrubat)
  2. sharbat, a West and South Asian sweet drink prepared from fruits or flower petals
  3. sherbet, sorbet, a frozen fruit juice blended with sugar and eaten as dessert
  4. sort of weak decoction of coffee grounds, kept ready for the preparation of coffee
  5. any infusion prepared for a special use, as a wash for soaking materials or liquid manure

Derived terms

  • شربت ایچمك (şerbet içmek, to get engaged)
  • شربت ویرمك (şerbet virmek, to wet with an infusion)
  • شربتجی (şerbetci, maker or seller of sherbets)
  • شربتخانه (şerbethane, wine shop, tavern)
  • شربتدان (şerbetdan, servant specialized in making sherbets)
  • شربتلك (şerbetlik, anything used for making sherbets)

Descendants

  • Turkish: şerbet
  • Albanian: sherbet
  • Armenian: շէրպէթ (šērpētʻ)
  • English: sherbet
  • Greek: σορμπέ (sormpé)
  • Italian: sorbetto
  • Serbo-Croatian:
    Cyrillic script: шѐрбет
    Latin script: šèrbet

Further reading

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic شَرْبَة (šarba, drink).

Pronunciation

 

Readings
Classical reading? šarbat
Dari reading? šarbat
Iranian reading? šarbat
Tajik reading? šarbat
  • Audio (Iran):(file)

Noun

شربت • (šarbat) (plural شربت‌ها (šarbat-hā / šarbat-hâ), Tajik spelling шарбат)

  1. sharbat, sherbet
    • c. 1520, Selim I of the Ottoman Empire, edited by Benedek Péri, The Persian Dīvān of Yavuz Sulṭān Selīm, Budapest, Hungary: Research Centre for the Humanities, Eötvös Loránd Research Network, →ISBN, page 146:
      هر که او تیر فراقت بدل پر غم خورد
      نه دگر شربت هجران نه غم مرهم خورد
      har ki ō tīr-i firāqat ba-dil-i pur ġam xwarad
      na digar šarbat-i hijrān na ġam-i marham xwarad
      Whoever suffers the arrow of separation in his sorrowful heart
      Shall no longer drink the sherbet of departure, nor suffer the sorrow of the remedy [to the disease of love].
      (Classical Persian transliteration)

Derived terms

  • تخم شربتی (toxm-e šarbati)

Descendants