sirop

From Middle English sirop, sirup, syrop, syroppe, from Old French sirop.

sirop (countable and uncountable, plural sirops)

1. Obsolete form of syrup.

From French sirop.^[1] Doublet of syrup. Related to sorbet, sherbet, sharbat.

sirop (countable and uncountable, plural sirops)

1. A concentrated fruit drink; a cordial.
   • 1936, Agatha Christie, Cards on the Table, →ISBN, page 235:

     So it came about that at three o'clock of that same afternoon, Rhoda Dawes and Anne Meredith sat primly on their chairs in Poirot's neat room and sipped blackberry sirop (which they disliked very much but were too polite to refuse) from old-fashioned glasses.

2. A kettle used in making sugar by the open-kettle process.
   • 1900, Henry Rightor, Standard History of New Orleans, Louisiana, pages 675–76:

     It is then dipped into the Flambeau, where it is brushed and cleaned, then passed to the Sirop, where it is further brushed, and finally into the Batterie, where it is concentrated to the granulating point—a density of about 45 degrees Baumé, and with a temperature of about 240 degrees Fahrenheit.

• Piros, Spiro, spiro, spiro-, spori-

From Old French sirop, borrowed from Medieval Latin siroppus, from Arabic شَرَاب (šarāb, “beverage”), from شَرِبَ (šariba, “to drink”).

• IPA^(key): /si.ʁo/

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• IPA^(key): /si.ʁɔ/ (older, now chiefly Belgium)
• Rhymes: -o, -ɔ

sirop m (plural sirops)

1. syrup

   sirop d'érable ― maple syrup

   sirop de maïs ― corn syrup

• sirop de longue vie

• sirupeux

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

From Dutch siroop, from Middle Dutch siroop, from Old French sirop, from Medieval Latin siruppus, syrupus, from Arabic شَرَاب (šarāb, “a drink, beverage, wine, coffee, syrup”), from شَرِبَ (šariba, “to drink”).

• IPA^(key): (standard) [ˈsirɔp], (variant) [ˈsirʊp]
• Hyphenation: si‧rop

sirop (plural sirop-sirop)

1. syrup:
   1. any thick liquid that has a high sugar content and which is added to or poured over food as a flavouring
   2. medication as such

• sirup
• sirap (Standard Malay)

• derawa

• “sirop” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

sirop

1. alternative form of sirup

From Arabic شَرَاب (šarāb, “beverage”), from شَرِبَ (šariba, “to drink”).

sirop oblique singular, m (oblique plural siros, nominative singular siros, nominative plural sirop)

1. syrup
   • 1377, Bernard de Gordon, Fleur de lis de medecine (a.k.a. lilium medicine), page 154 of this essay:

     Ce sirop cy oste souverainement opilacion de l’esplain et pour ce il vault en plusieurs choses.

     This syrup gets rid of blockages of the spleen and many other things.

Borrowed from French sirop.

• IPA^(key): /siˈrop/

sirop n (plural siropuri)

1. syrup

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