sorbet

Borrowed from Middle French sorbet, from Old Italian sorbetto, from Ottoman Turkish شربت (şerbet), from Arabic شَرْبَة (šarba, “drink”).

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

• IPA^(key): /sɔʁ.bɛ/

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sorbet m (plural sorbets)

1. sorbet, sherbet

• sorbetière

• “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, from Old Italian sorbetto, from Ottoman Turkish شربت (şerbet), from Persian شربت (šarbat), from Arabic شَرْبَة (šarba).

• 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. Doublet of sorvete.

sorbet m (uncountable)

1. sorbet (frozen fruit juice)

Borrowed from French sorbet.

• 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