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sharbat en · NOUN

Etymology

Borrowed from Hindustani, from Classical Persian شَرْبَت (šarbat). Doublet of sherbet and sorbet.

Meanings

1. A West and South Asian sweet drink prepared from fruits or flower petals; a sherbet.
   • Ka found the general lack of interest liberating. This is why he went into the snack bar on the corner of Little Kâzimbey Avenue and Kâzim Karabekir Avenue, and ordered himself a cinnamon sharbat, and he drank it with relish. 2005, Orhan Pamuk, translated by Maureen Freely, Snow, page 218:
   • The Arabs brought sugarcane, mulberries, and citrus fruits (along with many things that have nothing to do with granita), and innumberable recipes for sharbat, their sweetened, aromatic drinks flavored with fruits, blossoms, and spices, and often chilled with mountain snow. 1998, Jeffrey Steingarten, The Man Who Ate Everything, page 362:
   • When Mrs. Dwivedi had no longer felt like standing there tracking Chellam's progress in the punishing heat, she’d come indoors, ordered her cook to make her a tall glass of iced sharbat, and telephoned Amma. 2008, Preeta Samarasan, Evening Is the Whole Day, page 318:

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