# sorbet

Pronunciation: US say "sor-BAY" /sɔɹˈbeɪ/; UK say "SOR-bay" /ˈsɔːbeɪ/

## Noun

1. A frozen dessert made from fruit juice, sometimes blended with egg whites, served as a sweet or between the courses of a meal.
   - Simple: A frozen sweet made from fruit juice, eaten as a dessert or between the courses of a meal.
   - _The restaurant served a tart raspberry sorbet to cleanse the palate before the main course._
   - _On hot afternoons she preferred a scoop of mango sorbet to ice cream._

## Origin

Borrowed from Middle French sorbet, itself from Italian sorbetto, which came from Ottoman Turkish şerbet and Classical Persian šarbat, ultimately from Arabic šarba, from the verb šariba ('to drink'). It is a doublet of sherbet and sharbat and is related to syrup.

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