arrope
grape must boiled down to a syrupmosto cocido hasta tomar consistencia de jarabe
Comes from Arabic
الرُّبّ
ar-rubb
“fruit juice thickened over the fire”«jugo de fruta espesado al fuego»
Arabic today says
دِبْس
dibs
The article
Spanish kept the Arabic article al- glued to the word.
The story
The sun letter r doubled the article: ar-rubb > arrope. Today rubb is used for concentrates (rubb al-banadūra, "tomato paste"), and grape syrup is dibs.La r solar duplicó el artículo: ar-rubb > arrope. Hoy rubb se usa para concentrados (rubb al-banadūra, «tomate concentrado»), y el arrope de uva es dibs.
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