jarabe
syrup; liquid medicinebebida espesa y dulce; medicamento líquido
Comes from Arabic
شَرَاب
sharāb
“drink”«bebida»
Arabic today says
شَرَاب
sharāb
And it still does
Root
ش ر ب
sh-r-b
The article
It came in without the article.
The story
Arabic sh was written x in Old Spanish (xarabe) and later became j. In Arabic, sharāb as-suʿāl is exactly "cough syrup".La sh árabe se escribía x en castellano antiguo (xarabe) y luego se convirtió en j. En árabe, sharāb as-suʿāl es justo «jarabe para la tos».
In a sentence
Toma una cucharada de jarabe para la tos.
Take a spoonful of cough syrup.
خُذْ مِلْعَقَةً مِنْ شَرَابِ السُّعَال.
More words from the root ش ر ب
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