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sorbete

sorbetrefresco helado de zumo de frutas

Comes from Arabic

شَرْبَة

sharba

“a sip, a drink”«un trago, una bebida»

Arabic today says

سُورْبِيه

sūrbīh

Root

ش ر ب

sh-r-b

The article

It came in without the article.

The story

It arrived late and by another route: from Arabic into Turkish şerbet, then Italian sorbetto, French sorbet, and finally Spanish. It is a sibling of jarabe (same root sh-r-b, "to drink").Llegó tarde y por otro camino: del árabe al turco şerbet, de ahí al italiano sorbetto, al francés sorbet y luego al castellano. Es hermano de jarabe (misma raíz sh-r-b, «beber»).

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