sorbete
Latin
Spanish
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /soɾˈbete/ [soɾˈβ̞e.t̪e]
- Rhymes: -ete
- Syllabification: sor‧be‧te
Etymology 1
Borrowed from French sorbet (“frozen fruit juice dessert”), cf. Brazilian Portuguese sorvete (“ice cream”), from Turkish şerbet (“sherbet”), from Arabic شُرْبَة (šurba, “a drink”), from Arabic شَرِبَ (šariba, “to drink”).
Adjective
sorbete m or f (masculine and feminine plural sorbetes)
- (colloquial, El Salvador) having difficulty hearing; deaf
- Synonym: sordo
Noun
sorbete m (plural sorbetes)
- (countable, Argentina, Ecuador, Peru) drinking straw
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:pajita
Further reading
- “sorbete”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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