xarope

• Rhymes: -ɔpi
• Hyphenation: xa‧ro‧pe

Borrowed from Arabic شَرَاب (šarāb, “a drink, beverage, wine, coffee, syrup”), from شَرِبَ (šariba, “to drink”). Compare Spanish jarabe and Catalan xarop.

xarope m (plural xaropes)

1. syrup
   1. (by extension, Brazil, colloquial) a food or drink that is too sweet
2. (Brazil, colloquial) homemade remedy; tisane

   Synonym: tisana

3. (Brazil, colloquial) laxative

   Synonym: laxante

4. (Brazil, figurative, colloquial) bore (something dull or uninteresting)

xarope m or f (plural xaropes)

1. (Brazil, figurative, colloquial) boring

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

xarope

1. inflection of xaropar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

• “xarope” in iDicionário Aulete.
• “xarope” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024.
• “xarope” in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa.