Where does “sorbete” come from?
sorbete (Spanish) comes from French sorbet, from Italian sorbetto, from Turkish şerbet, from Arabic شُرْبَة, from Ottoman Turkish چوربا, from Persian شوربا, from Persian شور, from Persian شوریدن — to wash.
sorbete (Spanish): sorbet; ice cream; drinking straw
Definitions
- sorbet; ice cream; drinking straw
Ancestry of “sorbete”, step by step
sorbete traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via French sorbet
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | sorbet | sorbet, sherbet |
| 2 | Italian | sorbetto | sorbet, sherbet; first-person singular present... |
| 3 | Turkish | şerbet | sherbet |
| 4 | Arabic | شُرْبَة | a drink; drink |
| 5 | Ottoman Turkish | چوربا | soup |
| 6 | Persian | شوربا | a kind of stew |
| 7 | Persian | شور | salty; excitement; uproar, clamor |
| 8 | Persian | شوریدن | to revolt, to rebel |
| 9 | Persian | شستن | to wash |
via Spanish sorber
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Spanish | sorber | to sip, suck; to absorb, suck in, soak up; to... |
| 2 | Latin | sorbere | present active infinitive of sorbeō;... |
| 3 | Latin | sorbeo | I suck in, drink up |
| 4 | Proto-Italic | sorβeō | to suck in |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | srobʰéyeti | to be sipping, sucking; to cause to sip, suck |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | -éyeti | Forms causative imperfective verbs from roots;... |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | -yeti | Creates transitive imperfective verbs from roots |