Sharbat
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Sharbat is a noun meaning A West and South Asian sweet drink prepared from fruits or flower petals; a sherbet.
Meaning
A West and South Asian sweet drink prepared from fruits or flower petals; a sherbet.
Example Sentences
When Mrs. Dwivedi had no longer felt like standing there tracking Chellam's progress in the punishing heat, she’d come indoors, ordered her cook to make her a tall glass of iced sharbat, and telephoned Amma.
Ka found the general lack of interest liberating. This is why he went into the snack bar on the corner of Little Kâzimbey Avenue and Kâzim Karabekir Avenue, and ordered himself a cinnamon sharbat, and he drank it with relish.
The Arabs brought sugarcane, mulberries, and citrus fruits (along with many things that have nothing to do with granita), and innumberable recipes for sharbat, their sweetened, aromatic drinks flavored with fruits, blossoms, and spices, and often chilled with mountain snow.
Word Forms
- sharbats
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include sherbet, sherbert, scherbet, zarda, narsharab, rabadi.
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