Masculine

sorbeto

Meaning

  1. (masculine, uncountable) sorbet
  2. (Cuba, Puerto-Rico, masculine, uncountable) sweet soft dough often with encrusted fruit or candy
  3. (Cuba, Puerto-Rico, countable, masculine) piece of such dough
  4. (Costa-Rica, countable, masculine) wafer, oblea (thin wafer dessert filled with sweet filling)

Hyphenated as
sor‧be‧to
Pronounced as (IPA)
/soɾˈbeto/
Etymology

In summary

Borrowed from Italian sorbetto, from Turkish şerbet (“sherbet”), from Arabic شُرْبَة (šurba, “a drink”), from Arabic شَرِبَ (šariba, “to drink”).

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