Sharbat (drink)
sweet drink
Sharbat (Persian: شربت, pronounced [ʃæɾˈbæt]; Turkish şerbet, Arabic شَرْبَة sharbah, a drink, from "shariba" to drink. This word can be written as shorbot, šerbet, şerbet or sherbet) is a drink prepared from fruit or flower petals. It is a sweet cordial, and usually served chilled. It can be served in concentrated form and eaten with a spoon or diluted with water to create the drink.
Popular sharbats are made of one or more of the following: basil seeds, golāb (rose water), fresh rose petals, sandalwood, bael, hibiscus, lemon, orange, mango, pineapple, grape, falsa (Grewia asiatica) and chia seeds.
Sharbat is common in the homes of Iran, Armenia, Turkey, Bosnia, the Arab world, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Bangladesh and India. It is also popular with Muslims when breaking their daily fasts during the month of Ramadan.
Etymology
The term comes from the Persian word sharbat (شربت), meaning a drink of sugar and water. This in turn came from the Arabic word shariba, "to drink". By the late Middle Ages, the Arabic word sharāb (شراب) had come to mean "alcoholic beverage" and the alternate form sharbāt (شربات) and its Persian and Turkish variations, sharbat (شربت), and şerbet respectively, took on the meaning of a sweet non-alcoholic beverage.
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