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English
Etymology
From Middle English sirup, from Old French sirop, from Medieval Latin siruppus, syrupus, from Arabic شَرَاب (šarāb, “a drink, beverage, wine, coffee, syrup”), from شَرِبَ (šariba, “to drink”). Doublet of sirop. Related to sorbet, sherbet, sharbat.
Compare French sirop, Italian siroppo, sciroppo, Spanish jarabe, jarope, Portuguese xarope, and Dutch siroop and stroop.
The first known use of the spelling sirup was in the 14th century.
Pronunciation
Noun
syrup (countable and uncountable, plural syrups)
- Any thick liquid that has a high sugar content and which is added to or poured over food as a flavouring.
maple syrup
pancake syrup
peaches in syrup
1819, John Keats, “The Eve of St. Agnes”, in Lamia, Isabella, the Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems, London: [Thomas Davison] for Taylor and Hessey, , published 1820, →OCLC, stanza XXX, page 98:With jellies soother than the creamy curd, / And lucent syrops, tinct with cinnamon; [...]
- (by extension) Any viscous liquid.
cough syrup
rose syrup (rosewater)
- (figurative) Anything overly sweet or sentimental.
1990, Wayne Jancik, The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders, →ISBN, page 266:Eventually, he or his staunch public tired of his easy-listening syrup, so Price recorded gospel for the Myrrh label before semi-retiring to his Golden Cross Ranch in Texas.
- (Cockney rhyming slang, shortened from "syrup of figs") A wig.
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Translations
thick liquid that has a high sugar content
- Afrikaans: stroop
- Albanian: shurup (sq) m
- Arabic: شَرَاب m (šarāb)
- Egyptian Arabic: شربات m (šarbat)
- Hijazi Arabic: شيرة f (šīra)
- Armenian: մրգահյութ (hy) (mrgahyutʿ)
- Belarusian: сіро́п m (siróp)
- Bengali: শীরা (bn) (śira)
- Bulgarian: сиро́п m (siróp)
- Catalan: xarop (ca) m
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 糖漿/糖浆 (tong4 zoeng1)
- Mandarin: 糖漿/糖浆 (zh) (tángjiāng), 果子露 (zh) (guǒzilù)
- Czech: sirup (cs) m
- Danish: sirup
- Dutch: stroop (nl), siroop (nl) m
- Esperanto: siropo
- Estonian: siirup
- Faroese: siropur m
- Finnish: siirappi (fi), sokeriliemi
- French: sirop (fr) m
- Georgian: სიროფი (siropi)
- German: Sirup (de) m
- Greek: σιρόπι (el) n (sirópi)
- Ancient: σίραιον n (síraion)
- Haitian Creole: siwo
- Hebrew: סִירוֹפּ (he) m (siróp)
- Hindi: शर्बत (hi) f (śarbat), चाशनी (hi) f (cāśnī), अर्क़ m (arq), रस (hi) m (ras)
- Hungarian: szirup (hu)
- Icelandic: síróp n
- Irish: síoróip f
- Italian: sciroppo (it) m
- Japanese: シロップ (ja) (shiroppu), 糖蜜 (ja) (とうみつ, tōmitsu)
- Kazakh: шәрбат (şärbat)
- Khmer: ស៊ីរ៉ូ (siirou)
- Korean: 시럽 (ko) (sireop)
- Kyrgyz: сироп (ky) (sirop), шарбат (şarbat)
- Ladino:
- Hebrew: שארופי m
- Ladino: sharope m
- Latin: sapa f
- Latvian: sīrups m
- Lithuanian: sirupas m
- Luxembourgish: Sirro m
- Macedonian: сируп m (sirup)
- Malay: sirap
- Navajo: dáʼákaz bitooʼ
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: sirup (no) m
- Pashto: شربت (ps) m (šarbát)
- Persian: شیره (fa) (šire), شربت (fa) (šarbat)
- Polish: syrop (pl) m
- Portuguese: xarope (pt) m
- Romanian: sirop (ro) n
- Russian: сиро́п (ru) m (siróp)
- Scots: seerup
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: сируп m
- Roman: sirup (sh) m
- Slovak: sirup m
- Slovene: sírup (sl) m
- Spanish: almíbar (es) m, jarabe (es) m, sirope m
- Swahili: asali (sw)
- Swedish: sirap (sv)
- Tagalog: harabe (tl)
- Tajik: шарбат (tg) (šarbat), сироп (tg) (sirop)
- Thai: น้ำเชื่อม (th) (nám-chʉ̂ʉam)
- Turkish: şurup (tr)
- Turkmen: şerbet, sirop
- Ukrainian: сиро́п m (syróp)
- Urdu: چاشنی f (cāśnī)
- Uzbek: sharbat (uz), sirop (uz)
- Vietnamese: xi-rô (vi)
- Yiddish: סיראָפּ m (sirop), סירופּ m (sirup)
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Verb
syrup (third-person singular simple present syrups, present participle syruping, simple past and past participle syruped)
- (transitive) To convert or process into syrup.
- (transitive) To add syrup to.
- (transitive) To sabotage (a vehicle) by pouring syrup into the gas tank.
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