sharbat

Noun

sharbat (plural sharbats)

1. A West and South Asian sweet drink prepared from fruits or flower petals; a sherbet.
   • 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.1998, Jeffrey Steingarten, The Man Who Ate Everything, page 362
   • 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.2005, Orhan Pamuk, translated by Maureen Freely, Snow, page 218