syrup
Syllables: syr·upUK/ˈsɪ.ɹəp//ˈsɪɹ.əp/
syrup noun: any thick liquid that has a high sugar content and which is added to or poured over food as a flavoring.
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 flavoring.
- maple syrup
- pancake syrup
- Any viscous liquid.
- cough syrup
- rose syrup
- Anything overly sweet or sentimental.
- 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.1990, Wayne Jancik, The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders, →ISBN, page 266
- A wig.
Verb
syrup (third-person singular simple present syrups, present participle syruping, simple past and past participle syruped)
syrup meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
syrup in Hindi
- thick liquid that has a high sugar content
- शर्बत śarbat, चाशनी cāśnī, अर्क़ arq, रस ras
syrup in Tamil
- பாகு, சீனிப்பாகு, இனிப்புக்கூழ்
syrup in Marathi
- सिरप, सीरप, सिरपिंग
syrup in Urdu
- thick liquid that has a high sugar content
- چاشْنی cāśnī, عَرَقْ 'araq, رَس ras, شِیرَہ śīra, شَرْبَت śarbat
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- syrup in Bengali
- শীরা śira
- syrup in Telugu
- సిరప్, సీరప్, సిరపింగ్
- syrup in Malayalam
- ശർക്കരപ്പാവ്, പഞ്ചസാരപ്പാവ്, മധുപാനകം
- syrup in Kannada
- ಷರಬತ್ತು, ಪಾನಕ, ಸಿಹಿಪಾನೀಯ, ಕಬ್ಬಿನ ಹಾಲಿನ ಪಾಕ
- syrup in Punjabi
- ਰਸ ras
- syrup in Gujarati
- ચાસણી, સીરપ, સિરપ
- syrup in Odia
- ସିରପ୍, ସିରପ, ସିରାପିଂ
- syrup in Nepali
- सिरप, सीरप, सिराप
- syrup in Pashto
- شربت šarbát
- syrup in Tagalog
- harabe
- syrup in Arabic
- شَرَاب šarāb, قَطْر qaṭr, شِيرَة šīra
- syrup in Malay
- sirap
- syrup in Thai
- น้ำเชื่อม nám-chʉ̂ʉam
- syrup in Vietnamese
- xi-rô
Examples of syrup in a sentence
- If we tap the maple trees, we can get maple syrup.
- Alice went to the diner and ordered a stack of silver dollars with butter and blueberry syrup.
- For breakfast he ordered a stack of hotcakes with butter and syrup.
Forms of syrup
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | syrups |
| alternative form | sirop |
| alternative form | sirup |
| alternative form | syrop |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | syrups |
| present participle | syruping |
| past participle | syruped |
| past | syruped |
Origin of syrup
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.
Words formed from syrup
- bar syrup
- bucket of syrup
- Canadian as maple syrup
- cane syrup
- coffee syrup
- corn syrup
- cough syrup
- glucose-fructose syrup
- glucose syrup
- golden syrup
- green syrup
- high-fructose corn syrup
- high fructose corn syrup
- high-fructose maize syrup
- maize syrup
- maple syrup
- maple syrup urine disease
- palm syrup
- pancake syrup
- refiner's syrup
- rose syrup
- simple syrup
- sizzurp
- snail syrup
- sorghum syrup
- syruper
- syruplike
- syrup of figs
- syrup of ipecac
- syrupy
Phrases with syrup
Words that rhyme with syrup
Questions about syrup
- What does syrup mean?
- Syrup means any thick liquid that has a high sugar content and which is added to or poured over food as a flavoring.
- What is syrup in Hindi?
- Syrup in Hindi is शर्बत (śarbat), चाशनी (cāśnī), अर्क़ (arq). See Syrup meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is syrup?
- Syrup can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce syrup?
- Syrup is pronounced /ˈsɪ.ɹəp/ (UK).
- What is the plural of syrup?
- The plural of syrup is syrups.
Words near syrup in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: syrup (page history and authors); syrup (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); syrup (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); syrup (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); syrup (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); syrup (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ਰਸ (Punjabi) (page history and authors); syrup (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); syrup (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); syrup (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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