syrup

UK/ˈsɪ.ɹəp/US/ˈsɪɹ.əp/

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Other forms: syrups

Syrup is the thick sweet liquid poured over pancakes, often from maple trees. Maple syrup, golden syrup, a spoonful of syrup.

Maple syrup takes about forty litres of sap to make one of syrup, which is why it costs what it does. Golden syrup is a British by-product of sugar refining. The word came through Latin from Arabic sharab, a drink — the same root as sherbet.

Definitions of syrup

1nounsyrupA thick sweet liquid.B1
“She poured maple syrup over a stack of warm pancakes.”
- Said"Pass me the syrup; pancakes without it are just warm bread."
- WrittenThe syrup slid off the ladle in a slow gold rope and pooled in the bowl.
- UsedHeat the syrups slightly so they pour instead of dropping in lumps.
- ContrastSyrup, not honey. Honey comes from bees and tastes of flowers; syrup is boiled sugar, and tastes of sugar. honey →
- Not thisJuice is not syrup, however sweet. Syrup is thick enough to coat a knife.
- SimplyPut syrup on the cake. I like it.
Patternmaple / golden / cough syrup · a spoonful of syrup · in syrup · syrupy

syrup is a sweet liquid.

Remember it

It comes from an old word meaning a drink: syrup is sugar melted into water until the drink is thick and sweet.

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Where it comes from

Medieval Latin siruppus comes from Arabic sharab, a drink, from shariba, to drink. Sherbet and sorbet come from the same drinking.

Arabic
شَرَاب — a drink, beverage, wine, coffee, syrup
Medieval Latin
siruppus
Old French
sirop
Middle English
sirup
English, today
syrup

Built from

شَرِبَ · Arabic — to drink

From Middle English sirup, from Old French sirop, from Medieval Latin siruppus, syrupus, from Arabic شَرَاب (“a drink, beverage, wine, coffee, syrup”), from شَرِبَ (“to drink”). a 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.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

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syrup in the wild

Maple syrup is a sweet syrup made from the sap of maple trees.
Maple syrup
Maple syrup was first made by the Indigenous people of Northeastern North America.
Maple syrup
Orgeat syrup is an important ingredient in the Mai Tai and many Tiki drinks.
Orgeat syrup
Other names include invert sugar, simple syrup, sugar syrup, sugar water, bar syrup, and sucrose inversion.
Inverted sugar syrup
Coffee milk is a drink made by mixing coffee syrup or extract with milk, in a manner similar to chocolate milk.
Coffee milk

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maple syrup

Definitions of syrup

1nounsyrupA thick sweet liquid.B1

“She poured maple syrup over a stack of warm pancakes.”

Said"Pass me the syrup; pancakes without it are just warm bread."
WrittenThe syrup slid off the ladle in a slow gold rope and pooled in the bowl.
UsedHeat the syrups slightly so they pour instead of dropping in lumps.
ContrastSyrup, not honey. Honey comes from bees and tastes of flowers; syrup is boiled sugar, and tastes of sugar. honey →
Not thisJuice is not syrup, however sweet. Syrup is thick enough to coat a knife.
SimplyPut syrup on the cake. I like it.

Patternmaple / golden / cough syrup · a spoonful of syrup · in syrup · syrupy

syrup is a sweet liquid.