syrup
Other forms: syrups
Syrup is the thick, sweet liquid you pour on your blueberry pancakes. Maple syrup is just one of many deliciously sticky types of syrup.
Syrup is a sweetener that dissolves in liquid more quickly and easily than sugar, so it's often used in beverages. Corn syrup sweetens many sodas, and you might pour a simple syrup (which is made by melting sugar in hot water and cooling it) into your iced tea. The Old French source is sirop, "sugary drink," from the Arabic sharab, "beverage."
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a thick sweet sticky liquidsynonyms: siruptypes:sugar syrupsugar and water and sometimes corn syrup boiled together; used as sweetening especially in drinksmolassesthick dark syrup produced by boiling down juice from sugar cane; especially during sugar refininggrenadinethin syrup made from pomegranate juice; used in mixed drinksmaple syrupmade by concentrating sap from sugar maplescorn syrupthick, sweet liquid made from maizetype of:
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Vocabulary lists containing syrup
Most words come to us from the English language's Germanic roots, as well as a lot of Latin, French, and Ancient Greek. There are, however, many English words that are actually derived from Arabic. Most of these have to do with chemistry, astronomy or mathematics — but here's a list of words derived from Arabic to do with food and drink. The words in this list mainly reach English through Portuguese and Spanish, as Iberia was under the control of Arabic people from 710–1492 CE. As the Portuguese and Spanish were in such close proximity to Arabic on a daily basis, many of the food and drink items featured here were first introduced to them, before they passed them on to the rest of Europe.
