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Definition: Sirup |
SirupNoun1. A thick sweet sticky liquid. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "sirup" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1939. (references) |
Etymology: Sirup \Sir"up\Syrup \Syr"up\, noun. [French sirop (compare to Italian siroppo, Spanish jarabe, jarope, Late Latin siruppus, syrupus), from Arabic shar[=a]b a drink, wine, coffee, sirup. Compare to Sherbet.]. (references) |
Synonym: SirupSynonym: syrup (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Sweetness | Sugar, syrup, treacle, molasses, honey, manna; confection, confectionary; sweets, grocery, conserve, preserve, confiture, jam, julep; sugar-candy, sugar-plum; licorice, marmalade, plum, lollipop, bonbon, jujube, comfit, sweetmeat; apple butter, caramel, damson, glucose; maple sirup, maple syrup, maple sugar; mithai, sorghum, taffy. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Sirup |
| English words defined with "sirup": Capillaire ♦ Diacodium ♦ Electuary, Eucalyn ♦ Indican ♦ Magistral ♦ Ophelic, Orgeat, Oxymel ♦ Proof stick ♦ Quiddany ♦ Saccharimetry, Seminose, Sorbite, Strike of sugar, Sutor, Syruped ♦ To boil down ♦ Vacuum pan. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "sirup": sherbet. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Sirup" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Czech (sirup, squash, syrup, treacle), Danish (syrup), German (molasses, syrup, treacle), Indonesian (syrup), Serbo-Croatian (syrup, treacle). |
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| "Deep Honey 2" by Gilbert Tremblay Commentary: "Close up of maple sirup because we love it so much! ;)." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | Pa came close, carrying a can of sirup in his hands |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Expressions using "sirup": Maple sirup ♦ mixing sirup. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
sirup | 5 |
maple sirup | 3 |
rezept sirup | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "sirup"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | shurup (salt-glaze, syrup), melasë e rafinuar (syrup). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | сироп (syrup). (various references) | |
Czech | sirup (squash, syrup, treacle). (various references) | |
Danish | sirup (syrup), saft (juice, sap). (various references) | |
Dutch | stroop (syrup), siroop (syrup). (various references) | |
Finnish | siirappi (syrup, treacle). (various references) | |
French | sirop. (various references) | |
German | Sirup (molasses, syrup, treacle). (various references) | |
Greek | σιρόπι (julep, syrup, treacle). (various references) | |
Hungarian | szirup (molasses, syrup, treacle), szörp (syrup). (various references) | |
Italian | sciroppo (julep, squash, syrup). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | irupsay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | xarope (syrup). (various references) | |
Romanian | sirop (syrup). (various references) | |
Russian | сироп (syrup), очищенная патока (syrup), патока (molasses, syrup, treacle). (various references) | |
Spanish | almíbar (syrup). (various references) | |
Thai | น้ำเชื่อม (syrup). (various references) | |
Turkish | koyu şerbet (syrup), şurup (julep, syrup), aşırı duygusal üslup (syrup). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | сироп (honey, syrup). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | xi-rô (syrup), nước ngọt (syrup). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "sirup": sirups, sirupy. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: puris. | |
| Words within the letters "i-p-r-s-u" | |
-1 letter: puri, purs, rips, spur. | |
-2 letters: pis, piu, psi, pur, pus, rip, sip, sir, sri, sup, ups. | |
-3 letters: is, pi, si, up, us. | |
| Words containing the letters "i-p-r-s-u" | |
+1 letter: primus, purins, purism, purist, sirups, sirupy, unrips, uprise, upstir. | |
+2 letters: disrupt, euripus, inpours, irrupts, priapus, prudish, prussic, purines, purisms, purists, purlins, pursier, pursily, pursing, pursuit, pushier, pussier, pyurias, rupiahs, soupier, spirula, spumier, stirrup, suspire, turnips, umpires, updries, upgirds, upraise, uprisen, upriser, uprises, upstair, upstirs. | |
+3 letters: biparous, chirrups, culprits, cuprites, cuspidor, disputer, disrupts, duperies, epicures, frumpish, groupies, grumpish, guipures, guruship, imporous, imputers, ingroups, junipers, marsupia, murphies, outstrip, pagurids, paviours, penuries, perilous, periques, perusing, pervious, pictures, piecrust, piraguas, pirogues, piroques, pleurisy, plushier, poxvirus, precious, premiums, previous, primulas, primuses, protiums, provirus, pruinose, prurigos, pruritus, puggries, pumicers, punisher, purgings, purifies, puristic, puritans, purities, purlieus, purlines, purloins, purplish, pursiest, pursuing, pursuits, purviews, puttiers, pyritous, quippers, quipster, reequips, resupine, rhizopus, roupiest, slurping, spicular, spirulae, spirulas, sprucier, sprucing, spunkier, spurious, spurning, spurrier, spurries, spurring, spurting, stipular, stirrups, stumpier, stupider, superfix, superhit, supering, superior, superlie, supplier, surplice, surprint, surprise, surprize, suspired, suspires, triumphs, turnspit, unripest, upbraids, upraised, upraiser, upraises, uprights, uprisers, uprising, uprivers, upspring, upstairs, usurping, viperous, writeups. | |
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