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单词 sorb
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sorb1

noun sɔːbsɔrb
  • The fruit of the true service tree.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Sorb apple berries contain large amounts of malic acid that aid water retention.

Origin

Early 16th century: from French sorbe or Latin sorbus 'service tree', sorbum 'serviceberry'.

Rhymes

absorb, bedaub, daub, orb

Sorb2

noun sɔːbsɔrb
  • A member of a Slavic people living in parts of south-eastern Brandenburg and eastern Saxony.

    Also called Wend
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Wend tends to have a pejorative ring, especially in Eastern Germany, and today in all scholarly literature in Europe the word Sorb is preferred to Wend.
    • The Slovaks and the Wends/Sorbs are the only two Lutheran Slavic groups to immigrate to America, and their numbers were not large.
    • There were his own wishes both to find a ministerial post in Lusatia to serve Sorbs in their common language and to find a wife.
    • Sorbs were repeatedly forbidden to use their own language.

Origin

From German Sorbe.

 
 

sorb1

nounsôrbsɔrb
  • The fruit of the true service tree.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Sorb apple berries contain large amounts of malic acid that aid water retention.

Origin

Early 16th century: from French sorbe or Latin sorbus ‘service tree’, sorbum ‘serviceberry’.

Sorb2

nounsôrbsɔrb
  • A member of a Slavic people living in parts of southeastern Brandenburg and eastern Saxony.

    Also called Wend
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The Slovaks and the Wends/Sorbs are the only two Lutheran Slavic groups to immigrate to America, and their numbers were not large.
    • Wend tends to have a pejorative ring, especially in Eastern Germany, and today in all scholarly literature in Europe the word Sorb is preferred to Wend.
    • Sorbs were repeatedly forbidden to use their own language.
    • There were his own wishes both to find a ministerial post in Lusatia to serve Sorbs in their common language and to find a wife.

Origin

From German Sorbe.

 
 
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