sorb1
/sɔːb
/noun
The fruit of the true service tree.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
Sorb2
/sɔːb/noun
A member of a Slavic people living in parts of SE Brandenburg and eastern Saxony. Also called Wend.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.
- Sorbs were repeatedly forbidden to use their own language.
Origin
From German Sorbe.