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- noun
Wine , or other alcoholic drinks.
Etymologies
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Examples
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You know my grandparents were once having Kaanji its a reddish colored drink made of mustard seeds, beet and carrots on their terrace and the neighborhood people thought that they were drinking sharab in broad daylight.
Kutchi Beer Meera 2008
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This kind of preparation was first refined in 17th-century Italy, which gave us the term sorbet via sorbetto from the Arabic sharab, or “syrup”.
On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004
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This kind of preparation was first refined in 17th-century Italy, which gave us the term sorbet via sorbetto from the Arabic sharab, or “syrup”.
On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004
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Formerly he had carried the mail through the desert, a fine rider and brave man, but _sharab_ [1] had loosened the thigh in the saddle and palsied hand and eye.
Driftwood Spars The Stories of a Man, a Boy, a Woman, and Certain Other People Who Strangely Met Upon the Sea of Life Percival Christopher Wren 1913
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A pint, or a pint and a half, of my blood, would earn for him Paradise, with sharab, houris, and all the rest of it.
Twenty-One Days in India; and, the Teapot Series George Robert Aberigh-Mackay 1864
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Isaiah (xxxv. 7) where the passage should be rendered "And the mirage (sharab) shall become a lake" (not, "and the parched ground shall become a pool").
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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As the DJ put on a hit Punjabi song †"Koi ve gulab aakhda, koi ve sharab aakhda, ke mundke kende ladoo bantne â€" the people in the funeral procession, of all age groups, broke into cheers and dance.
The Times of India 2010
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"He shot at his captain sahib on the parade-ground - they say he was drunk with sharab or bhang, and called on the sepoys to rise against their officers. 21 What do I know?
Fiancée 2010
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_sharab_ called '_Whisky_' and of dogs; he drank smoke from the cheroot after the fashion of the Sahib-log and not from the hookah nor the
Driftwood Spars The Stories of a Man, a Boy, a Woman, and Certain Other People Who Strangely Met Upon the Sea of Life Percival Christopher Wren 1913
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"Did you know that he used to drink sharab back then, that he was crying drunk that day?
A Thousand Splendid Suns Hosseini, Khaled 2007
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