sherry

sherry

See also: Sherry

English

Etymology

Back-formation of earlier sherris (interpreted as a plural), from Spanish (vino de) Xeres (“wine of Xeres”), Xeres being the former spelling of Jerez (pronounced /ʃeˈɾes/ in early modern Andalusian Spanish).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈʃɛɹi/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -ɛɹi

Noun

sherry (usually uncountable, plural sherries)

1. (uncountable) A fortified wine produced in Jerez de la Frontera in Spain, or a similar wine produced elsewhere.
   • 1956, Delano Ames, chapter 14, in Crime out of Mind‎:

     He gazed around until on the lid of a spinet he spotted a promising collection of bottles, gin, whiskey, vermouth and sherry, mixed with violin bows, a flute, a toppling pile of books, six volumes of Grove's Dictionary mingled with paperback thrillers, a guitar without any strings, a pair of binoculars, a meerschaum pipe and a jar half-full of wasps and apricot jam.

2. A variety of sherry.

   They produce several quality sherries.

3. A glass of sherry.

   Would you like a sherry?

Coordinate terms

• Madeira
• Marsala

Derived terms

• cooking sherry
• sherried (adj)
• sherrylike
• sherry vinegar
• washing sherry

Descendants

• → Czech: šery, sherry
• → German: Sherry
• → Finnish: sherry
• → French: sherry
• → Italian: sherry
• → Japanese: シェリー (sherī)
• → Polish: sherry
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Latin: šeri

  Cyrillic: шери

Translations

fortified wine

Arabic: شِيرِي‎ (širī), خَمْرَة‎ f (ḵamra) Asturian: xerez m Bulgarian: шери n (šeri), херес m (heres) Catalan: xerès m Chinese: Cantonese: 雪利酒 (syut3 lei6 zau2) Mandarin: 雪利酒 (zh) (xuělì-jiǔ), 雪莉酒 (xuělì jiǔ) (Taiwan) Czech: šery, sherry Finnish: sherry (fi) French: xérès (fr) m, jerez (fr) m Galician: xerez (gl) m German: Sherry (de) m Italian: sherry m, xeres m Japanese: シェリー (sherī), シェリー酒 (sherī-shu) Korean: 셰리 (syeri), 셰리 주 (syeri ju) Malay: syeri Maori: hēri Polish: sherry (pl) n Portuguese: xerez (pt) m Russian: хе́рес (ru) m (xéres), ше́рри (ru) m (šérri) (sometimes) Serbo-Croatian: šeri (sh) m Spanish: jerez (es) m Tagalog: heres Volapük: järid

variety of sherry

Czech: šery, sherry Finnish: sherry (fi) French: xérès (fr) m, jerez (fr) m Italian: sherry m Malay: syeri Russian: хе́рес (ru) m (xéres) Serbo-Croatian: šeri (sh) m Spanish: jerez (es) m Volapük: järid

glass of sherry

Czech: šery, sherry Finnish: sherrylasi French: xérès (fr) m, verre (fr) m de xérès, verre de jerez Italian: bicchiere m di sherry Malay: syeri Spanish: vaso m de jerez

See also

• amontillado

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Czech

Noun

sherry n

1. sherry (fortified wine)
2. sherry (variety of sherry)
3. sherry (glass of sherry)

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Finnish

Etymology

From English sherry.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈʃeri/, [ˈʃe̞ri]
• IPA^(key): /ˈʃerːy/, [ˈʃe̞rːy]
• Syllabification^(key): sher‧ry

Noun

sherry

1. sherry

Declension

Inflection of sherry (Kotus type 1/valo, no gradation)
nominative		sherry	sherryt
genitive		sherryn	sherryjen
partitive		sherryä	sherryjä
illative		sherryyn	sherryihin
		singular	plural
nominative		sherry	sherryt
accusative	nom.	sherry	sherryt
	gen.	sherryn
genitive		sherryn	sherryjen
partitive		sherryä	sherryjä
inessive		sherryssä	sherryissä
elative		sherrystä	sherryistä
illative		sherryyn	sherryihin
adessive		sherryllä	sherryillä
ablative		sherryltä	sherryiltä
allative		sherrylle	sherryille
essive		sherrynä	sherryinä
translative		sherryksi	sherryiksi
instructive		—	sherryin
abessive		sherryttä	sherryittä
comitative		—	sherryineen

Possessive forms of sherry (type valo)
possessor	singular	plural
1st person	sherryni	sherrymme
2nd person	sherrysi	sherrynne
3rd person	sherrynsä

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French

Noun

sherry m (plural sherrys)

1. sherry

Further reading

• “sherry”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Italian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English sherry.

Noun

sherry m (invariable)

1. sherry

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Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from English sherry, from Spanish Xeres, Xeres being the former name of Jerez.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈʂɛ.rɨ/

• Audio

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɛrɨ
• Syllabification: she‧rry

Noun

sherry n (indeclinable)

1. sherry (fortified wine)

Further reading

• sherry in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• sherry in Polish dictionaries at PWN