sorrel

sorrel

See also: Sorrel

English

Rumex acetosa, a kind of sorrel

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈsɒɹəl/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈsɔɹəl/
• Rhymes: -ɒɹəl

Etymology 1

From Middle English sorel, from Old French sorel, surele (“sorrel”), from Old French sur (“sour”), of Germanic origin, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *sūraz (“sour”); equivalent to sour +‎ -el (diminutive suffix). Compare Old English sūre (“sorrel”), Icelandic súra (“sorrel”), Dutch zuring (“sorrel”). More at sour.

Noun

sorrel (countable and uncountable, plural sorrels)

1. Any of various plants with acidic leaves, especially
   1. Rumex acetosa (common sorrel, garden sorrel), sometimes used as a salad vegetable.
   2. Members of genus Oxalis or family Oxalidaceae, woodsorrels.
   3. The roselle, Hibiscus sabdariffa.
2. A drink, consumed especially in the Caribbean around Christmas, made from the flowers of Hibiscus sabdariffa: hibiscus tea.
   • 2007, African and Caribbean Celebrations, →ISBN, page 56:

     Now, many people drink alcohol, but when I was a child I remember drinking sorrel, ginger beer and drinks made from fresh fruits such as soursop and passion-fruit. Sorrel was prepared over a long period, not as quickly as it is now.

   • 2009, C. C. Alick, Dancing with the Yumawalli: Inspired by True Events, page 62:

     For instance, one day we were sitting on the porch, looking down at the lagoon and the yachts from all over the world. He was drinking ginger beer mixed with rum, and I was drinking sorrel. No rum. Out of nowhere, he proposed.

   • 2012, Claudette Beckford-Brady, Sweet Home, Jamaica, page 390:

     Joy and the parents did not go either; we spent a quiet day at home, eating roast chicken and stuffing with our own green-gungu rice and peas, and drinking sorrel.

Derived terms

Derived terms

• alpine sheep's sorrel (Rumex paucifolius)
• alpine sorrel (Oxyria digyna)
• buckler sorrel
• field sorrel (Rumex acetosella)
• French sorrel (Rumex scutatus)
• grassleaf sorrel (Rumex graminifolius)
• heartwing sorrel (Rumex hastatulus)
• Indian sorrel
• Jamaican sorrel (roselle, Hibiscus sabdariffa)
• Krause's sorrel (Rumex krausei)
• lavender sorrel (Oxalis barrelieri)
• leaf-shield sorrel (Rumex scutatus)
• maiden sorrel (Rumex arifolius)
• mountain sorrel (Oxyria digyna)
• narrow-leaved sorrel (Rumex acetosa)
• red sorrel (Rumex acetosella)
• redwood sorrel (Oxalis oregana)
• salt of sorrel
• scurvy-grass sorrel (Oxalis enneaphylla)
• sheep sorrel (Rumex acetosella)
• shield-leaf sorrel
• sorrel tree (Oxydendrum arboreum)
• tree sorrel (Averrhoa bilimbi)
• wood sorrel (Oxyria digyna)
• woodsorrel (Oxalis spp., also Oxalidaceae)

Translations

plant

Albanian: lëpjetë (sq) f Arabic: حُمَّاض بُسْتَانِيّ‎ m (ḥummāḍ bustāniyy) Armenian: ավելուկ (hy) (aveluk), թրթնջուկ (hy) (tʿrtʿnǰuk), թթվաշ (hy) (tʿtʿvaš) Bashkir: ҡуҙғалаҡ (quðğalaq) Belarusian: шча́ўе n (ščáŭje) Bulgarian: ки́селец (bg) m (kíselec) Chinese: Mandarin: 酸模 (zh) (suānmó) Czech: šťovík (cs) m Dutch: zurkel (nl), veldzuring (nl) f Estonian: oblikas Finnish: suolaheinä (fi) French: oseille (fr) f Galician: aceda (gl) f Georgian: მჟაუნა (mžauna) German: Ampfer (de) m, Sauerampfer (de) m Greek: λάπατο (el) n (lápato) Hungarian: sóska (hu) Italian: acetosa f, erba brusca f Japanese: 蓚 (ja) (スイバ, suiba), 酸い葉 (スイバ, suiba) Korean: 수영 (ko) (suyeong) Kurdish: Central Kurdish: ترۆشکە‎ (troşke), ترۆشک‎ (troşk) Northern Kurdish: tirşik (ku) Latin: rumex m or f Latvian: skābenes m Lithuanian: rūgštynė f, rūškynė f Luxembourgish: Sauerampel f Macedonian: шта́вел m (štável), ки́селец m (kíselec) Maori: horera Mazanderani: ترشه‎ (tërša) Navajo: chaatʼíní, chąątʼinii Norman: (Rumex acetosa) grand' suthelle f (Jersey) Norwegian: Bokmål: engsyre Old English: sūre f Ossetian: таффӕ (taffæ) Persian: ترشک درشت‎ (toršak e dorošt), ترشک‎ (fa) (toršak), ترشه‎ (torša) Polish: szczaw (pl) m Portuguese: azeda f, acetosa f Romanian: măcriș (ro) m, acriș (ro) n Russian: щаве́ль (ru) m (ščavélʹ), ща́вель (ru) m (ščávelʹ) (non-standard but common) Scots: sourock Scottish Gaelic: samh m Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: кисељак m Roman: kiseljak (sh) m Slovak: šťaveľ m Slovene: kislica (sl) f Spanish: acedera común, vinagrera (es) Svan: მუთჴვა̈̄რი (mutqvǟri) Swedish: ängssyra c Tagalog: kukuyuli Turkish: kuzu kulağı Ukrainian: ща́вель (uk) m (ščávelʹ) Welsh: suran m Yiddish: שטשאַוו‎ m (shtshav)

See also

• oxalic acid
• schav
• sourwood

Etymology 2

From Middle English *sorel, from Middle French *sorel, sorrel, surrel, from Middle French sor (“yellowish-brown, reddish-brown”), probably from Old Frankish *saur (“dried”), from Proto-Germanic *sauzaz (“dry”), from Proto-Indo-European *saus- (“dry, parched”); equivalent to sore (“reddish-brown”) +‎ -el (diminutive suffix). Cognate with Middle Dutch soor (“dry”), Old High German sōrēn (“to become dry”), and Old English sēar (“withered, barren”). See also sere.

Noun

sorrel (countable and uncountable, plural sorrels)

1. A brown colour, with a tint of red.

   sorrel:  

Translations

colour

Arabic: أَشْقَر‎ m (ʾašqar) French: alezan (fr) German: Fuchs (de) m (horse) Greek: καστανοκόκκινος n (kastanokókkinos), κοκκινόμαυρος (el) n (kokkinómavros) Italian: sauro (it) Japanese: 薄赤褐色 (うすせきかっしょく, ususekikasshoku) Navajo: łį́į́łtsoii (horse) Persian: شیده‎ (fa) (šide) Polish: gniady (pl) m Portuguese: canela (pt) m Spanish: alazán (es) m

Adjective

sorrel (not comparable)

1. Of a brown colour, with a tint of red. (especially: a sorrel horse)

Translations

colour

Bulgarian: дорест (dorest) Catalan: alatzà (ca) Greek: καστανοκόκκινος n (kastanokókkinos), κοκκινόμαυρος (el) n (kokkinómavros) Japanese: 薄赤褐色の (うすせきかっしょくの, ususekikasshoku no) Ottoman Turkish: قولا‎ (kula) Plautdietsch: rodlich Polish: gniady (pl) Portuguese: canela (pt), alazão (pt) Romanian: roib (ro)

See also

• Appendix:Colors

Further reading

• sorrel on Wikipedia.Wikipedia