- Sorb
- 1836 (implied in Sorbian), from German Sorbe, from Slavic Serb, the national designation. Slavic people surviving in Lusatia, eastern Saxony, also known as Wends.
- sorb (n.)
- "fruit of the service tree," 1520s, from French sorbe, from Latin sorbum "service-berry" (small, edible fruit of the European mountain ash), from sorbus, from PIE root *sor-/*ser- "red, reddish-brown."