Sherbet is a fizzy, sweet powder, usually eaten by dipping a lollipop or liquorice, using a small spoon, or licking it from a finger.
Jars of colourful Kali in a sweetshop
German Brausepulver is similar, and while originally sold as such, is often not mixed with water nowadays, but eaten by children by dipping a wet finger into it, or by grown-ups in combination with vodka.
Sherbet lemons
Sharbat is a drink prepared from fruit or flower petals. It is a sweet cordial, and usually served chilled. It can be served in concentrated form and eaten with a spoon or diluted with water to create the drink.
Two kinds of Iranian sharbat (center is lemon and right is cherry sharbat) along with Iranian tea (left)
Rooh Afza sharbat or shorbot drink made from fruit and herbs formulated in 1906 in Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, India, and launched from Old Delhi, India
Tamarind and plum sharbat
Bael ka sharbat