Chorba
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Chorba (Turkish: çorba, pronounced [tʃoɾˈba]) is one of various kinds of soup or stew found in national cuisines across the Balkans, North Africa, Eastern Europe, Central Asia, South Asia and the Middle East.
Spelling variants
Chorba is derived from a Persian term شوربا from shor ("salty, brackish") and ba ("stew").[1]
Chorba is also called shorba (Persian: شوربا), (Amharic: ሾርባ), shorwa (Pashto: شوروا), ciorbă (Romanian: ciorbă), shurpa (Russian: шурпа), shorpa ([undefined] Error: {{Lang-xx}}: no text (help)),Corba (Turkish:Çorba) shorpo (Kyrgyz: шорпо), and sorpa (Kazakh: сорпа).[citation needed] In South Asia, the term shorba in Hindi (Hindi: शोरबा) simply means gravy, while in Urdu (Urdu: شوربہ) it may mean either gravy or soup.[citation needed]
Varieties
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See also
References
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- ^ Alan Davidson (21 September 2006). The Oxford Companion to Food. OUP Oxford. pp. 2055–. ISBN 978-0-19-101825-1.
