Çorba
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Çorba (transliterated as chorba) is a Turkish soup or stew. The word entered into a number of national cuisines of various peoples under the rule of the Ottoman Empire, often in varying meanings.
- Chorba (Чорба), a Bulgarian soup; see, e.g., Schkembe chorba
- Ciorbă, a Romanian beef-vegetable soup.
- In Greek cuisine
- In Jewish cuisine as tschorba or tchorba
- In Serbian cuisine: "Čorba" (Чорба)
Similar words for soups exist in the cuisines of many Turkic peoples of Central Asia, Russia and the Caucasus, spelled variously, "shorba," "shorva," "shurbo," "shurpa," "sorpa" (Kazakh), and "shorpo" (Kyrgyz).
