Chorba

Chorba
Type Soup or stew
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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, 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 (Uyghur: شورپا), shorpo (Kyrgyz: шорпо), and sorpa (Kazakh: сорпа). In South Asia, the term shorba (Urdu: شوربہ, Hindi: शोरबा) simply means gravy.

Varieties

See also

References

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  1. Alan Davidson (21 September 2006). The Oxford Companion to Food. OUP Oxford. pp. 2055–. ISBN 978-0-19-101825-1.
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