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'''Chorba''' ({{Lang-tr|çorba}}, pronounced {{IPA-tr|tʃoɾˈba|}}) is one of various kinds of [[soup]] or [[stew]] found in national [[cuisine]]s across the [[Balkans]], [[North Africa]], [[Eastern Europe]], [[Central Asia]], [[South Asia]] and the [[Middle East]].

==Spelling variants==
''Chorba'' is derived from a [[Persian language|Persian]] term شوربا from ''shor'' ("salty, brackish") and ''ba'' ("stew").<ref name="Davidson2006">{{cite book|author=Alan Davidson|title=The Oxford Companion to Food|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pZ-1AQAAQBAJ&pg=PT2056|date=21 September 2006|publisher=OUP Oxford|isbn=978-0-19-101825-1|pages=2055–}}</ref>

Chorba is also called '''shorba''' ({{Lang-fa|شوربا}}),  ({{Lang-am|ሾርባ}}), '''[[shorwa]]''' ({{lang-ps|شوروا}}), '''[[ciorbă]]''' ({{Lang-ro|ciorbă}}), '''shurpa''' ({{Lang-ru|шурпа}}), '''shorpa''' ({{lang-ug|ug=شورپا, шорпа}}),'''Corba''' ([[Turkish language|Turkish]]:Çorba) '''shorpo''' ({{Lang-ky|шорпо}}), and '''sorpa''' ({{Lang-kk|сорпа}}).{{citation needed|date=July 2015}}  In [[South Asia]], the term '''shorba''' in Hindi ({{lang-hi|शोरबा}}) simply means [[gravy]], while in Urdu ({{lang-ur|شوربہ}}) it may mean either [[gravy]] or [[soup]].{{citation needed|date=July 2015}}

==Varieties==
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File:Begova Čorba (Baščaršija in Sarajevo, Bosnia).JPG|[[Bosnian cuisine|Bosnian]] čorba and somun bread
File:Ready kurban chorba.JPG|[[Bulgarian cuisine|Bulgarian]] chorba
File:Shorpo cooking in Kazan.jpg|Cooking [[Kyrgyz cuisine|Kyrgyz]] shorpo
File:Pileća corba.jpg|[[Serbian cuisine|Serbian]] čorba
File:Chorba.jpg|[[Algerian cuisine|Algerian]] Chorba
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==See also==
{{portal|Food}}
* [[List of soups]]
* [[List of stews]]

==References==
{{commons category|Shorpa}}
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