Chorba
Template:Refimprove Template:Infobox prepared food Chorba (Template:Lang-tr, pronounced Template:IPA-tr) 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").<ref name="Davidson2006">Template:Cite book</ref>
Chorba is also called shorba (Template:Lang-fa), (Template:Lang-am), shorwa (Template:Lang-ps), ciorbă (Template:Lang-ro), shurpa (Template:Lang-ru), shorpa (Template:Lang-ug),Corba (Turkish:Çorba) shorpo (Template:Lang-ky), and sorpa (Template:Lang-kk).Template:Citation needed In South Asia, the term shorba in Hindi (Template:Lang-hi) simply means gravy, while in Urdu (Template:Lang-ur) it may mean either gravy or soup.Template:Citation needed
Varieties
- Begova Čorba (Baščaršija in Sarajevo, Bosnia).JPG
Bosnian čorba and somun bread
- Ready kurban chorba.JPG
Bulgarian chorba
- Shorpo cooking in Kazan.jpg
Cooking Kyrgyz shorpo
- Pileća corba.jpg
Serbian čorba
- Chorba.jpg
Algerian Chorba
