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, similar to borscht.
In Greek cuisine
In Jewish cuisine as tschorba or tchorba
In Serbian cuisine: "Čorba" (Чорба)

Similar words for soups exist in many cuisines of Turkic peoples of Central Asia, Russia and Caucasus, spelled variously, "shorba," "shorva," "shurbo," or "shurpa."