Laz edit

Etymology edit

From Ottoman Turkish چوربا (çorba), from Persian شوربا (šurbâ).

Noun edit

ჩორბა (çorba) (Latin spelling çorba)

  1. soup
    გჲარი ოჭკომუშე დიდოთენ იფთი ჩორბაში ოშუმუთენ გეიჭქენ
    gyari oç̌ǩomuşe didoten ipti çorbaşi oşumuten geiç̌ken
    Eating often begins with a soup first

Further reading edit

  • Kojima, Gôichi (2012–) “çorba”, in Temel Lazca-Türkçe Sözlük Taslağı[1] (in Turkish)
  • Marr, N. (1910) “ჩორბა”, in Грамматика чанского (лазского) языка с хрестоматией и словарем [Grammar of the Chan (Laz) Language with a Reader and a Dictionary] (Материалы по яфетическому языкознанию; 2) (in Russian), Saint Petersburg: Academy Press, page 221b
  • Tandilava, Ali (2013) “ჩორბა”, in Merab Čuxua, Natela Kutelia, Lile Tandilava, Lali Ezugbaia, editors, Lazuri leksiḳoni [Laz Dictionary]‎[2], online version prepared by Levan Vašaḳiʒe, Tbilisi