چوربا

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• չօրպա (çorba) — Armeno-Turkish

Etymology

From Classical Persian شوربا (šōrbā).

Noun

چوربا • (çorba)

1. soup

Related terms

• چورباجی (çorbacı)

Descendants

• Turkish: çorba
• → Armenian: չորբա (čʻorba), չորպա (čʻorpa)
• → Bulgarian: чорба́ (čorbá)
• → Georgian: ჩორბა (čorba)
• → Ladino: chorbá
• → Laz: ჩორბა (çorba)
• → Macedonian: чорба (čorba)
• → Gulf Arabic: شوربة
• → Moroccan Arabic: شوربة
• → South Levantine Arabic: شوربة
• → Romanian: ciorbă
• → Serbo-Croatian: čórba / чо́рба
• → Ukrainian: щерба́ (ščerbá)

References

• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “چوربا”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 478
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “چوربا”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 734