Chorba


Chorba or shorba is one of various kinds of soup or stew found in national cuisines across the Balkans, North Africa, Central Europe, Eastern Europe, Central Asia, Middle East and the Indian subcontinent.

Types

Chorba, shorba is variously derived from the Arabic word meaning gravy or from a Persian term شوربا from shor and ba/ab, آب، ما or from a hypothetical cognate word common to Arabic and Persian. Shorwa means "soup" in Persian/Pashto.
Chorba is also called shorba, sho'rva, shorwa, chorba, ciorbă, shurpa, shorpa, çorba, shorpo and sorpa. In the Indian subcontinent, the term shorba in Hindi simply means gravy. It is a Mughlai dish and it has vegetarian forms such as tomato shorba.

Varieties