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chorba

/ʃoɹ.ba/

chorba noun: stews or rich soups found in national cuisines across the Middle East, Maghreb, Iran, Turkey, Southeast Europe, Central Asia, East Africa and South Asia.

Noun

chorba (plural chorbas)

  1. stews or rich soups found in national cuisines across the Middle East, Maghreb, Iran, Turkey, Southeast Europe, Central Asia, East Africa and South Asia

Proper noun capitalized: Chorba

Chorba (plural Chorbas)

  1. A surname from Hungarian.

Forms of chorba

Noun
pluralchorbas
alternative formshorba
Proper noun
pluralChorbas

Origin of chorba

From Ottoman Turkish چوربا (çorba) and/or Classical Persian شورْبَا (šōrbā) or شورْبَاه (šōrbāh).

Altered spelling of Hungarian Csorba, from csorba (“gap-toothed”). Also Americanized from Slovak and Serbo-Croatian Čorba, from the noun čorba (“soup, chowder”).

Words that rhyme with chorba

Questions about chorba

What does chorba mean?
Chorba means stews or rich soups found in national cuisines across the Middle East, Maghreb, Iran, Turkey, Southeast Europe, Central Asia, East Africa and South Asia.
What part of speech is chorba?
Chorba can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce chorba?
Chorba is pronounced /ʃoɹ.ba/.
What is the plural of chorba?
The plural of chorba is chorbas.

Words near chorba in the dictionary

  1. chorangiomatosis
  2. chorangiosis
  3. Chorasmia
  4. Chorasmian
  5. Chorasmians
  6. chorba
  7. Chorbajian
  8. Chorbajians
  9. Chorbas
  10. chord
  11. chord change

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