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.
Similar words for soups exist in the cuisines of many Turkic peoples of Central Asia, Russia and the Caucasus, spelled variously, "shorba," "shorva," "shurbo," "shurpa," "sorpa" (Kazakh), and "shorpo" (Kyrgyz).
