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Chorba (Turkish: çorba pronounced [tʃoɾˈba]) also called shorba (Persian: شوربا) shorwa (Pashto: شوروا ) ciorbă (Romanian: ciorbă) shurpa (Russian: шурпа) shorpa (Uyghur: شورپا) shorpo (Kyrgyz: шорпо) and sorpa (Kazakh: сорпа) is one of various kinds of soup or stew found in national cuisines across the Balkans Eastern Europe Central Asia and the Middle East. In South Asia the term shorba (Urdu: شوربہ Hindi: शोरबा) simply means gravy.