[david-gpu]

In Spain, "chorba" is very informal slang for "gal" [0]. Not vulgar, just very informal vernacular.

[0] https://dle.rae.es/chorbo

[woadwarrior01]

Chorba is also soup in Eastern European languages like Bulgarian and Romanian.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chorba

[nz]

And also in Turkey. It (the word, if not the stew itself) arrived to the Balkans by way of the Ottomans. (And having just now clicked through to the link, it seems to have arrived to Turkey by way of the Persians).

[nzeid]

All this talk of soup making me wonder if these are Arabic/ME derivatives.

Then again there are like 10 different ways to refer to soup in the various dialects.

[wongarsu]

The wikipedia article traces it to Persian, which formed it as a compound of words from different East Iranian languages. So you are on the money with Middle Eastern. From there it spread to the Balkan via Ottoman Turkish, and also from Persian to dialectal Arabic, which would explain the occurrences in Northern Africa, and maybe even Spain

[SalimoS]

and is a traditional Tunisian soup

/Edit: actually in all North Africa https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chorba

[rurban]

In Europe this guy stands for vulgar and racist neofascism

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