ჩორბა

ჩორბა

Laz

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish چوربا‎ (çorba), from Persian شوربا‎ (šurbâ).

Noun

ჩორბა • (čorba) (Latin spelling çorba)

1. soup

   გჲარი ოჭკომუშე დიდოთენ იფთი ჩორბაში ოშუმუთენ გეიჭქენ

   gyari oč̣ḳomuše didoten ipti čorbaši ošumuten geič̣ken

   Eating often begins with a soup first

Further reading

• Kojima, Gôichi (2012–), “çorba”, in Temel Lazca-Türkçe Sözlük Taslağı (in Turkish)
• Марр, Н. (1910), “ჩორბა”, in Грамматика чанского (лазского) языка с хрестоматией и словарем [Grammar of the Chan (Laz) Language with a Reader and a Dictionary] (Материалы по яфетическому языкознанию; 2) (in Russian), Saint Petersburg: Academy Press, page 221b
• Tandilava, Ali (2013), “ჩორბა”, in Merab Čuxua, Natela Kutelia, Lile Tandilava, Lali Ezugbaia, editors, Lazuri leksiḳoni [Laz Dictionary], online version prepared by Levan Vašaḳiʒe, Tbilisi