Ciorbă (ˈt͡ʃorbə), from Persian

Persian language

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, via the Turkish

Turkish language

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 word çorba

Çorba

Chorba , ciorbă , shurpa , shorpo , or sorpa is one of various kinds of soup or stew found in national cuisines across Middle East...

is a general Romanian

Romanian language

Romanian Romanian Romanian (or Daco-Romanian; obsolete spellings Rumanian, Roumanian; self-designation: română, limba română ("the Romanian language") or românește (lit. "in Romanian") is a Romance language spoken by around 24 to 28 million people, primarily in Romania and Moldova...

 word describing sour soup

Sour soup

Sour soup refers to various soups in a number of national cuisines. The name reflects its distinctive feature: sour taste. Often a sour soup has a specific national name...

s consisting of various vegetables and meat. Most Romanians differentiate between "supă" (soup) and "ciorbă" by the fact that soup has no added acid and is most of the times clear (there's only one exception), while ciorbă may contain a wide variety of sour ingredients, usually lemon

Lemon

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s, borş (fermented wheat bran) or "zeamă de varză acră" (Sauerkraut

Sauerkraut

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 juice). Lovage

Lovage

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 is a frequent addition.

Different types of ciorbă include:

• Ciorbă de burtă (tripe
  Tripe
  Tripe is a type of edible offal from the stomachs of various farm animals.-Beef tripe:...
  
   soup) see also shkembe
• ciorbă de ciocănele (soup from pig legs)
• Ciorbă de perisoare (meatball
  Meatball
  A meatball is made from an amount of ground meat rolled into a small ball, sometimes along with other ingredients, such as breadcrumbs, minced onion, spices, and possibly eggs...
  
  soup)
• Ciorbă de peste (fish soup)
• Ciorbă de oase (bones soup)
• Ciorbă de vacuţa (beef soup)
• Ciorbă de pui (chicken soup)
• Ciorbă de cartofi (potatoes soup)