šūrbaẗ شُورْبَة , var. šurbaẗ شُرْبَة (eg.), šorbaẗ , šōrabaẗ (syr.), pl. ‑āt
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Etymologically not related to (though often considered to be derived from) ↗šariba ‘to drink’, but either directly, or indirectly via Tu çorba ‘soup’, from Pers šorbā ‘meat stock, soup’, itself composed of šor ‘salt, salty’ and suffix ‑bā , indicating how s.th. (a meal) is prepared.
▪ The Tu word is first attested as šorbā in Muḳaddimetü ’l-ʔEdeb (<1300). As çorba first in Filippo Argenti, Regola del Parlare Turco (1533) – Nişanyan.
▪ EALL (S. Procházka, »Turkish Loanwords«): from Tu çorba ‘soup’.
▪ Nişanyan: modTu çorba < OttTu şorbā < Pers šōrbā, composed of šōr ‘1 salt, salty, 2 turbid, dim, mixed, troubled, confounded’ + bā (v. for bād), a kind of gruel or other species of spoon-meat; kind of soup.
▪ Rolland2014: From Pers šorbā ‘meat stock, soup’.
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