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david-gpu • yesterday at 9:13 PM • 4 replies • view on HN

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

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

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woadwarrior01 • yesterday at 9:24 PM

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

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

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SalimoS • yesterday at 9:19 PM

and is a traditional Tunisian soup

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

nzeid • yesterday at 10:42 PM

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.

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rurban • today at 12:12 AM

In Europe this guy stands for vulgar and racist neofascism

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