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Zorba may refer to:

  • Zorba the Greek, a 1946 novel by the Greek author Nikos Kazantzakis, about George Zorbas (Alexis Zorbas)
    • Zorba the Greek (film), a 1964 movie based on the novel
    • Zorba (musical), a musical based on the novel and film
    • Zorbas, a song by Mikis Theodorakis featured in the film
  • Zorba the Buddha, a Rajneesh concept owing in part to the Kazantzakis novel character
  • Zorba (Mastiff), world's largest dog, now deceased
  • Zorba (comics), a fictional character from Marvel Comics
  • Zorba Paster, physician and public radio personality
  • Zorba (bible study), a translator of the New Testament from Aramaic to Greek, postulated by advocates of Aramaic primacy
  • Zorba (XQuery processor), an open source implementation of the XQuery query/programming language
  • Zorba the Hutt, a Star Wars expanded universe character
  • Sorik, a town in Armenia formerly called Zorba
  • a nickname of Peter Metropolis (born 1944), an Australian rules football player and administrator
  • shredded, non-ferrous scrap metal
  • Zorba (computer), a 1983 CP/M-based portable computer
Zorba (dog)

Aicama Zorba of La-Susa or Zorba (26 September 1981 - Unknown ) was a male Old English Mastiff who was recognized by Guinness World Records as the heaviest and longest dog in the world.

Zorba (musical)

Zorba is a musical with a book by Joseph Stein, lyrics by Fred Ebb, and music by John Kander. Adapted from the 1952 novel Zorba the Greek by Nikos Kazantzakis and the subsequent 1964 film of the same name, it focuses on the friendship that evolves between Zorba and Nikos, a young American who has inherited an abandoned mine on Crete, and their romantic relationships with a local widow and a French woman, respectively.

The musical premiered on Broadway in 1968 in a production directed by Harold Prince. It was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Musical in a season that included Hair, Promises, Promises and 1776. The last of these won the award. The original production ran for 305 performances, but a 1983 Broadway revival ran for 362 performances with a cast starring Anthony Quinn.

Zorba (comics)
  1. Redirect List of Marvel Comics characters: Z#Zorba

Category:Comics characters introduced in 1987 Category:Characters created by Marv Wolfman Category:Latverians Category:Fictional princes Category:Fictional cyborgs Category:Marvel Comics martial artists

Zorba (XQuery processor)

Zorba is an open source query processor written in C++, implementing

  • several W3C XQuery and XML specifications and
  • the JSONiq language for processing JSON data.

Zorba is distributed under Apache License, Version 2.0. The project is mainly supported by the FLWOR Foundation, Oracle, and 28msec.

Zorba (computer)

The Zorba was a portable computer running the CP/M operating system manufactured in 1983 and 1984. It was originally manufactured by Telcon Industries of Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, a company specialized in telecomunication equipment manufacturing.

The Zorba was one of the last CP/M computers on the market. By the time it was introduced, the Kaypro and Osborne machines already dominated that market. The introduction of the Compaq Portable, compatible with the IBM PC and running MS/DOS, sealed the fate of the CP/M machines.