tarka
See also: tarką
English
Alternative forms
- tadka
Etymology
Borrowed from Hindustani तड़का / تڑکا (taṛkā), Punjabi ਤੜਕਾ (taṛkā).
Noun
tarka (uncountable)
- (South Asia, cooking) Heated oil or ghee in which spices and onion, etc. are well-stirred and browned.
Translations
method of tempering spices in hot oil
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Anagrams
- Katar, karat, katar, rak'at
Estonian
Adjective
tarka
- partitive singular of tark
- illative singular of tark
Hungarian
Etymology
From the dialectal tar (“variegated”) + -ka (diminutive suffix).[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈtɒrkɒ]
- Hyphenation: tar‧ka
- Rhymes: -kɒ
Adjective
tarka (comparative tarkább, superlative legtarkább)
- variegated
- Antonym: egyszínű
Declension
| Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony) | ||
|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | |
| nominative | tarka | tarkák |
| accusative | tarkát | tarkákat |
| dative | tarkának | tarkáknak |
| instrumental | tarkával | tarkákkal |
| causal-final | tarkáért | tarkákért |
| translative | tarkává | tarkákká |
| terminative | tarkáig | tarkákig |
| essive-formal | tarkaként | tarkákként |
| essive-modal | — | — |
| inessive | tarkában | tarkákban |
| superessive | tarkán | tarkákon |
| adessive | tarkánál | tarkáknál |
| illative | tarkába | tarkákba |
| sublative | tarkára | tarkákra |
| allative | tarkához | tarkákhoz |
| elative | tarkából | tarkákból |
| delative | tarkáról | tarkákról |
| ablative | tarkától | tarkáktól |
| non-attributive possessive - singular | tarkáé | tarkáké |
| non-attributive possessive - plural | tarkáéi | tarkákéi |
Derived terms
- tarkabarka
- tarkaság
- tarkállik
- tarkít
Compound words
- tarkalepke
References
- tarka in Zaicz, Gábor (ed.). Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (‘Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, →ISBN. (See also its 2nd edition.)
Further reading
- tarka in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
Maltese
Etymology
Borrowed from Sicilian tarca, variant of targa, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *targǭ.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈtar.ka/
Noun
tarka f (plural tarek or tarki)
- shield
Derived terms
- tarkier
Pitjantjatjara
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈtɐrkɐ]
Noun
tarka
- bone
- stem, stalk
Derived terms
- nganaṉṯarka (“kin, relations”)
- tarkaṉi (“to cut to the bone, to cut to the quick”)
- tarkauḻṯu (“native millet (Panicum decompositum, Australian millet)”)
- tarka-tarka (“bony, skinny”)
Polish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈtar.ka/
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -arka
- Syllabification: tar‧ka
Etymology 1
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *tьrka. By surface analysis, trzeć + -ka.
Noun
tarka f
- washboard (board used to hand wash laundry)
- Synonym: tara
- washboard (percussion instrument)
- grater (tool with which one grates)
- (malacology) radula
Derived terms
verb
- tarkować impf
Related terms
nouns
- tarło
- tor
verb
- trzeć impf
Etymology 2
From tarń + -ka.
Noun
tarka f
- blackthorn (Prunus spinosa)
- Synonyms: śliwa tarnina, tarnina, tarń
- sloe (fruit of the blackthorn, Prunus spinosa)
- Synonyms: ciarka, cierniówka, tarnina
Declension
Declension of tarka
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | tarka | tarki |
| genitive | tarki | tarek |
| dative | tarce | tarkom |
| accusative | tarkę | tarki |
| instrumental | tarką | tarkami |
| locative | tarce | tarkach |
| vocative | tarko | tarki |
Related terms
adjectives
- tarninowy
- tarniowy
nouns
- tarnina
- tarniówka
- tarnka
- tarń
Further reading
- tarka in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- tarka in Polish dictionaries at PWN