tarhonya
English
Etymology
From Hungarian tarhonya. Doublet of tarhana.
Noun
tarhonya (uncountable)
- A kind of egg-based pasta in the shape of small balls.
- 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 807:
- chocolates, coffee, biscuits, tinned sausages, wine, boxes of dried noodles of various shapes and sizes, a white cloth bag of tarhonya from the previous century.
Hungarian
Etymology
Circa 1600, from Ottoman Turkish تارخانه (tarhana), from Persian ترخانه (tarxâne, “tarhana”), from تر (tar, “wet”) + خوان (xwân, “food, tablecloth, dining table”). The modern Turkish spelling is tarhana.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈtɒrɦoɲɒ]
- Hyphenation: tar‧ho‧nya
- Rhymes: -ɲɒ
Noun
tarhonya (plural tarhonyák)
Declension
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | tarhonya | tarhonyák |
| accusative | tarhonyát | tarhonyákat |
| dative | tarhonyának | tarhonyáknak |
| instrumental | tarhonyával | tarhonyákkal |
| causal-final | tarhonyáért | tarhonyákért |
| translative | tarhonyává | tarhonyákká |
| terminative | tarhonyáig | tarhonyákig |
| essive-formal | tarhonyaként | tarhonyákként |
| essive-modal | — | — |
| inessive | tarhonyában | tarhonyákban |
| superessive | tarhonyán | tarhonyákon |
| adessive | tarhonyánál | tarhonyáknál |
| illative | tarhonyába | tarhonyákba |
| sublative | tarhonyára | tarhonyákra |
| allative | tarhonyához | tarhonyákhoz |
| elative | tarhonyából | tarhonyákból |
| delative | tarhonyáról | tarhonyákról |
| ablative | tarhonyától | tarhonyáktól |
| non-attributive possessive – singular |
tarhonyáé | tarhonyáké |
| non-attributive possessive – plural |
tarhonyáéi | tarhonyákéi |
| possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
|---|---|---|
| 1st person sing. | tarhonyám | tarhonyáim |
| 2nd person sing. | tarhonyád | tarhonyáid |
| 3rd person sing. | tarhonyája | tarhonyái |
| 1st person plural | tarhonyánk | tarhonyáink |
| 2nd person plural | tarhonyátok | tarhonyáitok |
| 3rd person plural | tarhonyájuk | tarhonyáik |
Descendants
See also
- tarhonya on the Hungarian Wikipedia.Wikipedia hu
Further reading
- tarhonya in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.