tarka

• tadka

Borrowed from Hindustani तड़का / تڑکا (taṛkā).

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɑː(ɹ)kə/

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tarka (uncountable)

1. (South Asia, cooking) Heated oil or ghee in which spices and onion, etc. are well-stirred and browned.

• Katar, karat, katar, rak'at

tarka

1. partitive singular of tark
2. illative singular of tark

From the dialectal tar (“variegated”) +‎ -ka (diminutive suffix).^[1]

• IPA^(key): [ˈtɒrkɒ]
• Hyphenation: tar‧ka
• Rhymes: -kɒ

tarka (comparative tarkább, superlative legtarkább)

1. variegated

   Antonym: egyszínű

• tarka 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.

Borrowed from Sicilian tarca, variant of targa, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *targǭ.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtar.ka/

tarka f (plural tarek or tarki)

1. shield

• IPA^(key): [ˈtɐrkɐ]

tarka

1. bone
2. stem, stalk

• 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”)

• IPA^(key): /ˈtar.ka/

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• Rhymes: -arka
• Syllabification: tar‧ka

Inherited from Old Polish tarka, from Proto-Slavic *tьrka. By surface analysis, trzeć +‎ -ka.

tarka f

1. washboard (board used to hand wash laundry)

   Synonym: tara

2. washboard (percussion instrument)
3. grater (tool with which one grates)
4. (malacology) radula

From tarń +‎ -ka.

tarka f

1. blackthorn (Prunus spinosa)

   Synonyms: śliwa tarnina, tarnina, tarń

2. sloe (fruit of the blackthorn, Prunus spinosa)

   Synonyms: ciarka, cierniówka, tarnina

• tárka (Przemyśl)

• tarka in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• tarka in Polish dictionaries at PWN