tarhonya
English
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

tarhonya
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
Declension
| Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony) | ||
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| Possessive forms of tarhonya | ||
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
See also
tarhonya on the Hungarian Wikipedia.Wikipedia hu
Further reading
- tarhonya in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
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