tarka

See also: tarką

English

Alternative forms

• tadka

Etymology

Borrowed from Hindustani तड़का / تڑکا (taṛkā), Punjabi ਤੜਕਾ (taṛkā).

Noun

tarka (uncountable)

1. (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

• Bengali: বাগার (bagar), ফোড়ন (phōṛon)
• Caribbean Hindustani: chunkay, chaunkay
• Gujarati: વઘાર (vaghār)
• Hindi: तड़का (hi) (taṛkā), छौंक (cha͠uk)
• Kannada: ಒಗ್ಗರಣೆ (kn) (oggaraṇe)
• Konkani: फोण्ण (phoṇṇa)
• Malayalam: താളിപ്പ് (tāḷippŭ)
• Marathi: फोडणी (phoḍṇī)
• Oriya: ବଘାର (baghāra), ଛୁଙ୍କ (or) (chuṅka)
• Punjabi: ਤੜਕਾ (pa) (taṛkā)
• Tamil: தாளிப்பு (ta) (tāḷippu), தாளித்தல் (ta) (tāḷittal)
• Telugu: పోపు (te) (pōpu), తాళింపు (te) (tāḷimpu)
• Urdu: تڑکا, بگھار

Anagrams

• Katar, karat, katar, rak'at

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Estonian

Adjective

tarka

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

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Hungarian

Etymology

From the dialectal tar (“variegated”) +‎ -ka (diminutive suffix).

Pronunciation

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

Adjective

tarka (comparative tarkább, superlative legtarkább)

1. 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

 

Further reading

• tarka 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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Maltese

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtar.ka/

Noun

tarka f (plural tarek or tarki)

1. shield

Derived terms

• tarkier

 

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Pitjantjatjara

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈtɐrkɐ]

Noun

tarka

1. bone
2. stem, stalk

Derived terms

• nganaṉṯarka (“kin, relations”)
• tarkaṉi (“to cut to the bone, to cut to the quick”)
• tarkauḻṯu (“native millet (, Australian millet)”)
• tarka-tarka (“bony, skinny”)

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Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtar.ka/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -arka
• Syllabification: tar‧ka

Etymology 1

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

Noun

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

Derived terms

verb

• tarkować impf

 

Related terms

nouns

• tarło
• tor

 

verb

• trzeć impf

 

Etymology 2

From tarń +‎ -ka.

Noun

tarka f

1. blackthorn (Prunus spinosa)

   Synonyms: śliwa tarnina, tarnina, tarń

2. 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