tarhana
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See also: trahana
English[edit]
Noun[edit]
tarhana (countable and uncountable, plural tarhanas)
- A dried food based on a fermented mixture of grain and yogurt or fermented milk, usually made into a thick soup with water, stock, or milk.
Translations[edit]
dried food
Anagrams[edit]
Turkish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Ottoman Turkish تارخانه (tarhana), from Persian ترخوانه (tarxvâne), compound of تر (tar, “moist”) and خوان (xvân, “table”).
Noun[edit]
tarhana (definite accusative tarhanayı, plural tarhanalar)
- A dried food based on a fermented mixture of grain and yogurt or fermented milk, usually made into a thick soup with water, stock, or milk.
Declension[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- “tarhana”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “tarhana”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890), “تارخانه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 475