tarhonya

English

Etymology

Hungarian tarhonya. Doublet of tarhana.

Noun

tarhonya (uncountable)

1. 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

Noun

tarhonya (plural tarhonyák)

1. a traditional Hungarian egg-based pasta grain

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

Descendants

• → Czech: tarhoňa
• → English: tarhonya

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