tarka

See also: tárka and tarką

English

Alternative forms

• tadka

Etymology

Borrowed from Hindustani तड़का / تڑکا (taṛkā).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɑː(ɹ)kə/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

tarka (uncountable)

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

Derived terms

• tarka dal

Translations

method of tempering spices in hot oil

• Bengali: বাগার (bn) (bagar), ফোড়ন (bn) (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)
• Odia: 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

Estonian

Adjective

tarka

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

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

Compound words

• tarkalepke

Further reading

• 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.

Maltese

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtar.ka/
• Rhymes: -arka

Noun

tarka f (plural tarek or tarki)

1. shield

Derived terms

• tarkier

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 (Panicum decompositum, Australian millet)”)
• tarka-tarka (“bony, skinny”)

Polish

tarka

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtar.ka/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -arka
• Syllabification: tar‧ka

Etymology 1

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *terh₁-

Proto-Balto-Slavic *térˀtei

Proto-Slavic *tèrti

Proto-Indo-European *-keh₂

Proto-Balto-Slavic *-kāˀder.

Proto-Slavic *-ъka

Proto-Slavic *tьrka

Old Polish tarka

Polish tarka

Inherited from Old Polish tarka. 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

Etymology tree

Polish tarń

Proto-Indo-European *-keh₂

Proto-Balto-Slavic *-kāˀder.

Proto-Slavic *-ъka

Old Polish -ka

Polish -ka

Polish tarka

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

Alternative forms

• tárka (Przemyśl)

Related terms

adjectives

• tarninowy
• tarniowy

nouns

• tarnina
• tarniówka
• tarnka
• tarń

Further reading

• “tarka”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎^[1] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• “tarka”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[2] (in Polish)

Roria

Noun

tarka

1. water

References

• Tryon, D. T. (1976), New Hebrides languages: An internal classification (Pacific Linguistics; C-50)‎^[3], Canberra, ACT: Pacific Linguistics, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University